AudioEase Releases Rocket Science MAS Plug-In
Bundle
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Roger
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Follo
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Orbit
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July 2, 1999
Macintosh audio software makers AudioEase, winners of Key Buy, Top Tool, 4.5
mice, and other awards, have released the Rocket Science Bundle: three real time
audio plug-ins, exclusively for MOTU's Performer product line.
These plug-ins have a unique sound, they can be MIDI controlled, and the Rocket
Science Bundle is sold on-line, at US$199, at AudioEase's revamped website www.audioease.com.
Working demos can be found there as well.
Roger
Multiple Gender Vowel Bank
You can apply human vowel filters to your audio with Roger. Use the vowel
bar at the bottom to click through the vowels and click the portrait to select
one of the Roger family members.
Portamento controls the transition speed between vowels, and the 'sharpness'
of the vowel is controlled by the bandwidth parameter. Make the Roger family talk
rhythmic random nonsense using Auto and Tempo. Roger is MIDI controllable from
your MIDI keyboard or from recorded MIDI data on the sequencers tracks.
Follo
Energy Driven Band Booster
Follo dynamically adjusts the peak of a resonating bandpass filter according
to the level of the incoming audio. The blue slider is the target for high amplitude
audio. The yellow slider is the target for low amplitude audio. The moving ball
indicates where the resonators peak is, the bandwidth determines how wide and
resonating the band is, and the release determines the rate at which the peak
falls back to the yellow slider. The analysis knob offers control over the sensitivity
of the ball. Applications of Follo include an autowah on a guitar, and a thumping
resonating bass generator when the ball clips at the blue slider.
Besides a Mono to Mono Follo there is a Stereo to Stereo Follo that uses identical
settings to treat both channels of stereo input. But you should really try the
Mono to Stereo Follo, especially on sounds like (synth) basses . It can do some
pretty weird things to your stereo image. Roger is MIDI controllable from your
MIDI keyboard or from recorded MIDI data on the sequencers tracks.
Orbit
Psycho Acoustic Flight Path Simulator
Orbit lets you control the virtual position of your sound source. It accurately
calculates the sound source's reflections of the walls of a virtual 'outer room',
using the exact amount of delay and attenuation for the direct sound and all reflections
alike. It is a plug-in of the Mono To Stereo kind.
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Orbit
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You can use Orbit merely as a physically correct panning device, or you can
use it as a flight path simulator that offers control over your position, the
speed and location of the source, the size of the virtual space and the absorption
of high frequencies by the walls. For direct sound and all reflections, Orbit
will precisely emulate the Doppler effect so that pitch will shift up when a sound
(or a reflection) comes at you, and will shift down when it moves away.
The light blue small room is the room you are in. You can drag it up and down
in the outer room, its size is determined by the speaker span parameter. The tiled
surface is the outer room, that is adjusted with the room size parameter. The
red ball is the sound source.
The motion selector lets you choose between a static source or one that follows
a path set by clicks in the outer room. The source can also follow an adjustable
oval, or it can just fly about like Buck Rogers on LSD.
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