u-he AudioUnit page
Feb 2004


activities - 02/01/04

Dudes, what busy times these are...

Next week, the new issue of German Keyboards magazine will sport a nice review of Zebra! Great!

Unfortunately, they (and lots of users!) criticised the lack of a 2nd LFO... hence I put in a 2nd LFO now, and I'll also add two sophisticated multistage envelopes that can also act as stepsequencers 8-))

Zebra V1.1 is in good progress and should be out within first half of February 04. It'll feature a lot of nice enhancements in details, as well as new functionality that had been requested by users.

Keeps me busy, that plugin zoo...

Oh... before I forget... Zebra was approved for Apple's Audio Unit Logo License!!! - This indicates that it is fully AU compliant, as it passes their AUValidation Tool without errors. Thus, Zebra is among the first Audio Units available that can officially use the AU Logo!

Cheers,

;) Urs


Beware! - Zoyd is there!
It's out.
Rumblence:zoyd will be part of Rumblence AudioUnit (one day)


Here's a little stupid demo song : Hear The Zoyd Talk (mp3, ca 3MB)
6 instances of Zoyd, 2 More Feedback Machines and some drums from EXS24 in Logic 5.5 - only factory presets with little automation. no other stuff used
Another Zoyd demo by Zeitfraktur (Sascha Kujawa) : Zoyd_ZF.mp3 (mp3, ca 1.2MB)

Shrieek! - modulatrinsic audio hazard
status:        basic systemce work as expected

bugs:          some compatibility nanostructure hassle

optimization:  none. - do i really have to?

cpu hunger:    huge, must be tamed, no problem

missing:       preset handling
               lfo sync
               polyphonic mode
               quality interpolatronic for some modules
			  
features:      2 osc + noise 2 filter 2 waveshaper synth
               2 lfo 3 adsr midi 2 matrix modulations
               9 different routings, 5 mixmodes
               various synthesis techniques (+ sync, pd)
               weird ringmodulation & subfidelity
               15 filter modes, more to come
               different quality/performance modes
               more.
			  
control:       57 knobs, 42 selectors (u do know me :-)
			  
sound:         rude. very rude. if not worse.

avoid:         not checking out this stuff...
Zoyd is currently in the state of 'public technology preview'


More Feedback Machine AU
out now!!!

  If you like the VST-version, you'll have to get the AudioUnit!

The user interface (hopefully) became more intuitive and it provides some functionality of the under-development MFM2. V2.0 will probably hit the light of day first as AudioUnit.



DigitalFishPhones plugins
coming soon

  as you might know, I have ported several plugins by DigitalFishPhones to the VST-Mac platform. The FishFillets have already been AUified, the other stuff will go AU as well. Don't ask me when...

 



meanwhile check these out:

Rumblence AudioUnit public beta release
webpage





for developers interested in creating AudioUnits:

CoreGraphics AudioUnit GUI (CAUGui) SDK (3/17/03)

u-he CAUGui page

this one has been moved to its own micropage...

 



Here are some applications supporting AudioUnits:

Five12 Numerology

i3 DSP Quattro 1.2

Celemony Melodyne 2

Intuem

MotU Digital Performer 4.11

Emagic Logic Audio V6.0

Sagan Technology Metro 6.0

Granted Software RAX

Chris "Manyetas" Reed's SynthTest

TC Works Spark ME/XL

Bias Peak

more to come...





this page will be filled with anything I do in relation to AudioUnits

Stay tuned

AudioUnits are Apple's new plugin format for audio/music processing




Urs Heckmann