“The “KVR Developer Challenge 2009 ” is for anyone who develops audio plug-ins or applications (i.e. a “developer”). The challenge is to create and release a brand new free audio plug-in or audio application that will benefit the community at large.”

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Today is my birthday and so I bought myself a little present.
The new Plogue Chipsounds VST Synth.

More VSTs

“chipsounds simulates the following sound chips at a never before reached level of authenticity in a software synthesizer:2A03, AY-3-8910, DMG-CPU, P8244, POKEY, SID, SN76489, TIA, UVI and the VIC-I.

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Powered by Plogue/Garritan’s ARIA virtual instrument engine, chipsounds reproduces the idiosyncrasies of the most sought-after classic sound chips, including their most well-known variations, as sonically accurate as possible without adding any non-authentic aliasing or DSP artifacts.”

chipsounds – 8bit Test1 by soundseller
chipsounds – 8bit Test2 by soundseller

Sounds interesting.

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Finally the new Empirical Labs Fatso (Tape simulation&Compressor) emulation by Universal Audio has arrived.

Unfortunately it only works with the new UAD-2 cards

That’s a bummer.

Well, I was kind of expecting this to happen.

I hope I will still get a decent price for my UAD-1 cards on ebay and also that they are already working on a Distressor emulation.

Friedemann Tischmeyer, German mastering engineer and musician, wants to put an end to the “loudness war”.

For the last 3 decades recordings have become more and more compressed.

One of the reasons for this can be found in the fact, that if listened to the same track at a higher volume the track will most likeley sound better to the human ear than at lower volumes.

This has ended in a never ending spiral producing totally over-compressed records which lack dynamic range and are distorted if played in the radio or converted to lossy formats like mp3.

He founded the “Pleasurize Music Foundation“.

Its aim is to:

” … improve the sound quality of music in its various recorded formats – including data compression methods such as MP3 – as well as music destined for radio broadcast…”

This is supposed to be achieved by musicians/producers/engineers who voluntarily refuse to over compress their records/music.

For this reason Tischmeyer also released a VST Plugin called “TT Dynamic Range Meter” which can be used as a reference during mixing/mastering.

A similar approach has also been made by Bob Katz some time ago when he promoted the K-Metering System.

Let’s hope that he/we will succeed in bringing back “life” to the music.

If one wants loud music we should use the volume control.

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