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SoundThread is a cross-platform user interface for The Composers Desktop Project (CDP) suite of sound manipulation tools. It allows for modular style routing of various CDP processes to quickly build up complex Threads that allow for extensive sound manipulation. The goal of SoundThread is to make CDP as user friendly as possible and it is particularly well suited to those new to experimental sound processing.

What works already?

SoundThread is currently in Beta and as such there are some bugs, missing features and limitations. However, it is mostly very stable and has enough implemented already to be a powerful sound design tool.

Currently implemented features:
– Node based patching system with support for patching parallel processes and mixing outputs
– A selection of over 100 popular CDP time domain and frequency domain processes:
– Automation of values using automatically generated Breakpoint Files based on drawn in automation data
– Windows, Mac and Linux builds
– Accepts stereo or mono input files (splits and merges files as needed to run the full processing Thread)
– Threads can be saved and loaded for reuse
– Small suite of built in getting started tutorials
– Help tooltips and detailed help files throughout
– Recycle output button to reuse output file for further processing
– Optional automatic clean up of intermediate files
– Customisable colour schemes

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SoundThread 0.3.0 Win  ( 337 MB )

SoundThread 0.3.0 MAC  ( 117 MB )

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Sinner is provided as is and is an older plugin for Windows that I was playing around with a good few years back. I haven’t put together a manual for this and am providing it with no guarantees.

64 bit Windows plugin effect. Simply download and place the DLL into your plugins folder to install Sinner.

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DB_Sinner  ( 19 MB )

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zam-plugins is a collection of LV2/LADSPA/VST/JACK audio plugins for sound processing developed in-house at ZamAudio. The default settings and almost every slider is calibrated to standard ranges. A big thankyou to falktx for writing Distrho Plugin Framework. It has enabled me to make these GUIs for zam-plugins quickly and neatly. Also thanks to mira, nphilipp, adi, edogawa and Haskellfant who helped package the software for different distros!

Plugins:

ZaMaximX2:

One of the best plugins in the series, this acts as a brickwall limiter for mastering in its default state, but can also be tweaked to raise the average level as a stereo maximizer without ever clipping. Sounds musical even with rough treatment. (Based on DSP found in a DAFX’02 paper).

ZamAutoSat:

An automatic saturation plugin, has been known to provide smooth levelling to live mic channels.
You can apply this plugin generously without affecting the tone.

ZamComp:

A powerful mono compressor strip. Adds real beef to a kick or snare drum with the right settings.

ZamCompX2:

Stereo version of ZamComp with knee slew control.

ZamEQ2:

Two band parametric equaliser with high and low shelving circuits.

ZamGEQ31:

31 band graphic equaliser, good for eq of live spaces, removing unwanted noise from a track etc.

ZamHeadX2:

HRTF acoustic filtering plugin for directional sound.

ZamPhono:

A collection of phono filters for restoring vinyl records, or preparing to cut new ones.

ZamGate:

Gate plugin for ducking low gain sounds.

ZamGateX2:

Gate plugin for ducking low gain sounds, stereo version.

ZamTube:

Wicked distortion effect. Wave digital filter physical model of a triode tube amplifier stage, with modelled tone stacks from real guitar amplifiers (thanks D. Yeh et al).

ZamDelay:

A simple feedback delay unit with sync-to-host BPM feature and filter.

ZamDynamicEQ:

A dynamic equalizer that changes its gain based on detecting a narrow band of frequencies. Can be tuned to alter other frequency ranges on-the-fly.

ZaMultiComp:

Mono multiband compressor, with 3 adjustable bands.

ZaMultiCompX2:

Flagship of zam-plugins:
Stereo version of ZaMultiComp, with individual threshold controls for each band and real-time visualisation of comp curves.

Ever since I got the ZaMultiCompX2 plugin, I have never used (other) compressor. It has independent gain control attack and release with knee makes it versatile and superior. You can make it a dinosaurs and eat up annoying frequency and use it as a way of EQ.

ZamVerb, ZamNoise and ZamSynth:

zam-plugins-4.3-win64  ( 105 MB )

zam-plugins-4.3-win32  ( 119 MB )

zam-plugins-4.3-macos-universal  ( 200 MB )

zam-plugins-4.3-macos-intel  ( 119 MB )

zam-plugins-4.3-linux-x86_64  ( 37 MB )

zam-plugins-4.3-linux-riscv64.  ( 38 MB )

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Darvaza is a multichannel gate with a twist : whenever the gate closes on your input signal, you get a perversion of your source spat back at you. It can however work as a time synchronized classic tremolo too.

The gate uses different waveforms and its individually tunable oscillators are synchronized to the host tempo and time signature. When the gate closes and you have tweaked it to return a signal during the closed state, you get a signal based on your input, but with a plethora of things having gone wrong with it.

Basically you get your incoming sound as if it was part of a bad dream. But take solace in the fact that it’s a lucid bad dream, over which you have full control.

If you wish to hear the plugins sound design qualities in action, Darvaza is the leading effect on Drosophelia’s Instar.

Blending and randomizing

The “Entry”-control is analogous to “dry mix”. By default this is set to zero which mutes the sound when the gate is closed (functioning like a standard tremolo). By increasing the dry mix you can hear the original signal unaffected whenever the gate is closed.

The “Rand”-control is a modifier that allows you to set an alternative gate duration (from 2 measures to a 16th note). Every half measure the gate will be set to this duration. The moment when this kicks in is handled individually by each channel.

Slowdown…

To add an additional twist on the ears, using the “Sorrow”-control you can control the playback speed of the gated signal.

Changing the playback speed will also affect the pitch of the gated signal, by adjusting the speed carefully you can create harmonies between the uneffected source and gated signal. Resetting the control to zero will re-align the gated signal with the input, making it possible to create time synchronized “tape / vinyl scratch” slowdown without missing a beat.

Controls

Darvaza’s UI is a little vague by intention, the plugin is aimed at sound design through experimentation and happy accidents. However, for those who DO wish to know what is happening under the hood, dive into this brief explanation of the controls:

Gate controls

The “Odd”- and “Even”-controls allow you to tweak the duration of the gate’s open/close cycle all the way from 4 measures down to a 16th note, per channel. The “Sync”-control will match all channels to match the Odd-speed.

By using the “Door”-control you can change the waveform shape from a sine through triangle and sawtooth to a square wave.

Degrading and freezing

The “Regret”-control allows you to control the sample rate of the gated signal. This goes from the current host sample rate down to a gravelly 2 kHz.

The “Dwell”-control activates a reverb on the gated signal. The reverb will “freeze” its sound every beat to add an additional shimmer where the frozen signal will contain the timbre and pitch of the input, but will sounds a nightmarish cloud of evil.
Ticking the “Recast”-control will reverse playback of the gated sound.

… and repitch

If you wish to have more control over the pitches of the gated signal, you can use the “Weep” control which will adjust the playback speed to perfect harmonic pitch intervals (with distinct pitches between the channels). When the control is at zero, it is disabled. By opening it up it will travel between six different scales : major, mixolydian, augmented (happy), via neutral (5th and minor 2nd) to minor and diminished (sad/melancholic and evil).

Note that using Weep overrides the effect of the Sorrow control.

The archive contains VST2 and VST3 plugins for both macOS (10.10/Yosemite and higher) and Windows (7 and up). Additionally macOS users can also use Darvaza as an Audio Unit.

Installation instructions are provided inside the archive’s README file. Note macOS users should be aware of possible Gatekeeper issues.
Linux packages are currently not provided, though you can build from source.

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darvaza.1.0.3  ( 11 MB )