Our new reverb plug-in Reverence is enjoying a very warm welcome in the marketplace. It’s selling like crazy–it’s broken all of our first-days-of-sales records by a factor of two or more–and the buyers love it. There’s a nice review here at the Create Digital Music website.
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Audio Damage Releases Reverence Reverb
I’m pleased to announce a new Audio Damage product, available today. It’s called Reverence; it’s a reverberation plug-in which recreates the effects typical of 1980s-vintage digital emulations of plate reverbs. (Yes, that makes it a software version of an electronic imitation of an electro-mechanical simulation of acoustic reverberation.) It has both their lush sound and fast & easy user interface. You can read more about it, listen to samples, and buy it at the Audio Damge website.
Audio Damage in Electronic Musician Magazine
Audio Damage products are the topic of this month’s “Download of the Month” column in the September issue of Electronic Musician. The author mostly talks about Discord but mentions several of our other products also. I kind of wish he hadn’t described DubStation as “a very basic feedback-delay [sic] line” since that’s sort of like describing a contemporary Volkswagen Beetle as a very basic automobile. On the other hand I’m listed as “DSP wizard”. Maybe I should put that on my business cards.
Audio Damage T-Shirt Spotted
Nice photo here of some loyal customer. We didn’t print many of those. Chris is working on a design for a new one, I think, but it kind of takes back seat to our other projects. We are a software company and not a clothing design house, after all.
Audio Damage Plug-in Featured in Computer Music Magazine
I keep forgetting to mention this, but thanks to the lag in distribution time for UK magazines in the US it’s still relevant. The July issue of Computer Music magazine has a free Audio Damage plug-in on its DVD-ROM, and the magazine itself has a three-page article on how to use it. Buying the magazine is the only way to obtain this plug-in; we made an arrangement with CM to give them exclusive distribution rights for it.
CM is my current favorite music-tech magazine, and not just because of our relationship with them. The magazine content has an enthusiastic and unpretentious tone, the technique articles are full of genuinely useful advice, and I can’t help but be amused by the occasional Britishisms of language. The cover DVD contains software that’s actually useful (instead of just demo versions you can download from the web yourself) as well as a big pile of samples that’s different each month. It doesn’t have quite the critical and technical depth of Sound on Sound but it’s much more worthwhile than Keyboard (which I’ve given up on altogether) and usually more interesting than Electronic Musician.
Announcing Discord 2
Audio Damage is pleased to announce the release of Discord 2, the new and much improved version of our popular pitch shifter plug-in. Although this one took longer than we expected, it was worth it. I’m really pleased with how it came out, and initial reports from our customers are quite positive.
You can read all about it, hear audio demos, download the manual, and buy it at the Audio Damage site. It’s $49 or $10 if you own a previous version. I can honestly say that there is nothing like it for even three times the price, and nothing like it at all in the host-based plug-in market.
The Calm After the Storm
I’ve been working away on Discord 2 recently–and not so recently, given how long it’s turning out to take. Sometimes our projects come together easily, and sometimes they fight me every step of the way. This one is falling on the latter end of the spectrum, but we’re finally in the home stretch now.
All of the features and tricky bits of DSP were sorted out in a VST version, but the AU version has been particularly problematic. I spent days beating my head against a series of very perplexing misbehaviors. Things were crashing in really odd ways for no readily apparent reason. I finally found the fundamental error late yesterday; it was, of course, a mistake that seemed terribly stupid in retrospect but eluded me for days. It’s always sort of an odd realization to find an answer like that. There’s joy and relief, of course, but also a bit of frustration with having spent so much time chasing wild geese that had nothing to do with the actual error. It creates a few moments of strange calmness, and then I fix the stupid thing and move forward with whatever it was I was trying to do in the first place.
Blog Open Again, Sort Of
While there is no evidence here, I’ve been spending some time on this website again. I downloaded the 30-day trial of Dreamweaver and started building a new site with it. It’s a very nice program, but I came to a few conclusions. First, it’s way more than I need in terms of site design. It does all sorts of neat stuff, much of which I’ll never use and can’t be bothered to learn. Second, I now find site design and construction to be deadly dull work. I mean, it’s so screamingly dull that I can’t stand it. If I wanted to build web sites, I’d still be working as a web engineer for Rational Software. Third, given what I have in mind for my web site, I really need some sort of active-content thing. I need to be able to add articles, news items, and random little things (like this). I don’t want to have to fire up Dreamweaver just to post something about how the honeysuckle we planted last year has lots of leaf buds on it now (which it does), particularly since Dreamweaver’s license won’t let me put it on every computer in the house. Fourth, I can’t quite see spending $400 on Dreamweaver, given the previous points.
Blog Closed
After reading my last post, and then noticing that most of my last half-dozen or so posts all lean in a somewhat negative direction, I’ve decided to officially abandon this blog until further notice. My mother once told me “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” I think she was being somewhat sarcastic at the time, but I also think that there’s some truth to it that’s relevant here. If the only thing I’m going to use this blog for is complaining, then there’s little point to it. You can find any number of complaints elsewhere; there’s no need for me to add to the vast amount of complaining going on in the world these days. The original idea was to use this blog to tell my family and friends what I’m up to, and it’s clearly not serving that purpose since I put much more into email to family and friends than I put here. It’s never been in my nature to keep a diary, despite many attempts at many times throughout my life, and a blog is more or less the same thing, made public. It’s even less in my nature to keep a public diary.
Oh yeah, I just love being a third-party Apple developer
Okay, so the new version of Logic, Apple’s flagship $999 music recording package, shipped recently. It’s a little odd that it shipped so quickly after NAMM, since Apple was showing a pre-release version at that show. Kinda makes one wonder about how much testing it received, no?
The most significant thing about this release is that it runs as a Universal Binary, of course. Since we (Audio Damage) sell AudioUnit products, we duitifully set about updating our stuff to be Universal Binary. The developer release notes for Logic indicated that there have been changes–yet again–to the manner in which Logic hosts AudioUnits.