Zen !

Just announced Zen on kvr – and I think the feedback has been great so far. People have very legitimate and relevant questions, but with a genuine interest. I’m glad I wasn’t so far off, about about 9 months ago, when I started writing down the Zen requirements: the music software industry is now ready [...]

RhinoCM 2.08 available

Here is a new update for RhinoCM !

RhinoCM fix for Cubase

Couldn’t get RhinoCM to work in CubaseSX ? Here is a solution…

Backup, backup…

Once can never have enough of these… I have nothing but praises for OSX’s built-in Time Machine, but as I’m not carrying my USB drive when traveling, I needed some kind of automated, internet-based solution… I finally ended up using a modified version of this script, it works really well… I feel safer now [...]

Rhino|CM – soon in bookstores !

Here is what has kept me busy for most of the last month – ComputerMusic’s Rhino|CM, a fully-functional streamlined version of Rhino that will be given away in their June issue. This little baby runs on the same engine than his big Rhino brother, with a reduced number of oscillators, filters, and effects. It [...]

Rhino 2.06 upgrade available

Hi Rhinomaniacs, here is a new version of the monster:
version 2.06 adds:
- new spectral editing functions (read about them here)
- new, quick A/D/S/R editing for envelopes.
- next/previous buttons for waveform selection
- UI performance improvements
- Midi activity indicator and panic button
- and the usual bunch of small bug fixes
and yes, the bug with incorrectly [...]

Quick ADSR control of Rhino envelopes

It seems my previous post (the envelope modulation time mini-tutorial) gave away one of the features I have been working on for Rhino 2.06: quick ADSR editing of Rhino envelopes. Did you notice the new A, D, S, R parameters at the top of the envelope window ?
Rhino 2.06 will add 4 new, assignable A, [...]

Envelope Time modulation mini-tutorial

Some users have requested this (maybe the documentation is not clear enough), so here a mini tutorial showing how to make envelope attack time shorter for higher notes.
First define an envelope with 1 second attack, and set the modulation marker (the little downwards pointing triangle) to 20 ms.

and then use the Keyboard Time Modulation curve [...]

Got my domain name back !

so this site can now be accessed either with http://www.bigtick-audio.com, or http://www.bigtickaudio.com.
Still, I hate the fact that I had to pay a lawyer to get my domain name back.

Web site moved, lost a dash

Due to a legal dispute with my website hoster, I had to move to another server. Hopefully the disruption has been minimal, with the only visible consequence being the loss of a dash in the domain name. So yes, we are now http://www.bigtickaudio.com, until the lawyers and judges give me http://www.bigtick-audio.com back. At this [...]

More additive editing options

After playing around with Rhino spectral editing functions yesterday, I wanted to add editing features to directly interact with the actual waveform. Because all of the internal computations are done in the frequency domain, modified waveforms are FFT-analyzed behind the scenes, and then resynthesized using the additive engine – renormalizing and removing any DC offset [...]

Playing with the additive editor

I have been playing around with the additive editor lately, trying to reorganize the spectral edition features, and add more useful ones. Here is a short example, using the “interpolate” option to generate constant harmonics over the full spectrum…

… resulting in an approximation (because we only use 64 harmonics) of an infinite spike at the [...]

VST Feng Shui

Rule number 1: get rid of the clutter
Over the years I have written a number of vst synths and effects, many of which are now part of the vst history, dating back from the very first days of Steinberg’s sdk. They were proud companions of Neon or Pro-52 in the software arsenal of computer musicians [...]

A journey of a thousand miles…

… begins with a single step.
so here we are… taking that dreaded first step… with a first post in the blog, a new website, a new Rhino version, and of course, many new ideas for future products… so watch this space, fellow musician – and feel free to leave feedback !