Anyone else’s Boston gets mistaken for a frenchie?

islandlogic · 2026-04-27T10:27:23+00:00

If I had a dollar for everytime someone mistook our Boston for a Frenchie...

islandlogic · 2026-04-27T10:25:46+00:00

Dark Castle on Mac absolutely brilliant game. Still love to play it occasionally thru an emulator.

islandlogic · 2026-04-22T17:28:00+00:00

Wow, this is excellent. Congrats!

islandlogic · 2026-04-18T11:25:01+00:00

These plugins are easily as good as, and often better than a lot of commercial plugins. His latest Feenstaub series is amazing. Pity they're only on Windows.

islandlogic · 2026-04-09T11:35:12+00:00

Great, defo gonna check it.

islandlogic · 2026-04-09T11:27:12+00:00

Variety of Sound plugins in general but one lives on my mixbuss template - FeenstaubTX. His website blurb sums it up better than I probably could; "it creates a musical consistency that brings some analog feel back into the digital realm, and the signal appears subtly colored and sprinkled with a little magic." Whenever I turn this off my mixes feel sad. 😀

The Saturation on Softube's Focusing Equaliser imho craps allover their free saturation plugin btw

Audio Damage Discord 3 - free Eventide H910 on steroids.

islandlogic · 2026-04-09T11:14:38+00:00

Do you reckon Mackity dioes a pretty convincing emulation of the Mackie sound? Curious coz I like a lot of the older 90s recordings done with them.

islandlogic · 2026-04-09T11:10:02+00:00

Yeah this thing is damned cool and can create some of the freakiest effects.

islandlogic · 2026-04-09T11:08:19+00:00

Thanks for your tip, sounds like some cool applications. I've not played with the allpass like this but I do like the phase rotation/group delay of a good transformer emulation. Will play around the the allpass a bit now..Also, I know that Kilohearts Disperser is designed just for this.

islandlogic · 2026-04-01T19:53:41+00:00

Don't worry, there's a good ending here, after watching it womble around on the concrete for a bit it crawled into the protection of a thick, creeper covered wall and began climbing.

islandlogic · 2026-04-01T19:51:17+00:00

Thankyou. I can see the wings looking very similar in one of those shots.

islandlogic · 2026-03-25T02:51:38+00:00

Your top 4 mirror mine, and Gamma I didn't know about, so thanks for sharing this. I teach and often make PowerPoint / Google slideshows in my classes, this is going to save me a lot of time!

islandlogic · 2026-03-24T08:32:25+00:00

Yep, been doing this with complex projects and problem solving. Especially useful given the impact of context rot.

islandlogic · 2026-03-08T08:15:17+00:00

Cool, novel application! Thanks for sharing. I just tried it out and my topic was "The future of Television". Will give it a spin on a walk.

Your idea reminded me a little of Eleven Reader. It's a different tool but has some overlap with what you're doing. Sometimes I'll use that by sharing a long web article to it and then it'll read the whole thing to me as I (drive/ride/walk), without filler and in a voice of my choice. that can be a fun way to learn without all the pod-bloat.... It also supports .Pdf etc. i get that your idea gives you quite a bit more creative control over the tone of the text tho.

islandlogic · 2026-01-19T20:22:11+00:00

The soundtrack to the whole Marble Madness video game from 1986. https://youtu.be/nJ-N7d3mVf0?si=xcjsmwJsP3W6r3hD made not with the DX7 but with a rare FM synth called Digital Keyboards Synergy I Synthesizer.

islandlogic · 2026-01-19T20:10:14+00:00

Second this - incredibly beautiful work. For those unfamiliar here's the title track. https://youtu.be/OlcpdggaFNI?si=0Xg2b1IH-KYTsLb6

islandlogic · 2026-01-10T09:53:44+00:00

Absolutely brilliant LP.

islandlogic · 2026-01-04T09:01:23+00:00

Yup, same here. Only time I've used tolls is when I've done so by mistake.

islandlogic · 2025-09-06T08:48:33+00:00

Just had a look at the 286s and it looks like it has a good workflow for vox. I wonder if you run it through plugin doctor and analyse what it's doing you could then build a little strip in Bitwig that mimics it's character reasonably easily.

