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Originally Posted by TweakHead
I was blown away with the IRIS's videos, and I'm pretty much used to sample editing and crazy sound design within the daw. There's one thing that needs mentioning here, they have this special technology for pitch shifting that works wonders, unlike most pitch shifting plug-ins on the market, it gives you a very natural feel without the usual artificial sounding artifacts (but sometimes this is just the sound we want eheh, I'm thinking that cubase's time stretch has become a trademark in psytrance...And it sounds cheap and alien like artificial). Think of something like the Eventide H3000 hardware (and there's a plug-in version of that that I'm interested in... do you guys knew about that? interesting times indeed), in that it allows you to time stretch stuff and keep it sounding natural. Ever heard of the Harmonizer effect? 
http://izotope.com/products/audio/radius/
this is what I'm talking about. there's only support for the two daws mentioned, because it really integrates with it, but sounds wonderful. Because when you get into special treatment of samples, be it vocals or whatever, you want really pristine sounding fx...
But yeah, I also use my Virus as an fx unit. Have a stereo output from a channel on the daw that goes into the Virus's Inputs, just for that. If I eventually get the Korg-MS 20, I'm thinking that running even a vocal sample through it and patching craziness on tops would produce out of this world effect... And I'm a Logic user, really happy with it. But I also play with Ableton sometimes, it begun with an interest for a Live interface (also came with my sl remote mk2) and later got more interested in its features and sometimes use the rewire thing on that |
JUST like the original, the new MS20 has the best in my memory in analog vocoding capabilities as well. Guess will have to take a look at that free version of Ableton because there are some rather cool interfaces for it as well if I like the workflow immediately. I was not aware of a VST of Harmonizer but I would hope it's MUCH more economic that say the hardware Harmonizer units that used are over thousand usd...EEEK! Am not necessarily heavy user of effects, more reverb on individual on and off channels using the A and B effects send/return on my hardware mixer that is more of a pre-mixer (as I call it) to then- feed into audio interface. May have mentioned this but learned about these Kawai MX8 mixer rack units that are indeed called even Keyboard Mixers that has a signal-totally-unrelated midi in and three midi-thru, serving VERY convenient puirpose of a midi merge and locality of it in my 'U-shaped' set-up, which if on the right side of the Capital 'U' extend straight line-up and that goes alone wall to my computer desk at an angle in corner where computers are---having that midi thru located more or less at bottome-middle part of the 'U-Shape', has made a great nexus and bought two of them used for less than $100. collectively, and use one to sum the four stereo outputs of the 2 MEK's and the Evolver Desktops polychained to them because they have different output volumes inherent intelligently design, so that allows me to use primarily different reverbs selectively on mixer when and where want it. Evolver series has three different places (at once if want) you can use the delay parameter in signal of each of 4 Osc's, and it has Distortion but no reverb and reverb used intelligently (not overused) really adds ambience.
There IS seemingly an overuse of a type of "time-stretch effect" that *can* seem to get overused just like that predelay with high pass filter on a vocal every since I think Cher of all people, kind of started that effect being used to adnauseum!
I won a giveaway at some point early last year of a Zoom R24 (look up specs) and although has no midi, recording onto up to 32GB SDHC cards in .wav format, supposedly are able to bring those files directly into a DAW and drop in. It works as a pad sampler, able to record 8 tracks at a time, WHILE playing back tracks and recording same time...very versatile piece and has just one pair stereo outputs and 6 of the 8 inputs have preamps avail...ever hear of it? It supposedly works as an audio interface as well so if this AVID Fast Track C600 USB audio/midi interface is a pain is ass will try that before spending cash on another interface because if I do, want to fully use my Firewire or USB 3 for low to no latency.
Sorry a bit jumpy from different topics--am entertaining a toothache and cannot get in until Feb 5 and pain is too close to brain!! EEK! Tweakhead--how do utilize midi in your set-up, if at all? The Virus has like three different midi config's types, which I really have never read of ANY other synths having such versatile set-ups avail like Virus B or C. Admitedly, am still wrapping my head around deeper properties of midi and have a used thick master book coming from ebay next week. Wondering what, if any config you found works most intuitively--that's how my rather right-brained mind rolls--intuitively. Thanks!