Stockholm

So, I have moved to Stockholm for some months, don't know if I will have much time for music or DSP, but hopefully things will eventually settle and I can finish the EP in progress (I have the skeleton of the final track, I just need to put it together). Another complication: lately I have been looking at FL Studio and IL's various plugins a lot, feels very fresh and exciting after years of Ableton live, so I decided to "switch" or - at least - to try to concentrate on that platform a bit. Of course my productivity suffers a bit, but well, no pain - no gain :-)

Attitude Indicator wallpaper

Now this release has been in the queue for quite some time, and so I had the time to play around with some of the material rendered for the track images. So if you feel like dressing up your desktop in AI colors there is a 1680 x 1050 sized wallpaper for you over here.

Attitude Indicator released at Kahvi Collective!

#292 - Weldroid - Attitude Indicator

"Weldroid is a Kahvi regular almost now - after appearing as guest artist in Wolandroids release a couple back, we now have an entire album for your listening pleasure! Attitude indicator is an evolution in the sound of Weldroid, some fairly glitchy and underground vibes mixed in with some excellent minimalistic beats.

The 15 tracks that make up this release (playing time around 1hr 20mins) are a vast array of different sounds, it sounds a lot like Weldroid was brainstorming the entire release and evolving the tracks, one from the previous. Some fantastic work, well thought out and produced.

Tracks of choice: Not every neuron, Tabby Cat, the oddly named Bonchida dreamin.

Another great release from Weldroid - lets hope we hear more from him again later this year!"/4T

Weldroid @ Alien Air Music show tonight!

"Iron Loss" was featured tonight at the Alien Air Music show on KXLU Los Angeles. Yippeee! (Cheers Pat!)

Have a look at the playlist folks!

Courvoisier released!

Update: Revision C released with fixed M/S matrix.

Download link
Download link #2

Courvoisier is a single-band universal dynamics processor with adaptive attack and release algorithms optimized for complex program material (mixes and submixes). Courvoisier uses free-form curves drawn over the histogram of incoming audio material (as opposed to traditional ratio and threshold parameters) to determine the transfer function of the processing.

Courvoisier is available for free.

Features:

- Histogram representation (sliding-window statistics)

of incoming program material and the resulting gain change
on which the transfer function can be drawn

- Free-form upward and downward compression and/or expansion

- Spline interpolated control curves

- All performance-critical code optimized in assembly
(utilizing SSE2 flow instructions)

- Two different adaptive attack algorithms (program dependent)

- Adaptive release algorithm (program dependent, scalable)

- Additional user defined adaptive release behavior

- Side chain filtering (low and high pass)

- MS operation
(with support for different transfer curves for Mid and Side channels)

- Stereo operation (adjustable stereo link)

- Dry mix option for parallel processing

- Peak, RMS and Hybrid level detection

- Very low harmonic distortion
(THD during normal operation is below -105 dB FS)

- Lookahead processing for minimizing distortion
with extremely fast attack settings

- Complex mode (oversampling with a twist)

Some nice pushbuttons...

...for the forthcoming audio processor.

Ambiophonics Processor VST: ambio.one

Download Link #1
Download Link #2

After some weeks of fine-tuning and testing the ambio.one plugin is released to the public. It features a highly customizeable crosstalk-cancellation solution based on the RACE algorythm developed by the Ambiophonic Institute.

The plugin can be used to process regular 2-channel stereo material for ambiophonic presentation. This is basically a 2-speaker setup where the speakers themselves are placed close to each other, but still, due to the crosstalk cancellation, the achieved soundstage can be (almost) up-to 180 degrees. (The ambiophonics.org website is stuffed with information on how to set-up such system, and also the plug-in has a detailed on-line help to assist any ambio-newbie :-)

The plugin can be used in any VST compatible host on the PC (it was tested with Audiomulch 2.0, Ableton Live 8 and Christian Budde's plugin analyzer, let me know if you find any incompatibilities with your host).

Compatibility with Winamp (and any other software capable of loading Winamp DSP plugins, like the great FFDshow codec), and foobar2000 is provided via wrappers:

Winamp VST Bridge
foobar2000 VST wrapper

System Requirements:
- VST 2.3 compliant host (or any of the wrappers listed above)

Now what could this be?

An audio plugin that will make you smile. Yes, it is made by me, and yes it can be yours for free. Soon. (Hint)

Black Glass alternatives

Hmmm, I've been thinking about enhancing the Mild Case EP that have been waiting in the release queue of a netlabel you know very well and is also linked on this page :)

If this plan succeeds then the original 4-track EP will transform itself into a full length, 8-9 track album. Meanwhile I have also been trying to do some improvements on the mix of "Black Glass", and for a limited time period you can hear the results @7161.

You can also listen to the original version if you like.

Free Spirit (aka. Cheap Booze)

Hehh, this is something very-very un-weldroidish stuff but might cheer you up on a cold November evening. Special thanks to Tom for providing some very cool ideas and tricks.

Play the track on 7161

Attitude Indicator

A new release is in the queue, with 15 tracks and a massive playing time of over an hour and 18 minutes. Stay tuned and enjoy the cover art for now! :)

Twit-twit!

Woldroid on twat.. err. twitter!

Tom Cosm

In case you didn't know, there is a great guy out there called Tom Cosm (the second guy from the right :-), who makes super-cool video tutorials on music production and especially on live performances. Great to watch just for the fun of it, but absolutely essential to Ableton Live users.

Great vibe, lots of useful info and excellent tracks to be downloaded as well.

World of Goo soundtrack

Lately, I have been listening to this great album, if you're into cool soundtracks, make sure you don't miss out on it. Now, if only I knew how he made those gorgeous choir/vocal parts... :-)

ALien Air Music

Alien Air Music, an electronic music program on KXLU 88.9FM (broadcasting all around Los Angeles and the Internet of course :) was featuring "Black Glass", the second track from the Mild Case promo on the 18th of January.

Big kudos for Pat Murphy, the host of Alien Air Music for the opportunity and for that two hours of superb electronica every week!

(You can listen to the archives here, just scroll down to see the latest stuff. You can also download Jan 18th's program from: http://www.alienairmusic.com/mp3s/2009-01-18.mp3)

Another version of the Mild Case cover

At some point I have given up on this red/green colour scheme, but I have felt it would look nice here :) And who doesn't like nixie-tubes after all?

Modelling: 3D Max, Renderer: Indigo 1.1.14

37.4 - Mild Case

The new EP is almost ready (well, it IS ready, I just like to play around with some extra tools, pretending that it still needs some final touches here and there, just to revert back to the original on the next morning :-). The title is Mild Case - 37.4 and it kinda indicates this time I have not fallen completely to the dark powers (bitcrushers, distortion, etc...)

Release date is still undecided, so stay tuned!
(The picture above is just one of those concept arts I have came up while putting together the cover.)

Stranglehold!

First things first.

Although this is not somethig I would call "fresh news": Stranglehold has been released by Kahvi Collective. And how else could I celebrate its last days on Kahvi's frontpage than having a post about it? :)

Download and enjoy! (And make sure you check out other great Kahvi releases!)

Finally!

Welcome to the new WHQ! Basically, I had enough of that awful visual clutter that myspace provides (not to mention the lousy music player). In the future, this will be the place for any Weldroid related news (including but not limited to: releases, remixes, audio effects, 3d artwork, etc...). Of course the old myspace page is still there to fulfill all your networking needs, just have a look under "Network!" on the right side. You can also use facebook if you feel that's more appropriate :)

Wishing you all the best for 2009,
Weldroid