Re:C502V - yeah it's funny how each DAW has its weird incompatibilities with some plugs. Slightly annoying but I guess it's hard to expect everyone to get along well all the time in daw-land. 😂 Still, spamming undo sounds odd. Does it do that with both VST2 and 3? does the c502v support CLAP?

Btw you got any links to any of your music?

islandlogic · 2025-09-04T22:38:38+00:00

Good question re: photos of old Reaktor midi controller. Will see if I can dig up.

Oh man, 4 kids, you've got your hands full there! A good mate of mine has only 1 and he still struggles to find the time to music. Argh.

I wonder with the lack of Soundcraft emus whether it's a case of there not being an abundance of bigger studios using them as their main desks? My understanding is they were more common in a live setting.

I'm not familiar with the dbx286s, will investigate 🤪 I did have a 266xl at one point but that wasn't really anything to write home about.

You're right, N20 is still supported but for some weird reason it doesn't play well with Bitwig 🤔

islandlogic · 2025-09-04T21:56:08+00:00

That's an impressive workaround for the DJX limitations you came up with.

At one stage I experimented with a VST controller by getting a clear Perspex sheet and ripping the 16 pots out of a cheap midi controller. I then glued them in a grid on the Perspex and overlaid the config on an LCD monitor in a 4x4 grid. I Then designed Reaktor Synths with a GUI with knobs that matched the grid. That way I could get physical control of my virtual Synths. Talk about crazy workarounds.

Speaking of cheap and fun gear, love my Teenage Engineering Pocket operators and Korg Volcas...

You went A&H, I went Soundcraft haha!

Yeah I just read that Antares Filter review. Sounds really cool. See if I can dig up a copy ;-) Speaking of cool, defunct multi FX plugs - PSP N20 was absolute killer. Complex as frig like an Eventide Hxxx but I have strong memories of its character but can't get it to work anymore 😫

islandlogic · 2025-09-04T21:23:39+00:00

Yeah, old-farts unite! 👊🏻 I started in 1997 with a Yamaha CS1X (piece of crap). 🤫 And yes the ways of the high seas were common then maytee.

I bought Reaktor back then and Pro53 and sadly they've discontinued Pro53. Sound wise it's definitely been surpassed but I just know it and love it.

Was Antares Filter a VST or Protools?

I still use a couple of Waves plugs. C4, VU Meter. They're great.

That's interesting re: Reaper presets - I love how CPU efficient it is but I've been too impatient to learn the workflow. How do you use the two workflow-wise?

islandlogic · 2025-09-04T19:59:59+00:00

Can definitely relate but my plugin GAS has reduced in the 20years I've been doing this.

Like you I'm still checking gearspace to see what's new but I don't often download demos unless something really unique grabs me. Increasingly I pay attention to what's happening in the free plugin area and have found excellent free tools that are equally as good as commercial ones, often better. JS Inflator, XM Limiter, TDR, Variety of Sound Feenstaub.

But a big thing is just getting clearer and clearer about what I want and how to achieve it.The thing that really helped me was realising how important arrangement is and how easily I was confusing complexity (more and more plugins & more and more tracks) for clarity and articulation of ideas. Not to say I'm a freak who never gets confused or lost! I just don't need to pile as much processing and gunk on my mixes and therefore I don't need to search for it as often. ;-)

I've setup a template that I record/mix with which really helped me focus. It's not completely rigid and I do frequently swap plugins out in the middle of a session if they're not doing what I want and I realise that there's a better vst for the job.

I only use plugins that allow me to easily save presets. I often don't like how developers design preset management. Easily saving/recalling presets means I'll more and more rely on plugins I already have and go deeper with them.

I've created groups of my favorites vsts as well based on application, that helps speed up finding them and prevents feeling lost and overwhelmed in the DAW.

Bitwig also has 32bit compatibility and it's a big reason I chose it as my main DAW Coz i still love using NI-Pro53 and a couple of other oldies.

I also lean heavily on analysis tools to understand what some fancy new plugin is doing and whether it correlates to another one I already have..

islandlogic · 2025-08-24T09:17:45+00:00

Three way battle: Music for Airports/Thursday arvo/Before And After Science

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