23 Jun
2004
23 Jun
'04
5:06 p.m.
Tom,
I just tried out the vocal doubler. Wow! That is exactly what I was
looking for. All of a sudden it sounds like I actually have a half
decent voice. Now I'm going to have to read the documentation so I can
figure out what all of the settings are for ;-) Oh, BTW, it sounds
great on harmonica too. Many thanks.
Jan
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 13:12, Tom Szilagyi wrote:
TAP-plugins 0.6.0 released.
TAP Reverb Editor initially released.
Homepage: http://tap-plugins.sf.net
OK, here we go:
* New plugin: TAP Fractal Doubler. Suitable for doubling tracks
containing vocals, acoustic/electric guitars, bass and just about
any other instrument. The effect is created by applying small
changes to the pitch and timing of the incoming signal. The changes
are created by a one-dimensional random fractal line producing pink
noise. Special thanks to Jan Depner for suggesting this plugin and
pointing me to useful information about fractals.
* New plugin: TAP Reflector. This plugin creates a psychedelic reverse
audio effect. It is especially worth trying this plugin on sustained
guitar and vocal tracks. Percussive sounds also create a very
characteristic atmosphere when played in a backward-ish style.
* New plugin: TAP Pink/Fractal Noise. This plugin came to life as a
secondary product of the development of TAP Fractal Doubler. It
generates pink noise by means of a one-dimensional random fractal
line generated by the midpoint displacement method.
Yes, it's Reverb time again!
* Vastly enhanced the internal workings of TAP Reverberator. As a
result, the sonic quality of reverberation got much better. (Well,
at least, now it *IS* real reverberation.) If you tried it once,
and found it sounded like hell, you definitely need to check it out
now!
* Long-long-standing denormal float (or whatever) problems causing
occasional runaway CPU-usage led to the complete re-implementation
of the internal DSP algorithm of the reverb using fixed-point
arithmetics. This inherently fixes denormal problems. However, the
option to use the previous floating-point DSP code remains as a
#define which you can set before compiling. The default is to use
fixed-point math. Very special thanks to Jan Depner for spending his
time with repeatedly testing the reverb and sharing his insights.
* A new application named TAP Reverb Editor has been written. It is a
standalone JACK app, with a GTK+-2 user interface. It works and
sounds the same as the LADSPA version (TAP Reverberator), but has
extended features that support direct editing of Reverb Types, with
immediate visual and sonic feedback. You can design new Reverb Types
easily, and 'backporting' these into the LADSPA version is also a
breeze. This program is available as a separate package called
TAP-reverbed.
* Introducing some new Reverb Types:
I made these for some acoustic guitar tracks:
* Ambience
* Ambience (Thick)
* Ambience (Thick) - HD
...and these for fun:
* Cathedral
* Cathedral - HD
Other changes:
* TAP Dynamics plugins (both Mono and Stereo) were also affected by a
runaway CPU-usage issue. It was fixed in the same way as with the
reverb: by converting the internals to use fixed point math by
default. (The #define option to use floating point math still
remains.)
* Applied patch from Luke Yelavich to clean up the Makefile a bit.
* Complete website/docs redesign. The documentation for TAP-plugins
and the user manual for TAP Reverb Editor is now available for
download as a separate package called TAP-plugins-doc.
Hope you enjoy this release. Please report any problems.
Tom