Comments on: SSL Offers Free X-Orcism Halloween Plug-in

By: ericdano

ericdano — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:51:39 +0000

How come if I Wrap it in VST Wrapper, it doesn’t show up in ProTools?

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By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:29:26 +0000

No one’s going to be falling asleep to the fat bass coming out of an ARP. It’s too invigorating!

By: foosnark

foosnark — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:24:10 +0000

So, a mini-review:

“Echoes” controls the mix (and possibly feedback) on a delay effect with fixed time.

“The Howling” mixes a wind noise mixed in with the input.

“Wailing” is a sort of modulated spooky vibrato.

“Tombverb” is a mix control for a very artificial, long-decay hall reverb.

“Ghoul” is a pitchshifter about as good as any I’ve heard in VST form.

The controls are a bit notchy, there are no value readouts and it doesn’t expose parameters to the host. And of course there aren’t a lot of pretty basic controls, like delay time.

But surprisingly, I think this thing can be useful beyond tonight. It doesn’t sound bad, except in possibly good ways. And it’s free and doesn’t kill your CPU.

By: Veqtor's Corner

Veqtor's Corner — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:01:25 +0000

Free Happy Halloween Stuff…

…Next is SSL’s Free Halloween Plugin: X-orcism via CDM:

“Solid State Logic (SSL) is celebrating with a free plug-in for Mac and Windows (VST / AU). Registration is required, but otherwise, no strings attached. They write……

By: foosnark

foosnark — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:00:10 +0000

I don't know... my theremin playing is very scary, and not because I make spooky woo-woo noises with it either. ;) Anyway, registrations like this are what Mailinator is good for.

By: SSL Offers Free X-Orcism Halloween Plug-in

SSL Offers Free X-Orcism Halloween Plug-in — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:37:41 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:04:28 +0000

Oh come on it’s free! What’s a little e-mail address between friends? Surely you have one just for spam anyway? Plus while you’re there you can go fetch the Listen Mic Compressor too.

By: jonnyfive

jonnyfive — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:33:48 +0000

Yeah I have to say, after I saw the registration required part, my response went from “cool” to “meh”.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:26:14 +0000

It’s certainly not a new idea — in fact, SSL themselves have done it before.

I think it might actually have the same marketing impact *without* the registration required, to be honest. (in fact, give people the *option* of signing up for the mailing list, and they might be more likely to want to receive it…) But anyway…