and threw a party for the closest family.



I took the chance to try and take some pictures now that so many of us had gathered to celebrate her.
Some of them are a bit blurry. Others were very dark, but I managed to make them usable after some tweaking in Photoshop.

I think many of us were a bit nervous at first, but that quickly passed, and we had a very nice, relaxed evening with many jokes and good humor.
Personally I think it ended way to early.
I even tried to convince grandma to lets us open up her old bottle of portwine but maybe it was for the best that we didnt get that far ?

Anyways. I made a little slideshow of some of the best images. I also added some music to it.
Its an old track I did for fun and I think it works well with this slideshow.

Enjoy it and take care.

Lots of improvements and bugs fixed.

Version 1.8 did not sound as it should =(
This has been corrected and perfected with the new beta release. I hope to get a new demo out asap.

Edit: Demo available now. Look here: Demo

Here is a list of what has changed since the last build:

History:

15/3-08 v.1.92
• Changed the Dry/Wet so that it is not affected by the Trim knob.
• Changed the PDR so it works better.
It now reacts a lot more to the Release/Hold Knob in PDR mode.
Much more musical. Also made it so that the Release time display
changes live when in PDR mode.
• Optimized the Detector and some other parts.
• Extended the Attack from max 300ms to 500ms and also changed the
way it was measured. The attack time is now much longer.
Check old presets.
• Changed the Release Time slightly to a smoother scale. Also a bit faster.
• Corrected a bug that would prevent envelope times to update itself
when values changed. Pretty serious bug.
• Now the envelope works as intended and indeed sounds a lot better and
more musical.
• Fixed a nasty bug in the Threshold Detector.
• Fine tuned the clip meters.
• Changed the Ration max from 50.0:1 to 100.0:1
• Changed the Graphics slightly to gain some loading time.
• Changed the LAH delay back to 3 ms. It is enough.
• The Input Peak meter now displays the input signal after the Trim knob.
• Changed the Trim Range
• Optimized Load time and ram usage
• Fixed another bug in the Envelope Detector that could cause some serious problems
when not using PDR and in OPTO mode.
• Fixed Denormals in the Low Cut Filter.
• Finally added the serial protection I have been working on.

Im working on getting the webstore updated and I think it should work now.

Elatua will cost the same as Inerthia. 90€ / 137$ but the dollar is falling faster and faster so I have fixed the price to the Euro.
I feel truly sorry for all US citizens. Things will get pretty expensive for you guys unless a miracle saves you.

To make things a little bit sweeter I made a bundle of the two plugs. Get them both for 150€ .

Anyways. There are new versions of Inerthia and Elatua.
There is also new demo-versions to download.

Elatua

Inerthia

Inerthia Update History.

•Many optimizations to the various filters. It should now use much less cpu.
•Added a clip-meter that is quite accurate. It is ok if it flashes once or so but more then that and its clearly over the limit.
•Changed how the mix knob was routed.
•The LAH is now at 4 ms.
•Finally changed the smaller knobs.
•Fixed a bug were envelope times would change on higher sample-rates.

• Added Opto compression as an option. It is adjusted with a knob from VCA to Opto.
• Cleaned up a bunch of bugs in the sidechain part. v.1.66 sounded quite crappy but now its back to were it should be.
• Remade the graphics slightly to fit the new VCA-Opto knob. Also fixed the graphics around the peak meters.
• Looked hideous before and was quite misleading. I found myself trying to change the scale by clicking on the numbers.
I wasnt the only one doing that
• Moved the softclip so its placed after the sidechain listen and mono switches.
• Modified the Release times slightly. I had previously added a 100 ms to release-time when in PDR mode.
This was not necessary and to be frank, I have no idea why I did that change so now its back to normal.


There is a new demo available and there is also a fully functional, no limitations, stand-alone .exe application available.
I also made a small movie showing Inerthia in use.

• Have made some serious optimizations to make it load much faster.
• Changed the routings a bit so that it doesnt clip when input trim is pushed to hard.
• Changed the High Cut filter so that it doesnt dist when input is to loud.
• Changed the attack time from max 100 ms to 300 ms.
• Changed the Peak meters so that it can display down to -60dB instead of -40dB
• Added a new function to reset knobs to default position by double clicking on the knob.
( Ctrl click still works)
• Corrected some bug so that fine adjust knobs by pressing your right mousekey while still holding down the left mousekey and
dragging, now works. (also you can use shift+leftmousekey and dragging for fine tune)
• Many more small fixes and tweaks.

I also made some similar updates to Elatua Limiter and there are demos of both to download.
The new betas will be mailed out to those that are on the list asap.

Updated the website to work better in the terrible browser Internet Explorer.

All of you who are reading this using Internet Explorer (any version), should consider changing.
There are many good ones that wont cost you a nickel. Just pick one, download it, install it and transfer your old bookmarks to use in your new fancy browser.
Most of the installation is fully automatic, Even the transferring of your old bookmarks.
It is a 3 minutes operation and will give you guys a much better experience surfing the web.

Mozillas Firefox

Apples Safari

The Norwegian Opera


Still. I had to make this site work slightly better, and it does, but the slideshows still wont work under IE.

It sounds incredibly nice. Very smooth.

Instead of the 3 way button there's a knob to scan the envelope.
From Slow to Fast.
The numbers under that knob displays the attack time in ms.

I also added a 1ms latency delay. It just sounds better when using fast attack times.

I added an Opto compressor as a clickable option and it sounds fantastic... I think at least.

Many optimizations and I think it should show on the loading time. I hope. Maybe also on the cpu.


The 3way button that controls the VU still doesnt work with presets.
Sometimes the light goes off.... Its nothing hard in any way. I just forgot to fix it.
Low prio at this moment. But I will soon =) Its just that I have to redesign the whole thing.
This button is the only premade module I have in it and someone else made it. I was lazy. I will make a new one =)

I have mailed out a beta version to all the beta testers and I also have a demo version here for those who wants to test it.

Everything works except presets and automation. Get the demo here.

Those of you who knows your compressors & limiters will figure that name out.

It sounds fantastic. Especially on vocals and loops.
Great if you want to sound a bit like Portishead
You know. The drum-loops they used were extremely compressed and that mixed with the
rest of the music made it sounds very nice. At least I likes it a lot.
This kind of compression is good on more then just that.
Vocals, Guitars, Bass, you name it.

It is also very easy to operate.
Set your Input Gain were you like it. The more gain in the more compression.
Select one of the three envelope speeds and finally adjust your Output Gain if needed.

It is built around a simulation of a tube and that "tube" controls the gain of the signal.

Test the beta version ( no time-limits or anything else like that ) and if you have any suggestions please don't hesitate to let me know.
Im open for all good ideas.

Inerthia updated to 1.61

Made some optimizations to cut cpu rate with 25% (on my own machine)
Replaced the bad Exciter with a handy Hicut filter.
Made some graphic enhancments.
Added graphical display of the peakmeter range.
Optimized the PDR function.
Some bugs fixed.

Today I launched the webshop so now you can buy Inerthia from here using Paypal, Creditcard, Check or any other normal method.

Since I continuously tries to improve this plugin I will release updates that will be downloadable.
I will send out mails to all customers when there is a new version available and the mail will contain a link to the
new version, so use a valid e-mail adress if you purchase it.