Smashing Sounds With Nuclear Maths: My new Plugin Audiothing Arguments

[@Hainbach]

Finally it is out! A super fun and super nerdy plugin that you probably never knew you needed. It was supposed to be an easy one after the ages it took to get Moon Echo done, so we "only" worked half a year on it. Note: If you have all the AudiotThing Hainbach plugins, it even cheaper - check the user area. If you are a Patron, use the discount code you can find in "collections" to get another discount. www.audiothing.net/effects/arguments/

[@audiothing]

That was quite a release day! 😅Thanks to everyone for your patience and support. So thrilled to finally have this out in the world!

[@marcwerdelmann362]

I was shocked. I buy every plugin from you as soon as they come out... especially everything Hainbach. So I upgraded my effects bundle as usual, but the plugin was not there. I logged out, I logged in... nothing. It was pure madness for me for about an hour. Finally 15 minutes ago my account got updated somehow and now it's installed and ready to go. It will be a glorious night. Thanks Audiothing... for everything... you are the best!

[@audiothing]

@@marcwerdelmann362 Yeah, we had a little hiccup with the account, but it’s all sorted now. Enjoy!

[@audiothing]

@@marcwerdelmann362 Yeah, we had a little hiccup with the accounts, but it’s all sorted now, enjoy!

[@johngordon7625]

and well deserved too!

[@GeorgeLocke]

Is there a block diagram for this thing in the manual? I'm fascinated by "bad radio" signal loss type sounds and have always wanted to understand how to reproduce them.

[@blankspace0000]

Truly some of the most creative plugins available. Love your collabs with audiothing

[@Lagrange_Point_6]

I have to say, really well done. This is an absolute triumph. I have my copy installed and have used it this evening seeing how it will fit in with my workflow. I can definitely see it not only having a place in my mixes but also making some other Hainbach plugins work well alongside it. I have had your other plugins for a while and enjoyed them all, especially Noises and Lines. And Gong Amp is really useful to me as is Motor in adding subtle colour and shaping to instruments. But now I can see possible projects that might bring a lot of these plugins together to produce a fantastic variety of sounds. Normally I'm a 70s synth kind of guy but I can see opportunities for other things opening up. As a teenager I thought I was reinventing the world when I discovered musique concrète (Birtwhistle, Stockhausen, Mimaroglu, Schaeffer etc) and now I can realise those teenage aspirations with some confidence! Thanks for all of your work.

[@Hainbach]

Thank you for sharing that! Yeah the plugins are meant to build up to a whole enviroment together. Slowly getting there, still missing a few crucial pieces.

[@1BitZebra]

Crazy! I just bought it an hour ago and have already made 12 extreme but super useful presets for drums and guitar, this thing sounds so crunchy it feels illegal :D Super unique sound that I wouldn't know how to achieve with any other plugin

[@Hainbach]

Beautiful to hear!

[@dfaVoicedata]

Finally picked this up yesterday. Another amazing plugin! Thanks to you and AudioThing for these works of art

[@JoseLuisGarcia1234]

This plugin is so unique, and the sound is crazy from it! I love when maths is a tool for audio design, so straightforward! Congratulations 🎊

[@Hainbach]

Thank you!

[@thelanavishnuorchestra]

Well, this is clearly being added to my Audio thing collection. Fun and unique stuff.

[@joechapman8208]

You are the weirdest person in plugins [complimentary] and I'm so glad that you're around 🙌

[@Hainbach]

Thank you! It is always a gamble putting so much time into something this odd, but I feel its worth it.

[@unclebastard3691]

I'm going to route this into, and out of, my Lexicon Vortex, in itself a sound mangler of some distinction.

[@joechapman8208]

@@unclebastard3691 Nice! It creates incredible food for other effects

[@doctorc-ton1099]

This is such a cool instrument. I love seeing sound shaping tools like this that make all others obsolete based on your test equipment, so anyone can get the "outside of normal" sounds we crave.

[@sytsew]

...and then it gets normal and what do we do next 😱

[@doctorc-ton1099]

@@sytsew It's a pendulum. Sound designs go in and out of fashion. As well, it's about what an artist does with the sound designs they employ. If I took the plugin and made garbage with it, then naturally, my music won't be listened to, nor seen as anything that defines that sound design. Though when Hainbach does it, or even when (and what if) Boards of Canada does it, then it's seen as state of the art, and is normalized. Why? Because it sounds good! That's the point. You can make music any way you want, and even if it's with 1980's Casio keyboards, or with all the "bad gear" ever manufactured, and it sounds good, is fun to listen to, has interest, says something profound (with or without lyrics) then what is normal? Good music just is and you know it when you hear it.

[@ReznaQay]

this is really cool, ive always wanted my stuff to sound like im being grown in a test tube

[@elimilliman8722]

You the man, Hainbach. Love all you do and the way you do it.

