Now for our Windows cousins too....

Obelisk is a spectral multi-effect that combines a Spectral Delay, a Spectral Filter and a Spectral Gate and gives you really interesting ways to interact with them.

I don’t use Windows for music stuff personally, but I do use Obelisk. If you are a Windows user and are at all interested head over to the ArtificialAudio site and check it out.

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• Previous blog entry on Obelisk and more detail can be found here.
• The Artificial Audio website can be found here.

Artificial Audio has released Obelisk, its new spectral multi-effect for Mac OS X. It is a combination of a Spectral Delay, a Spectral Filter and a Spectral Gate.

Obelisk puts many, many effect parameters under easy graphical control. It has 2-dimensional LFOs for setting up interesting modulation possibilities to enable endlessly changing sound layers of the processed signals. It is also CPU-friendly.

It costs €99, and is available in the Artificial Audio webshop in VST and AU plug-in formats for Mac OS X.

Obelisk Main Screen

Functionally it reminds me of iZotope’s Spectron, but a lot more intuitive. Be sure to check out the cool video tour. I’ll report back in a few weeks on what I find.

Well September is shaping up to be a heck of a month for VI & VE releases…

Available Now!

First up is the much anticipated release of Omnisphere by Spectrasonics. Based on an in house software engine called ‘STEAM‘. (Get it? The STEAM engine? Hardee Har Har.) It looks to be a deep instrument with loads of efx on call.

The build up to this has been going on since the January NAMM show. And I have to say, I like the way they went about it: Every 6 weeks or so, they released video shorts on some aspect of the product. A couple of videos in particular stood out: One video provided a brief and well produced history of synthesizers and synthesis. (If you want to know why sound presets are called “patches”, check it out.) The other featured their crazy sampling approaches.

Personally, I’m looking forward to it. Eric Persing and crew do great work, so expectations are high. And they are particularly high for owners of Atmosphere as Spectrasonic’s intel Mac-based wrapper for the old plug-in leaves many cold. I hope that one can get into the sounds’ design to a great degree if only to “de-hollywood” them a bit. (IMHO Spectrasonic’s stuff has a very slick, made for the screen, heavily produced sound. Good for lots of stuff, but not everything…)

Ordered mine this morning. Look for first impressions soon after it arrives…