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:: Sunday, March 02, 2008 ::

ReViSiT & Gig Lowdown

ReViSiT - racking software for VST hosts

Before the Gusset vs Hoonboy set at The Cooler on Thursday Thom and I were setting up and practicing backstage. That turned out to be the highlight of the night as it was sounding good but in the end we didn't get to play. I bailed out at 1am as there was hardly anyone in the place, we weren't due to start until 3am, and the sound was awful for poor Rich Defazed. We tried to get the venue to sort it out put the sound guy had already fucked off home. We were told, "there's nothing wrong with it, it's been set up by professionals." What? Professionals who go home and leave it to run itself? Anyway, I cut my losses and got out and that turned out to be the right more as the venue decided to shut down an 2am anyway. Shame, it was a great line up and could have been a great night, but a Thursday was not the time for it and the promotion could have been better.

Chatting during set-up I mentioned how cool it would be to have a tracker in a VST. Thom pointed out ReViSiT, which does it already. I presumed it would exist but hadn't been bothered to search for one. Cheers, Thom. And sorry you wasted a night coming down from Manchester for a gig you didn't play.

We also have an interesting couple of hours chatting with Juxtaposeur, and have put the breakcore world to rights. Maybe more on that later.

Labels: FOSS, Gigs, Gusset, Software, Tracker, VST

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James Binray gave me a copy of his Dave Smith Evolver VSTi editor some time ago, and to my embarrassment I've not really got around to using it despite his requests for comments. He demoed it to me when I dropped by one time and I have to say that it looks amazing and seems to piss on both of the commercially available editors [Sound Tower and Vyzor].

Driving home after the January Goatlab radio show I was talking to him about possibly making it available to other users. He was hesitant as he didn't want to have to provide technical support. However, he has done so now, on this blog page and, cheekily, on the Vyzor yahoo group.

If you have an Evolver and are considering buying one of the commercial editors I’d strongly advise you to test this one out first.

Good work, James!

Labels: Evolver, FOSS, Synths, VST

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