Expanding justastudio and figuring out new ways to manipulate sounds. As usual we are busy doing various stuff, but we got some sparetime to update our little blog.

1. Links section updated
2. About text updated
3. Gear list updated
4. New pictures added to the gallery

Watch out for: sessionate

Keywriter from Knobster.org  is quite a different VSTi and it’s for free.

Keywriter is a rompler that reproduce the sounds of a German typewriter «Erika». Can be used as a unusual rhythm machine, and as a tool for special effects.

Full range of typewriter sounds
Stereo control
Drive control
Low CPU usage

Link:
http://knobster.org/plugins/en/keywriter.html

A Roland 101 clonish fab sounding synth from TAL called ELEK7RO, do yourself a favour and try it out (it’s for free). For both Mac and PC computers.

2 oscillators with hardsync, PW and FM (saw, pulse, triangle, sine).
1 sub oscillator (saw, rectangle).
1 noise oscillator.
18dB or 12dB non linear analog modelled low pass resonance filter.
Mono mode, including portamento.
Poly mode, up to 6 voices (not cpu optimized for poly mode).
2 free routable Lfo’s (0.1Hz - 400Hz, sine, triangle, saw, rectangle, s&h, noise).
Filter and amplifier ADSR-envelope.
Free routable AD-envelope.
Mod-wheel and Pitch-Wheel support.
Midi Learn for all pots
Velocity to filter contour intensity.
Panic button.
Tutorial and installation guide.
Included factory presets - i’m shure, you do it better :-).

Link:
http://kunz.corrupt.ch/?Products:VST_TAL-Elek7ro

Another beauty from Odo called SeeqOne (VSTi only) - freeware!

 
5 sequencers:
1 sequencer is for “Notes and Octaves” but can also be used for filter, Pulse Width, resonance or Phase modulation.
2 sequencers are used as envelope decays mainly for cutoff and oscillator pitch but also for pulse width and phasemod or resonance.
1 “normal” sequencer (no decay fx) can also be used for the same destinations.
Gate sequencer with mix option.
3 oscillators (sine/saw/ramp/pulse/triangle) - octave/note and fine tune for all of them.
5 filters - low/hi/band/4pole/8pole - and a filter envelope with Attack, Decay, Sustain and Level.
An extra oscillator for FM/PM/PW.
2 LFOs.
2 decay FX.
Left and right delay.
Glide.
Soft distortion.
64 presets.

Link:
http://www.odosynths.com/vst.htm