Speaking of SonicCouture, got an email from them the other day, which explains what they’ve been up to lately:

Yes, yes. We know we said we couldn’t do it. We know we said EXS didn’t support the number of samples required for Hang Drum.

But. We have simply separated out some of the articulations to their own EXS patch, and all is well. Hang lives and breathes from within Logic.

This effects me not a whit, but it shows their commitment to their products. And this definitely means you’ll be hearing a lot of hang drum in the upcoming year.

I don’t have Logic so no screen cap for you.

RE:
Scriptorium Instruments

I must find out if it’s possible to distribute custom scriptorium instruments, and the logistics of getting it into the hands of licensed scriptorium users. Sort of like, “You own this sample library; you own scriptorium. Here’s some instruments.” Or if I was to use my own samples (unlikely).

I’m taking a sorta working vacation. So my I’m trying to confine my internet usage to actual work (ha!). But Chris posted about this yesterday and it’s too cool to let pass unremarked. I swear, it’s like Chris & Adam get together and decide how they can get me all atwitter.¹

I’ll admit that I knew nothing about “The Game of Life” (other than it was a board game from the 70s that always seemed to be missing a significant portion of its game pieces). Well, from what I can gather, this is similar to that, but musically useful; i.e. not just a mathematical algorithms spewing out random glitches.

But, even before it’s properly announced it’s been an educational experience. It’s been like Ugo’s ultra-classy M-Theory in that regard: when I first heard the title I had no idea about M-Theory, so one trip to Wikipedia later and I’m a little wiser. Not much, but a little.

^{1That sounds really gay, hun?}

I’ve been enjoying relative new-comer blog, Waveformless. Author “Tom” offers up reviews, tips and general news, as well as an interesting mix of musical ephemera from around the tubes. And, yes, some very nice amateur gear porn.

Feed it into your reader and I’m sure you’ll find yourself clicking through more than occasionally.

Every once in a while on a forum or blog some one gets around to asking, “What was the first commercial plugin you bought?” I suppose it’s something like junkies describing their first fix, or remembering your first cigarette or beer: a mixture of nostalgia, reverence, and regret.

If my email archive is to be trusted, aside from Vintage Warmer and M-Tron, my earliest plugin purchase were a couple synths from Muon Software. And, to be frank, I didn’t get much use out of them; I think shortly afterward I got Rhino, impOSCar and Albino in short order and I sort of began to learn synths through them.

I hadn’t thought much about ‘em other than to wonder why they went so quiet. Now they’re better know for developing a few of the ComputerMusic Suite of software instruments, which is probably what persuaded me to buy them. I guess I softa just figured they went a lot of smaller music developers go.

Come to find out, via the noble Rekkerd.org, that are they not only still chugging along, but recently updated there commercial plugins.

I wrote them about updating, since the info they had on me was from an entirely different web era, and they quickly got back to me with new software.

I guess it’s time to take these for another spin.