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The Best Free Audio Analyzers

Posted by on Mar 12, 2011 in Music, Sound design | 5 comments

The Best Free Audio Analyzers

When doing Sound design or mixdowns, it’s important to know which part of the spectrum is being used by a channel. Working with a analyzer makes it easier to group audio into one channel and control your mix better, without losing an overview. It allows you to work with subtractive EQing on a much more accurate level and keep an eye on your db scale across the spectrum if you have a good analyzer. Lucky for us there is a big choice in the freeware department, among commercial and open source developers alike. A round up, in no particular order: Roger Nichols Inspector Roger Nichols...

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reFuse Releases Free Synth “Swarm”

Posted by on Mar 8, 2011 in Blog, Sound design | 0 comments

The makers of the excellent sub harmonic synth Lowender now come with a free synth based on the Swarmatron. Most of the other freebies on the website are only for the now defunct pluggo by Cycling74. The Swarm is based around a bank of eight oscillators that start out tuned in unison. Using the Span knob, you can continuously stretch out that cluster of notes from unison to, at the widest setting, evenly spaced harmonic multiples. Along the way, all kinds of dissonant tones and beat frequencies are created. We have released The Swarm as a standalone application only. It is not available as a...

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