Software

[WhiteWarlock]

ChaosChimp

ChaosChimp is an audio effect plugin designed to cause problems for your sequencer. Seriously! Itxe2x80x99s inspired by Netflixxe2x80x99s ChaosMonkey, which was built under the philosophy that instead of hoping bad things never happen, they should be forced to happen often so that one is better prepared for them.

ChaosChimp User Interface
Why On Earth??

Why would someone want to run this plugin? To be fair, ChaosChimp should probably not be used on stage. But it should be used during practice and preparation sessions.

Ixe2x80x99ve seen many headlining DJxe2x80x99s let down by their gear onstage. I wonxe2x80x99t name any names, but letxe2x80x99s just say that it can happen to the best of us. In some cases, they just slammed their laptop in disgust and walked off the stage. Other times, the sound technician had to frantically mute the house speakers to prevent feedback or satan saws (a cruel term for when a soundcardxe2x80x99s AD/DA unit stops receiving new data and keeps outputting the last buffer received, causing a horrendouse sawtooth-type noise). Sometimes the music just stopped and everyone on the dancefloor stopped and looked around. Does any of this sound familiar?

Most of the time, when this happens, the disgraced DJxe2x80x99s exits the stage, proceeding to lament on Twitter/Facebook and complain about how buggy software X or hardware Y ruined a perfect evening. Screw that. Always have a plan B ready, and train yourself how to react when disaster strikes. ChaosChimp is designed to cause such disasters at random intervals, allowing you to prepare for them in the safety of your own studio.

Also, ChaosChimp can be useful for sequencer developers to simulate naughty or misbehaving plugins.
Parameters

At the top of the plugin are buttons to disable or enable the following types of chaos:

Audio dropouts
Hogging a ton of CPU
Try to crash the host (disabled by default)
Simulate feedback (disabled by default). In actuality, this scenario will play a burst of white noise, as real feedback is quite harsh on loudspeakers (and ears).
Leak lots of memory

http://static.teragonaudio.com/ChaosChimp.zip

ChaosChimp will run the scenarios at random intervals according to the values set by the three knobs:

Probability: Determines the likelihood that one of the selected chaos scenarios will be run.
Duration: How long the chaos scenario will last (in seconds).
Cooldown: How long to wait before running a new scenario after one has just occurred. Note that since the scenarios are run at random intervals, this value only guarantees the minimum amount of chaos-free time after a scenario has been run.

On the left side of the interface, there is a light which will illuminate when a scenario is running. Below this light is a panic button, which will stop the current scenario if you find it to be too overwhelming for your system.

For best results, place it on your master output channel and tweak the settings before playing anything.
Licensing

ChaosChimp is licensed under the GPL2. Further details can be found in the LICENSE.txt file distributed with the software.
Disclaimer

Teragon Audio is not responsible for any damage (either hardware or software) caused by using this plugin. Use at your own risk, and always keep backup

[WhiteWarlock]

Automathico

The Automathico is a MIDI note generator based on looped mathematical calculations.

It's mainly build up from 3 parts:

A fairly small knob-automation recorder which lets you internally automate knob adjustments, a bit bigger part is saved for the rhythmic section and the main part of the display is saved for knobs and selectors for the 6 (almost) identical sequencers.

Two sequencers are for the main base (stable en-harmonic and chord (offset from en-harmonic scaled into the right scale and key).

The other four are for two separate sequencers for both pitch and velocity, so two different patterns can be created together following the same structure (enharmonics and chords).

These 6 sequencers are based on a sample&hold loop in which a series of mathematical calculations are put over the looping values. First a waveshaper, then a parabolic function and finally a math-algorithm like sine, tanh, power, square root. The sequencers all have their own clock-divider and sync-option to enforce recurring patterns and next to this the pitch and velocity sequencers have an extra feed option which allows to feed a value of another sequencer into it's loop via modulating math-functions. As last there is a dedicated LFO for each of the 6 sequencers to modulate one of the parameters, which, in different combinations can yield very interesting results as patterns evolve.

The rhythmic and melodic sections work together to assign the current pitch and velocity values to the note generators in arp-mode. When the switch is down, depending on whether the pitch-sequencer is playing between 0-25%, 25-50%, 50-75% or 75-100%, the most right, middle-left, middle-right, most right midi-note generators respectively will be triggered. As each of these can send on a different MIDI channel, each keyboard-range can be played by a different external synthesizer or sampler (VSTi or hardware).

Together this creates a very dynamic sequencer which can change the mood and rhythm with a single turn of a knob (if you turn the right knob for that of course).

