Sonic Charge

5 mentions in 3 episodes.

A. G. Cook

22:09 · Synplant 2 · named · high confidence

“When I was finishing it, I was getting into this plugin Synplant 2, which is quite new. It is a step up in terms of what I've seen plugins do.”

Synplant 2's Genopatch resynthesis became the foundation of Heartache's drum and cymbal sounds; he demos it generating patches from a crash sample.

1:43:57 · Synplant 2 · named · high confidence

“This sort of humming, hoovering sound — that's Synplant again. I was just messing with putting noise through it.”

Synplant resynthesis of noise creates a half-synth, half-noise drone in Lucifer.

2:07:52 · Synplant 2 · named · high confidence

“I've recently been messing with putting a voice note into Synthplant or extracting a tiny layer from a voice note.”

Voice memos are fed into Synplant to resynthesise their noise and grain into synthetic sounds.

51:04 · Bitspeak · named · medium confidence

“this one gets even weirder because it's going through this thing called Bitspeak for the second half”

Bitspeak is used to further crush and mangle the AlterBoy vocal layer in Card Declined's second half.

1:18:52 · Synplant · named · medium confidence

“a plugin called Synth Plant that uses AI and machine learning to model sounds... it'll build a synth that mimics that sample”

Jack cites Synplant's machine-learning sample-to-FM-synth feature as an example of AI amplifying artistry.