Rainbow Circuit

YouTube video by Rainbow Circuit Daedelus x Rainbow Circuit | Tinge: Guided Walkthrough

We took a moment to dive deep into Tinge. Guided walk-though? or Guided Meditation? You decide!

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my god she’s 🌼 swinging 🌺

"Where should we be today?"
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Thank you for all the love on 🌼Motherly🌺 over the last 14 days.

happy sympathetic piano string modeling yelling into the instrument with the pedals down saturday.

Thank ya 🥹🥹🥹

Sands | 8-Bit Converter - Modeled and Abused

You think your DSP code sounds good? Well get ready to write 3~5x more code for the GUI.

I developed some trauma circumventing stack overflow in Max.

Learning some ways to make digital filters self oscillate (since analogue filters have an inherit noise floor), and learned that I can add a -120 dB noise to the circuit and will (more or less) behave the same way!

The idea is coming from some experimentation over the last few days trying to handle some no input mixer technique. The serial “bandpass” filter in the feedback loop generates — and also modifies the output.

It’s been a bit over a year since Crush was released — it’s about time for a (free) new drum synth. Here are some ideas in the works.

Making music with prototypes early in the process. A “soft skill” was developed by realizing musical gestures — and much of the design choices were massaged into place in that process. Equal time on Xcode and Ableton was probably the right balance.

Writing a “protect your ears” function that detect signals greater than 20 dB and automatically shut down the DSP. God I wish I did this earlier.

Max/MSP. My colleague Matthew Davidson (former Cycling 74) told me that “Max allows you to find out which ideas are stupid much quicker”. Though I picked up C++ to ‘get away’ from Max, it still played a vital role in the process of finding the stupid ideas quicker.

A plug-ins purpose can be a functional one (which EQ’s and Limiters are), but it can just as much be an artistic one. Articulating a range of sounds was more of an artistic challenge — listening of records, studying technique, and deriving a “shared resource” that exists in a music scene.

UI turned out to be world building. Once the functional need to set parameter values are met, it was more about designing an environment that invites imagination. Peaks was more or less inspired by the mountaintops of southern Oregon that I passed through a train this summer.

Today Rainbow Circuit released Peaks — a VST/AU modal resonator plugin.

There were numerous technical and artistic breakthroughs that I wanted to share — hopefully found useful by follow creative developers.

Introducing Peaks, a VST/AU plugin from Rainbow Circuit.

With eight modal bands, external MIDI input, and audio-rate modulation, Peaks gives you both the lifelike and the larger than life of physical modeling.

Coming to the DAW of your choice on January 17th.

Here before all the other indie audio devs ☺️