VST plugins

This is the home of our VST plugin series for Windows. Even though these tools are 100% free we have bills to pay so if you make any money with music (or sounds) made or filtered with our plugins please let us have a penny or two.

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Noisebud Burt 1.0:

Noisebud Burt is our first attempt to make a VSTi. We needed a bass synth that delivered more grit and dirt and didn’t need hours of twiddling before getting there. We based the sound engine on waveshaping through distortion, bit crush and resonance since our VST fx chains on bass channels  almost always contain that sort of plugins. The result is a angry old fart that we named Burt. He can get so angry that his audio buffers overflows and get silent, you have to restart your DAW to cool him down but don’t worry, Burt will start screaming again.

Download:
Noisebud Burt 1.0

Here’s two demos, one quick dubstep production and one clean:

 

 

 

Reaper probs
You could run into problem if you use Reaper, there’s not much we can do about it at this point since it’s a compatibility issue between Reaper and SynthEdit and not a bug. We working on a workaround but can’t promise anything at the moment.

User section:
Send us a track or cool clip where you use Burt and we’ll post it here (at least 320 kbps mp3′s, flac, wav and aif preferred). We’d love videos as well!

Use this adress: info [at] noisebud.com

If it’s really large files use http://www.sprend.se or equivalent.

Mattias Fridell:

-”The first thing that struck me was the raw and aggressive look, which of course appealed to me immediately! After about 15 minutes I realized its enormous potential in the heavy and gritty bass line department. But Burt is not restricted to creating gritty bass lines; its also perfect for hypnotic mono lines a couple of octaves up thanks to the exceptional portamento and LFO.”

Daniel östlund:

-: No comment yet :-

 

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Noisebud CatchDad 2.0:

CatchDad is the second Noisebud plugin created strictly for live situations, the first being StepDad where you can add a step sequenced ADSR filter/amplitude curve to any sound going through the plugin.

With CatchDad you can catch 4 different sounds with just the click of a button and instantly start to program rhythms with the built in step sequensers.  The plugin is capable of building advanced rhythmic patterns with the different sequencer speed settings. It’s basic functionality is pretty straightforward, you’ll be droppin’ beats within 20 minutes. Just send any sound, live or prerecorded through the plugin, press Record and you’re on your way!

Here’s a clip where Johannes plays with a Beta version of CatchDad, we’ll make a tutorial and a bit more inspiring video as soon we can find the time.

News in  2.0:

- Auto record. You can now set CatchDad to record automatically in i e the beginning of every bar, or end… or middle…

- The pitch is now adjustable between 12 tone equal temperament and free

- 128 User presets added that are accessible through MIDI program change. If you change a user preset and store your song/project, your host should store all 128 presets with you project. So there is no store button.

- The interface takes less space so it fits on lo-res laptop screens.

-Noisebud CatchDad is delivered with Computer Music issue #170

Download:
Noisebud CatchDad 2.0

We leave the 1.13 download for those who don’t need the 2.0 features.

Download:
Noisebud CatchDad 1.13

Thanks to all who contributed to the CatchDad project:
Jeff McClintock for Synthedit
David Haupt for the SampleSnatcher module
Peter Schoffhauzer for the SC:Leveladjust module

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Noisebud MidiVU 1.0:

One of our early beta stage plugins took a huge leap into a 1.0. This plugin converts audio signals (VU) into Midi CC’s so that you can use your Lemur,  Behringer BCR2000, Novation Remote ZERO SL or any controller with alot of leds as a meter bridge.  We made MidiVU since other plugins sent huge amount of MIDI data that made Ableton Live crash when we wanted to monitor more than 8 channels. Noisebud MidiVU send a minimal amount of data and still have descent monitoring and it doesn’t send anything at all if there’s no audio present.

The controls:

Attack, Decay – Sets the Attack and Decay on your MIDI meter. Default and OK in most cases, Attack  ’0′ and Decay ’6′.

Sens Boost – Makes the meter really sensitive and boost the signal so that you can make silent audio visible. Default ’0′

Update Hz – Sets the amount of MIDI that will be sent. The higher rate the more accurate monitoring.  Default ’6′

To set it up in Ableton Live:

1. Put the MIDIVU plugin on the audio channel, bus or master that you would like to monitor.

2. Open MIDIVU and set MIDI channel and CC corresponding to the Channel and CC that you will use as a meter on your hardware MIDI controller.

2. Create a MIDI track and choose the channel where you put MIDIVU  from the ‘MIDI From‘ menu.

3. Set the MIDI track to Monitor ‘In’ (default is Auto).

4. Choose your MIDI hardware (i e Behringer BCR2000) from the ‘MIDI To‘ on .

Download:
Noisebud MidiVU 1.0

Plans for the next release:
-  The next release will add two plugins to the install, a stereo version and a special version for Novation Launchpad.

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Noisebud Filter 3.11:

This is what’s new in 3.11:

- Changed the way you turn the knobs, now they only react to vertical movement which should be easier

-Fixed limiter bug

- Changed to the new logo

Noisebud filter consists of 4 filters (or 16, depends on how you look upon it), they are switchable between Lo pass, hi pass, band pass and band reject filter. The signals from the four filters are wired in a parallel chain. Every filter can be controlled by three different LFO’s where one is tempo synced; one normal and one extremely slow (a sLoFO). The LFO sections also have something we call VariFO. It adds another movement to the LFO and makes it less predictable.  Every filter has an invert button so that you can silence frequencies that collide during heavy LFO movements.

