Greetings MachineMen Blog Readers!
We here at MachineMen Towers hope your New Year is moving forward gracefully, and plans are afoot for fun!
The kinds of fun we have here are exploring the difficult world of FFT. We have numerous machines both soft and hard which mangle the sound by breaking it down into thousands of sine waves, then doing strange looking maths on it (though this usefully obscured by clever looking technology) and putting it in your ears.
One of the most destructive, or beautiful depending on your perspective, audio plugins available is SpectrumWorx - the tagline is 'the ultimate sound mangler', and I'd say it's fairly high up there with the best of them. SpectrumWorx version 1 was originally released in the early 2000's, and a completely platonic relationship developed with the.. developer. It soon became my secret sonic weapon. Development slowed and the old owner sold the technology to those excellent chaps at Little Endian. I bludgeoned my way through to the beta team from where I have, in my unending belief, added great value to the product!
Some time last year they invited me to submit some presets for the latest release, which I was delighted to work on, and am now very pleased to have these 'sounds' included in the official product.
I say 'sounds'.. in fact it's more like a set of rules to help determine what might sound good through the plugin itself.
And here is what some of those rules sound like:
We hope you enjoyed this short foray into the sound of the future. Come back soon for more mind-bending concepts!
Phonically yours,
Matthew
