Comments on: Beatburner, Loop Mangling Instrument for Windows, Now Free, and Mac Freebies

By: exbillx

exbillx — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:24:30 +0000

I really Like the sounds you can get with Beatburner, i have been using it with acid pro6 But I can not record with it just plays loops continuously…Anyone how to do this?

By: fiz

fiz — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:41:39 +0000

Thanks MD…kinda wish I’d read your info a couple months ago, before I bought Parallel’s. Ah well…still good to know about.

My original question is no longer relevant…for the moment anyway. As a newb to Live (and Logic), I’ve got my hands plenty full at the moment. But, should you return to this thread, allow me to return the favor by just mentioning that today the good folks at Automat released an updated beta version of v1.0, and by my trial, the thing holds steady in Live! And: it allows for multiple tracks with different instruments — without crashing!

At the moment, Automat is my favorite softsynth. This tidbit seems worth mentioning.

By: MonksDream

MonksDream — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:27:19 +0000

@fiz

Re-reading your post I realize I might have answered the wrong question. My apologies if that’s the case!

By: MonksDream

MonksDream — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:25:43 +0000

@fiz

I avoid Boot Camp altogether and use VMWare Fusion. It’s hands-down the most rock solid Windows virtualization I’ve ever used on the Mac platform. You can check it out here:

http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/

I understand Parallels has gotten better in the time since I tried it but I have no experience with its recent version.

The problem with Boot Camp is that you either boot your Mac to OS X OR Windows. Fusion lets you run both at the same time. Windows runs as a virtual machine in a Window on your Mac. I tend to run it full screen on a second monitor. Both Windows and OS X see the virtual machine (VM) as a separate machine that can share resources. For instance, I have one USB interface routed to the Windows machine and another routed to the Mac and I have no trouble running plug-ins on both at the same time.

Good luck!

By: fiz

fiz — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:24:36 +0000

As a MacBook user, what would be the Boot Camp host of choice, anyone?

By: 7oi

7oi — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:23:30 +0000

@spinner: thanks! yeah, i really love the ninjaplugs. very unique and a bit random, you never know what craziness you get.
@peter: thanks for the mention up there! i’m glad i could make the previous round up a little less platform battle-ish. :)

By: glacial23

glacial23 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:40:26 +0000

I’ve got a couple of SonicBirth’d plugins on my website - probably the best of them being an effect that makes the input sound like it’s coming over a shortwave radio.

By: Adrian Anders

Adrian Anders — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:24:02 +0000

True indeed Peter. I’m telling you guys, if OSX starts getting the kinds truely strange plug-ins that you can find on the Windows platform then I’ll be way more inclined to jump to it.

xoxos’s plugs come immediately to mind. There are such strange and wonderful SE plugs out there. Of course they don’t sound like a rich deep commercial synth, but that’s not the point.

There are some pretty good workhorse freeware synths on Windows, but moreover there are a TON of just really strange shit all coded in either SE or SM and thus will remain Windows-only (that is until either or both developers of those products make their plug-in development programs cross-platform).

Really, it’s worth Bootcamp for the free oddities alone.

By: Spinner

Spinner — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:17:47 +0000

@ 7oi love your music mate
cheers for the ninja tip, wicked little tings

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:22:48 +0000

One additional thought … at the rate everyone is buying up MacBook Pros, I don’t expect the plug-ins are going to keep being so heavily Windows-tilted. People do tend to code and test on the platform they use.