Jul.20
2009
We Now Will Accept Comments From The Gallery...
Okay, it's been a long time since I've done this. While we're in our between-product-downtime, I'm going to open the floor to suggestions as to what Audio Damage should make next.
Obviously, we already have a fairly good idea of what we're going to be doing, but we haven't started yet, and that means we haven't actually committed yet. So there is a chance, however remote, that your idea could be better than our idea, and we'll do that next instead.
So, let's have it. The usual ground rules apply. For people that haven't been part of this before, posts like "A synth!!!111!ZOMG" are stupid and no one really cares, so don't bother. We don't do clones any more, so "you should make a clone of a Dingleberry 3000" is pointless. Tubes, spring reverbs, and tape emulation can't be done at the current state of DSP, at least not anywhere near something that could be considered worth a shit, and anyone that says otherwise is a balls-out liar or stone deaf, so don't bother mentioning tubes, tape, springs, or any combination thereof.
With that out of the way, bring that shit. What do you want to see us build?
Comments:
Would love to see a AD version of the Eventide H8000. Not an exact clone mind you but take everything you've learned and done and roll it into one cadillac of a instrument. Something of the likes of Fripp's solar voyager rig in a plug in... if thats possible.

posted July 20, 2009 by
alt
I still want to a see what AD's take on a drum synth might look like. I have a feeling it would be rude, cranky, and spikey as hell. Plus, it would be very full of techno.

posted July 20, 2009 by
Funkybot
I hold out hopes for a Fairlight simulator. A synth with a DOS-looking screen that loaded Fairlight samples would make me smile. I believe you have recent experience with 12-bit sampling. (Yes I know the Fairlight is 8 or 16-bit.)

posted July 20, 2009 by
synthetic
I would like to see AD tackle a vocoder like product. Let's face it, most software based vocoding products are not very good and overpriced for what they are (my opinion, of course).
I trust AD's design aesthetic and ability to design a nice interface and it would be nice to have something that could sound like a nice classic analog vocoder but could also fuck shit up, in a musical sort of way.
Of course, a vocoder is bordering into synth territory since you need a carrier signal.
But you've tackled almost everything else to awesome effect (pun intended) else so what's left to mangle?
posted July 20, 2009 by spittingangels
multi mode filter

posted July 20, 2009 by
boothnavy
A drum sampler using the parameter lock idea of the machinedrum. Like every sample could have a page of BigSeq used to control individual parameters per steps.

posted July 20, 2009 by
Darren "Gaylord" Halm
An audio re-arranger, like Replicant's cousin. Takes a buffer, slices it up, plays it back in a new (defined and/or undefined) order.
Deverb 2, just to fuck with SPL's misguided naming practises.
A MIDI buffer/looper/processor par excéllence (admittedly I'm not sure there's a market for that sort of thing, but pie in the sky and all).
What I most want to see is something I can't even think of to put on a wish list.
posted July 20, 2009 by shamann
While I adore Replicant... I'd love a new beat slicer. Something that was more of a pattern re-arranger than a delay effect. One that you could control pattern length with (i.e. 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64). And had controls for randomization of said patterns, stuttering, pitch-shifting and bit-crushing.

posted July 20, 2009 by
lowlife
how about some sort of glitching effect

posted July 20, 2009 by
micester
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