Somewhere to ask
A channel for every plug-in, and one for everything else. Engineers and artists, trading what they know.
No uploads, no tracking, no advertising. The house rules fit on one page.
Open a channel to read it. The form to start a thread sits at the foot of every one.
Who are you?
Say hello. What you make, what you make it with, and what you are after.
Last: Welcome! and thank you for joining our forum· Ronald Meij· 1 d ago
You made music with our plug-ins
Put the track somewhere and link to it here. Tell us what you used and how.
Last: Post a track, and say how you got there· Ronald Meij· 1 d ago
TIJN 50
The filter and drive effect. Questions, settings, and what you got out of it.
Last: Which of the five models do you reach for first, and on what?· Ronald Meij· 1 d ago
Mey IVY
The sixteen voice polysynth. Patches, sounds, and how it behaves.
Last: Eight tracks is a lot of instrument. What did you build with it, and how did you lay the tracks out?· Ronald Meij· 1 d ago
HALLE 1280
The multichannel hall reverb. Rooms, tails and placement.
Last: What room are you trying to build? Post the settings and what you were after, and say where it falls short.· Ronald Meij· 1 d ago
MEY 640 Gravity
The surround mastering compressor. Settings and what it does to a mix.
Last: What are you mastering with it, and how much is each of the three stages actually doing?· Ronald Meij· 1 d ago
MEY 320
The dimensional chorus. Width, movement and where it sits.
Last: Which of the four modes do you use, and on what? Guitars and keys are the obvious ones, so I am more curious about the unobvious ones.· Ronald Meij· 1 d ago
Unity Balancer
Shape, ride, craft. The mastering bus.
Last: Where does it sit in your chain, and what is it doing that something else was doing before?· Ronald Meij· 1 d ago
Halo 2000
The living circuit reverb.
Last: Which programme, and what are you putting through it?· Ronald Meij· 1 d ago
Gear
Hardware, and what is worth knowing about it. Lists, notes and questions. No sponsorship and no affiliate links: nobody here is paid to name anything.
Last: Twenty hardware synthesisers worth knowing about· Ronald Meij· 1 d ago
A rainy day watch
Lectures, conference talks and documentaries worth a whole afternoon. Where synthesis came from, how filters and op-amps actually work, and what saturation really is. Every link checked against YouTube itself.
Last: Saturation, distortion and harmonics· Ronald Meij· 1 d ago
Audio chat
Everything else about making sound. Gear, rooms, technique, other people's tools.
Last: Anything about audio that is not about our plug-ins· Ronald Meij· 1 d ago