You can use it to control both VSTi or hardware synthesizers or samplers (depending on the MIDI-routing capabilities of your MIDIhost, Cubase and Fruity Loops are for example known to do the job)

http://www.teknoizer.com/Automathico%20 ... elp%29.rar

[Pigswill]

ChaosChimp is an audio effect plugin designed to cause problems for your sequencer. Seriously! Itxe2x80x99s inspired by Netflixxe2x80x99s ChaosMonkey, which was built under the philosophy that instead of hoping bad things never happen, they should be forced to happen often so that one is better prepared for them.

Specifically, ChaosChimp is a system that will flood its targets with an insane amount of heavy requests to try to knock it offline. It's estimated that 15% of the world's Internet bandwidth is from Netflix, so they have to make sure that their propaganda machines don't get overloaded.

At a previous software developer job, a couple of devs used a free implementation of the same sort of thing called Bees with Machine Guns. I think they tested a part of the system on a message queue that was hosted on AWS. A single brief test ended up costing the company a few hundred bucks in service and bandwidth.

[NoiseWiki]

A single brief test ended up costing the company a few hundred bucks in service and bandwidth.

Perhaps unrelated but back in the day before broadband was readily available we had what amounts to two phone lines with synchronous data at a studio I worked at. I think it was ISDN? Well one month we got this ginormous bill and figured out that one of the artists had been streaming audio and the connection was not closing when he finally went home each night. Even though we were relatively close to the phone junction the line distance was long enough that we were getting metered charges.

We got a similar setup when we opened shop in San Francisco.. fortunately this time we were close enough to the phone junction that we did not get metered. The amusing part was we got the service from this local weird video store called Leather Tongue.

[WhiteWarlock]

WavesFactory Cassette
Great things
are timeless
REWIND BACK IN TIME WITH CASSETTE

Cassette is an audio plugin that imparts the unique character and sonic imprint of an often maligned recording medium. A one that offers a sound like nothing else and that Ixe2x80x99m in love with. This is not a tape machine, this is a time machine.
PC
https://cassette-wavesfactory.s3.amazon ... 01.0.2.exe
MAC
https://cassette-wavesfactory.s3.amazon ... 01.0.2.exe

[WhiteWarlock]

http://www.n01ze.com/synthwizards/ARKIVE/VSRTapeWOW.rar
made this simple basic tape motor WOW emulator per request as Effect

[WhiteWarlock]

A single brief test ended up costing the company a few hundred bucks in service and bandwidth.

Perhaps unrelated but back in the day before broadband was readily available we had what amounts to two phone lines with synchronous data at a studio I worked at. I think it was ISDN? Well one month we got this ginormous bill and figured out that one of the artists had been streaming audio and the connection was not closing when he finally went home each night. Even though we were relatively close to the phone junction the line distance was long enough that we were getting metered charges.

We got a similar setup when we opened shop in San Francisco.. fortunately this time we were close enough to the phone junction that we did not get metered. The amusing part was we got the service from this local weird video store called Leather Tongue.

we had T1 connection at work in the early mid 90s...
for running ISP w/BBS style Wildcat server...
cost $2400 per month back then...

[FAP]

http://www.n01ze.com/synthwizards/ARKIVE/VSRTapeWOW.rar
made this simple basic tape motor WOW emulator per request as Effect

Does this work with Audacity?

[WhiteWarlock]

made this simple basic tape motor WOW emulator per request as Effect

Does this work with Audacity?

Honestly no clue if it functions in Audacity
hmmm hold on.... let me test it..................
YES

[WhiteWarlock]

https://www.fullbucket.de/music/modulair.html
ModulAir is a modular polyphonic software synthesizer for Microsoft Windows (VST) and Apple macOS (VST/AU) written in native C++ code for high performance and low CPU consumption.

ModulAir is a work in progress, currently in Beta, unfinished, as of now with only a bunch of quirky presets and a lousy documentation. I am not sure if it ever reaches the General Availability stage since I am constantly adding modules and stuff to it:-).

The main features of ModulAir are:

Fully modular architecture.
Up to 18 modules per patch.
51 module types available.
Polyphonic Voice and monophonic Master modules.
TUN/SCL micro-tuning file import.
Up to 64 voices polyphony.
MIDI Learn xe2x80x93 all parameters can be controlled by MIDI CC.
Double precision audio processing.
Plug-in supports Windows and macOS (32-bit and 64-bit)
https://www.fullbucket.de/music/dl.php? ... 1_0_winvst
https://www.fullbucket.de/music/dl.php? ... _1_1_0_mac
https://www.fullbucket.de/music/dl.php? ... manual_1_1
https://soundcloud.com/full-bucket