Download:
Noisebud Filter 3.11

 

 

Changelog:

This is what’s new in 3.0:

- You can now set the type of filter you like, you can have 4 LoPass filters if you like. You can even let one filter be both LoPass and a BandPass at the same time!

- The first LFO is now tempo synced to the host!

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Noisebud Binvert:

Binvert is a plugin made for possible problems that can occur in mixes when you use several bass drums and overall bass heavy material and the different bass sounds phase each other out. We often have situations when we think a phase shift on any of the sounds will fix the problem and it does, in the lower frequencies anyways but what happened with the nice mid and high transients?  Well, no problems cause we created Binvert.

Here’s what it does:

It takes the signal and splits in into two bands (split point is adjustable between 20-400Hz).  After the split we put in a phase invert for both bands so you can invert the polarity of the two bands independently from each other. Problem fixed, the bass is still heavy and the mid/high transients stay crisp.
But it is a Noisebud plugin so we couldn’t just make a boring tool, we attached a resonance control  to the filter that isn’t really supposed to be there at all but it’s fun. We use it to self oscillate at low frequencies so it becomes a bit of a bass-drum-low-frequency-replacer-plugin… But then again… no… it’s a Noisebud.

Techy geek stuff:
Yes, it would be more appropriate to use the term polarity than phase. We choose phase because it’s more commonly used.

Download:
Noisebud Binvert 1.0

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Noisebud Bompa 2.01:

Bompa was made to add bottom and dirt on drum loops. Bompa wasn’t really meant for the public but we started to give it away to friends and they liked it and shared it with their friends and in a couple of weeks we started to get requests from totally strangers.

We reached version 2.0 and even if we haven’t changed that much process wise it’s a totally different plugin than the crappy looking first version.

New in 2.01:

- Changed the way knobs react to movement, they only react on vertical movement from now on (easier).

- Added Phase shift to the Boom and Gritty engine.

- Added metering for the processed sound (called pressure in the plug)

-Fixed limiter bug

- Reworked all graphics from scratch

Download:
Noisebud Bompa 2.01

 

 

Noisebud Bompa got nice reviews in German music magazine Beat issue #71

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Noisebud Stepdad:

A step sequencer controlled filter and ring modulation plugin. You need a host that transmits BPM to use it so it wont work in i e Steinbergs Wavelab. We’re currently trying to improve the timing but it’s not so easy since every host seems to handle this in it’s own way but we’re getting there.
This is a bit of a monster and we suggest to handle it with care.

Download:
Noisebud Stepdad 1.0

Without Stepdad:

 

With Stepdad:

 

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Noisebud BandPass 1.1 – Discontinued:

Noisebud BandPass has been replaced with Noisebud Filter 3.0 since you can set all filters to what ever you like in Filter 3 there is no need for Noisebud Bandpass anymore.

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Early Alpha and Beta releases:

These plugins will probably never hit the market because either their function is rather specialized and not needed by more than a handful of people or we don’t have the time to make them worthy of a real release.  If you found them usable but want more or improved features, send us a e-mail and we’ll see what we can do.

Noisebud WavDad:

WavDad is a spin off product from CatchDad. All the same controls but instead of recording sounds on the fly you load a sample. We made it cause the thought of being able to built up an entire live set from scratch programming your drums and rhythms on the fly on stage is very appealing. We might continue develop this little thing but put it on ice for now. Use it if you like it, if enough people ask for further development it might happen.

Download Noisebud WavDad

Noisebud Midi Monitor:

Just a simple midi monitor plugin, we made it for use in Ableton Live but it should work in any Windows VST host. Put the DLL in your VST folder.

http://www.noisebud.se/noisebud/Midi Monitor.dll 

Noisebud Ledlit 0.2.0 Beta:

We needed a easy and fast way to determine if there’s audio present on a specific channel when we play live and come up Ledlit. Ledlit lits the leds on a JL Cooper CS-10 when audio is present on a channel in Ableton (works in other DAW’s as well).

VST’s doesn’t handle Sysex messages so we made it send a choose able CC and then we convert it to sysex with Bomes midi translator. Since Ledlit sends CC’s you can use it to lit any leds that is assigned to a midi CC. It only sends 0 (00) and 127 (7F) and has a pretty advanced engine to reduce the amount of midi that is sent from the plug. If you compare it with other similar plugins you will notice that this is what make Ledlit special and is also the reason why we made it, Bome’s can’t handle the amount of data put out from i e Gatefish and Ledlit is better prepared for streaming audio than different drum triggers out there.

Download Ledlit2.0.dll

Noisebud Master 0.1.0 Beta:

Similar to Ledlit but this uses the four vertical leds on the JL Cooper CS-10 as a master VU and it sends 1-4 on a assignable CC to display the 1/4 in the 7 segment display. Same thing here as with Ledlit, you’ll need Bome’s to make it work. If you don’t know how to program Bome’s we can send you our patch.

Download Master1.0.dll

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