From: Dominique Bassal (dominique.bassal@videotron.ca)
Date: Thu May 20 2010 - 11:43:52 EDT
There is nothing really new in Deep Freq. Excerpts from the manual :
In Finite Wire, the signal is first passed through a phaser and a
granular pitch-shifter/delay, where the idea is that the resonances of
the phaser are transposed in the pitch-shifter, before
being fed into an instance of the (...) Next, the signal is sent to a
reverb for sweetening, and a low-shelf EQ for cleaning up any
excessive low-frequency content generated by the pitch-shifters,
before reaching the the dry/wet crossfade. A low-cut and a limiter
make up the final output stage.
Most of these manipulations have been around for decades, and the
means to interconnect them too. Even the Atari had it. The question is
to do these transformations while keeping sound quality, and that's
another story. What today's faster CPU permit is either have more
manipulations, or have cleaner manipulations. The latter is rare : a
line of German DSP hardware went into bankrupcy, just to reappear very
recently. There is quality DSP in the Metric Halo hardware, but the
units are sold as audio interfaces and ADA converters. In short, no
interest from the public, no push from the industry, supposedly in
that order. Have EA institutions made their effort by promoting this
kind of approach? I don't know. What I know is that NI is launching
package after package of the more philosophy.
The result is distorsion, which is a marketed cult nowadays - for
economic reasons? - but needs serious doses of stylistic pre-
approbation to be physically accepted by most ears. The linked Burial
example relies on heavy LP filtering to mask the distorsion - exactly
as Massive Attack did before - but this leads to a very limited sound
palette.
The real, long-term, wide-open creative solution would be in much more
sophisticated transformation tools. We're not there yet... Just watch
the new sonicWorx : high quality, expensive, offline. Will it survive?
The OS9 attempt did not.
Best
¥ ∆ ¥
Dominique Bassal
Le 10-05-20 à 09:33, Kevin Austin a écrit :
>
> To me it seems the floodgates are opening a little more on the
> [traditional] [academic] ea environment. The NI plugs and processors
> along with dance- game-based controlers are making 'making ea music'
> much easier for everyone who wants to do it. University laptop
> orchestras can be formed virtually at the drop of the hat. What will
> the academic ea community be doing in five or ten years time? Will
> it make sense to focus on the history of ea from the late-40s to the
> late 70s? Will ea in university follow the path of jazz studies and
> early music programs and become 'museum disciplines'?
>
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
> http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/powered-by-
> kore/deep-freq/?
> utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=deepfreq+en
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Native Instruments <noreply@newsletter.native-instruments.com>
>> Date: 2010 May 20 7:18:57 AM EDT
>> Subject: Brand-New Multi-Effects: DEEP FREQ Out Now!
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
>>
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