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REPLAY: MONDAY MUSIC – Music, Musings and More – May 5, 2025: Effects as Instruments? Kinda Sorta Maybe!

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The new monitors are in, and so is a new effects plugin!

Tonight’s show didn’t go exactly as planned. SoundToys has released SpaceBlender, which is free until May 22. I tried talk about how it (and other effects plugins) can be a part of your sound design, but things didn’t work out as well as they did in rehearsal. Such is “live television” I suppose. It’s still a really neat reverb. At least the jams were good and fun.

And … Initial impressions of the Adam Audio D3V near field / desktop monitors.

TIMELINE:
00:00 Begin transmission
00:00 The Opening Jam
15:35 Hello, welcome, and …
19:10 What’s In The Jam – Launchpad Mini
21:30 What’s In The Jam – the instruments
32:20 My first impressions and first week with the new Adam Audio D3V near field/desktop monitors
49:00 The down side to good monitors.
49:30 Noises in the studio
56:50 Noise test: Do you hear any noise? Quasor did.
1:01:55 SoundToys SpaceBlender quick demo and attempt to use it as part of a sound design. I deviated from my script here, and we suffer because of that. I won’t do that again.
1:06:10 Drone achieved, anyway …
1:07:30 Mapping an LFO to controls within SpaceBlender
1:09:50 Finally trying the sound design bit.
1:12:30 Flailing around in Diva this is a good section to skip … LOL.
1:16:40 Here I switch to the Polybrute, quickly build the patch I wanted to build in Diva.
1:26:00 Lightning strikes
1:27:35 A possible shortcoming
1:30:00 UPS and power conditioning in the studio
1:31:30 Expression pedal with Kontrol S, and parameter mappings with the Kontrol S are a little tricky with the Kontrol S.
1:32:55 Very brief mention of master_me mastering plug-in.
1:34:10 Another aborted attempt to map controls from Kontrol S to SpaceBlender
1:41:05 May need to put Kontrol S into User Mode
1:42:00 Unpopular topic: tariffs. Supposed to be a two-minute rant… But there’s a bird flu and measles coming at us, too.
1:56:45 Goodnights — thanks for coming and even staying through the rants.
1:57:55 The Closing Jam
2:12:36 End of transmission

THIS VIDEO IS NOT SPONSORED. Any products demonstrated on the channel are purchased using personal funds unless otherwise noted. Manufacturers or resellers have no input to the content of this channel.

Links:
Soundtoys SpaceBlender: https://www.soundtoys.com/product/spa…
Master_me: https://github.com/trummerschlunk/mas…
Adam Audio D3V: https://www.adam-audio.com/en/desktop…

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