Re: (idm) Mac Audio Software...

From martin wheeler
Sent Thu, Mar 26th 1998, 07:53

>unfortunately hyperprism seems to be the best real-time commerical 
>software for dicking with pitch via a graphic interface, although there 
>may be shareware programs i've never heard of. actually, i've gotten some 
>interesting scratching-sounding stuff with sound designer 2's scrub mode 
>while fucking around at work. there are other programs which emulate 
>turntable-ish slow downs or speed-ups, but i don't know of any that work 
>in real time.

Absolutely. SD 2's scrub mode is great for this (though you do have the 
limitation of it being ram-based to contend with) but for shortish 
'digital scratching' it's quite cool.

To   
>emulate turntable-ish slow downs or speed-ups,
there is an Audiosuite plug-in for ProTools called Vari-Fi (from 
Digidesign) that does just this, unfortunately it does ONLY that. It is 
supposed to emulate a TT slow-down and you can't 
vary the rate of slowdown / speed-up, or scratch or whatever. But if you 
are looking for an 'authentic' TT slow-down it might do the job (i 
haven't played with it much)

martin wheeler
paris
france

ps - attention, shameless plug follows. 
For an example of excessive use of SD 2 scrub-based digital scratching, 
check out the 'Hornithology' track on 
Rhys Chatham & Martin Wheeler 'NEON', Ntone Records: NTONE CDS15