Acmebargig iFace Arrives

iFace Trial

Support the good people at ABG and purchase iFace here


After quite some time of waiting, the wait is over. Sweet! If you are a Redwirez user, no more fumbling around thousands of files and folders to find the perfect IR (Impulse Response) for your tone. With iFace you can select Cab, mic and go. Actually move the mic on the user interface and the IR changes to that position, off axis, or ambient. It basically makes using IR's much more like a real studio setup and work flow. I know I'm going to put this to use within the next few weeks.

The trial version will work fully for 30 days. But at the low low price of around $20, I'm going to support my friends and buy it if it works as well for me as I think it should. You should consider that too.




***UPDATE***
I took a while last night and reorganized my Redwirez folders to the correct paths and got a few minutes to play with iFace. I'll be purchasing it sometime in the next few weeks. This thing works fantastic. No more clicking through 1000 folders to simply change an IR. Before iFace auditioning different IR's was hard and by the time you clicked through all the folders to a new IR, you forgot what the old one sounded like. Now, just move the mic. Wonderful. As much as I love LeCab, this thing is just too easy to work with to not use it. The only downside is that it takes a little more CPU per instance. Running 8 or 10 amps on one project could be a sizable cpu hit. But as easy as it is to move mics around now, I think I'm going to simply start bouncing tracks down to save the CPU anyway. Thanks Ken and everybody at ABG for this extremely useful plugin.

LeCab2 Is Here!

Lepou has released his updated Impulse Response loader "Lecab 2". I haven't had the chance to play with it yet, but I can't wait. In the past few months I've shifted from using Revalver MKIII as a shell program to simply putting everything single, plug by plug in my effects chain. I've used the first Lecab extensively and it works great. This new version adds 4 more impulse slots for a total of 6, dropdown menu's for easy auditioning, and basically improved control over everything. It's sure to make routing, blending and using your IR library much easier.

LeCab2 is the evolution of LeCab1. It's a cabinet (guitar or bass) impulse loader. LeCab2 offers :
- 6 impulse slots
- Latency control (down to 64 samples)
- Dropdown menu built with the .wav files contained in the directory where the last impulse is loaded
- Next and Prev buttons to navigate through the impulse directory
- Solo button for each slots
- Channel selection for each slots
- Possibility to link the loaded impulse of 2 slots (other controls stay independant)
- High Pass and Low Pass filters for each slots
- Phase, Delay, Pan and Volume controls for each slots


You can see what the man himself has to say about it here:
Lepouplugins.blogspot.com

Look at me Mom, I'm a Ringback Tone!

Ok, a very cool update.

If you are a Cellular South Customer, you can get my songs as ringback tones. There's a $0.99 monthly fee for the service, but the actual ringback is free and not subject to any charges except the monthly fee.

I know most people think Ringback tones are just annoying, which is why I've done it :P But you gotta admit, it's kind of cool too! I mean come on, it's not really that hard to get your stuff up on iTunes and while I do have some industry connections for stuff like this (It's a big part of my job to manage our digital catalog), It's not nearly as easy to become a Ringback tone.

Just search for "A Sonorous Pose" on the Cellular South Ringback web page. I'm under the "Emerge Artist's" category. I guess I should take this time to also mention the Android Emerge App. You can also find some of my music on that. Cellular south created it. It's designed to help promote local unsigned artists. While a good idea in theory, yeah, most of you can probably imagine - and I'll just leave it at that.

So if you're a Cellular South customer, go check it out.