Hello. I'd like to make a thread for all the wannabe artists out there looking for new plugins. If you have any recommendations or favourites that you'd like to discuss, please do so in this thread. If this doesn't belong here, please move it to General Discussion.
- magical8bitplugin: Pretty straightforward plugin for chiptune stuff. Comes with square, triangle, noise, 25% pulse and 12.5% pulse oscillators with about half a dozen other typical parameters (attack, release, sweep switch etc). If trackers make you recoil in fear and disgust like me, I suggest giving this a shot.
Plogue Chipsounds: It's magical8bitplugin with buttons and knobs everywhere and it's not freeware, oh my lordy. This is actually a whole bunch of emulators of sound chips from various game consoles. I just installed it today and it's really interesting to hear the variations on basic tones. Only bothersome thing about it is that the chip names are generic and the only indication you have of the console it is from is the silhouette that appears when you select it. Oh well, I'm sure there's a corresponding list somewhere.
CMT Bitcrusher: It makes your music sound shitty; this seems to be a fundamental aspect of glitch music. I'm looking for recommendations on any more complex bitcrushers as this one is rather simple.
Melodyne: Nifty pitch correction tool that can also do lots of other funky things to audio. What I like most about this is that upon importing an audio file, it maps the waveform out on a piano roll style grid, allowing you to both see a melody roughly as if it were notated out for you and move chunks of sound on the fly to different pitches and rhythms. I've not used it extensively yet, but I'm looking forward to making good use of it. For what it's worth, it's available as a standalone editor and a plugin too.
