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A couple of years back I mentioned here that Raymond Scott’s son was producing a documentary film about his father. There’s a website about the film here, including information about ordering it on DVD. I haven’t seen it yet; my copy is on the way. Tweet

We’ve released an update to Axon, numbered version 1.1.1. If you have either version 1.0 or 1.1 you should get this update. It corrects a fairly annoying problem with Axon’s synchronization to the DAW’s transport which (cough, cough) was introduced in version 1.1 when we added the reset-on-stop feature. (Yeah, I know. Sorry. However, I [...]

We’ve just released an update to Replicant, our wildly popular (and popularly wild) beat-slicing/mangling plug-in. Version 1.5 gives Replicant a user-interface makeover (replacing the moldy look of the original version, as Chris called it), adds triggering with MIDI note messages, and MIDI control to the AudioUnit version. The MIDI triggering is quite fun, if I [...]

There’s a nice review of Discord 3 here. It’s one of the few I’ve read that takes the time to put the product in historical context. If you’ve ever wondered why we build pitch shifters that aren’t attempted Auto-Tune clones, the review contains the answer. Tweet

Chris has completed the first of several planned tutorial videos about Axon: Tweet

It’s new! It’s different! It’s somewhat strange! It’s Axon, Audio Damage’s latest product. Axon is a VST and AU plug-in that combines a set of FM-based percussion synthesizers with a novel sequencer design we call the Neuron Sequencer. Essentially it’s a set of counters that trigger each other, creating complex and sometimes unpredictable (but not [...]

The other day I said something to Chris about the software I was currently working on being “obstreperous” without entirely remembering what that word actually means. As he observed, it’s actually a rather apt term for DSP code in development. From Webster’s: Function: adjective Etymology: Latin obstreperus, from obstrepere to clamor against, from ob- against [...]

After the total loss of my Apple development environment (requiring a completely new install of OS X and the developer tools on a bare hard drive), the near-total loss of Chris’s Windows development environment, various unexpected snags on both platforms related to building the installers, the demise of my cat, and all of the usual [...]

There’s a remarkably thorough comparison of three drum-machine plug-ins here. The guy compares key features of Tattoo, AudioRealism’s ADM, and Sonic Charge’s MicroTonic. As Chris said on his blog, one ends up concluding that one needs all of them, although personally I was never completely taken with MicroTonic’s sound. Tweet

There’s a good review here of Tattoo. Besides being fairly comprehensive, I think it’s the first review of our stuff I’ve ever read in which the documentation is mention. I thank the reviewer for this; I do try to make our manuals both thorough and at least somewhat interesting, even though Chris tells me that [...]