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Cycling '74
The Daevl.Plugs were created in Max/MSP/Jitter, a programming environment made by Cycling '74. Max is used by musical hackers, visualists, multimedia artists and after-hours cocktail robots world-around to [loadbang] the future every day. Vlad Spears, musician and creator of the Daevl.Plugs, was interviewed by Marsha Vdovin and Ron MacLeod for the Cycling '74 artist series in September, 02007. Topics covered include the origin of the Daevl.Plugs, the evolution of Max/MSP patching style, programming as part of the compositional process, science fiction as life, irreplaceable heartbeats plus "a large dose of iconoclasm and wide swaths of experimentalism." |
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DTM Magazine
Immense, wide-ranging, eclectic and, above all, electronic... this just barely suffices to describe the fashionable media world of DTM Magazine, Japan's premiere monthly for creators of music. With resources like this, is it any wonder all the good sound comes from Japan? The Daevl.Plugs were included as a Checkpoint Buy in the September, 02007 issue's in-magazine DVD-ROM collection, along with a metric ton of both free and commercial software offerings by Rob Papen, Novuzeit, The Simulated City, Ohm Force, Image Line, Expert Sleepers and many more. |
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KEYS Magazine
Nils Quak put the Daevl.Plugs to the transmogrification test in an excellent half-page KEYS review. Some translated excerpts:
"There are emulations of classic effects and synthesizers like sand at the sea. ...it's all the more pleasure if developers take their search for sounds and creative change off the beaten DSP path."
"The Daevlmakr Audio Transmogrification Suite not only has an unusual name, but an unusual sound." "The Daevlmakr effects are an outstanding collection of plug-ins... ...producing surprising results again and again - and at an audaciously favorable price of US $36. The sonic charm of Daevlmakr will warm the heart of everyone searching for creative fun in plug-ins." |
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Create Digital Music
Peter Kirn and Liz Knight teamed up on the Daevl.Plugs' first review and recommendation. From the review: Peter - "daevl.noise: ...Lovely, sculpted noise, which I imagine you could mix in either liberally or conservatively and use any number of ways." "daevl.triad: ...it either does subtler random EQ effects or, if you prefer, eats your tracks alive." "daevl.triptych: ...definitely not what you normally find in your plug-in kit." Liz - "Triad kicks ass—it’s overdrive distortion plus a randomizing EQ that syncs to the source signal. *liz makes the rock fist" "Cubedriver ...bitcrushes and pitch-shifts audio based on where it is in the stereo delay loop. It really gives the audio a kind of 8-bit edge, but more controlled." |
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