[@kikkirow]

This plugin is so amazing. I can hear any industrial sound/song in seconds. Great work

[@markkilborn512]

I’ll be grabbing this when I get to my studio tomorrow morning. A friend pointed me to your plugins with Audiothing, and they’ve been a tremendous help for the project I’m currently working on. This sounds like it will be a great addition. Thanks for these wonderful tools!

[@jonzaremba]

You should also marker a signature series of jumpers/sweaters. I'm retired from music but know a guy with good fashion sense when I see one.

[@kemek3000]

Or a plugin that modulates incoming signal with spectral synthesis generated from different sweater patterns.

[@jonzaremba]

@@kemek3000 YES!!!

[@bricelory9534]

Love this! Feels truly unique - a sound I don't know I could find anywhere else. I absolutely love that HAINBACH and AudioThing seem to have made it their mission to bring the sounds of vintage test equipment to the masses. It is greatly encouraging

[@JoshuaTMagee]

You are such a mad scientist, my man! This sounds incredible and like so much fun to experiment and play around with. Will definitely be picking this up ASAP.

[@GrootsieTheDog]

This kinda reminds me of the Pulverizer by Reason...which is awesome and creates similar side chain, filter, and compression efx. I often put a big giant reverb through it live for a delayed reverberation effect where the revetb gets squeezed out and then opens up.

[@bitegoatie]

I do always love that "harmona" thing (appearing this time at the end of the video). Arguments, it appears, I will love as well. The mobile version I got immediately, and the plug-in for old-fashioned, bulky computers will follow when I get a moment. Though those devices currently need work to return to musical use, at some point I will get back to using them. It's important to have this new experimentation machine ready to perform its nuclear mathematics on my dopey music. I had discovered the charms of AudioThing some time before you began your collaboration, so I have been delighted to see you working together so well and with such frequency. Though this release schedule cuts into my minimal, disability-dole-based budget. I console myself with mangling my sounds and tell myself I'll eventually feel up to releasing some music, which is likely just my stubborn optimism drowning out an honest assessment of my health. At least there remains that optimism: I would be dead meat without it, long since. Thanks to you and to Mr. Thing for all the inspiration you provide. This time, I mean, and over the years.

[@tr606]

You have no idea how happy this makes me. This is a day one purchase for sure.

[@SuperMasterChieftain]

My very first experience with this brought a smile to my face and literally music to my ears, :D. Appreciate your uncommon choices which offer something quite unique. I used this with Fundamental and instantly was amazed at the plethora of applications that I am going to use this app for! Thanks Hainbach for this video and all your hard work as well as the Dev Team at Audiothing.

[@bigbaby1345]

Oh yeah. This sounds killer. I can definitely see myself using this for really deep and intense ambient drones and noise. Awesome work!

[@id.unknown1283]

This is pretty cool, I might need to pick it up for when ever i have the time to record all the music I've over the past couple of years

[@tonynekrews]

Killer stuff, you and Carlo are a brilliant team

[@J-DUB-F1]

More mad genius audio alchemy!........just wonderful! 😊🙏 Again this is a sound design goldmine!

[@walrtbstudios5430]

Collide 4 has been on my wishlist since it dropped, and this on the iPad next to the modular rig will keep me happy until I can afford it!

[@markaprill6501]

I was using some random plugin I bought the other day where I was pinging the moon….it had a label “powered by hainbach” I knew exactly what that meant being a synth nut and KZbin junkie. It’s nice knowing that out there somewhere a guy in a loud sweater is listening to the soft tones of tape delay and test equipment. I will buy and use for drum and bass rhythms.

[@apexcreditor]

This looks like it might be the perfect friend for my Yamaha QY-10. That Kawai drum machine near the start sounded gorgeous!

[@aiverway5064]

I bought it ! Keep up the good work ! 💥

[@Rockky67]

This looks and sounds great. Particularly enjoyed Hainbach showing off his mutant powers of invisibility in the video 😮

[@wickedcurve1975]

heck yea! Happy Tuesday! Great video!

[@shinyisshiny7780]

oh ffs, how many damn plugins yall expect me to buy from you 😜 sounds awesome, buying now

[@breitbanddesign]

Audiothing + Hainbach = instant buy … ;)

[@sevenape]

Fantastic app! Thanks!!!

[@Hainbach]

Thank you!

[@FSK1138]

another masterpiece🥰, i really hope push 3 gets vst support

[@codexstudios]

Hainbach, I might just have to buy every single one of your Audiothing plugins.

[@codexstudios]

Hainbach Bundle acquired! Now to make some industrial metal.

[@paullawson8610]

Interesting plug-in when you plugged the bass guitar in i was like yeah that’s cool

[@2attelite]

20:30 really reminds me of red queen by coil! wouldnt put it past them and their love for obscure obsolete audio gear to have used nuclear test equipment haha

[@marcwerdelmann362]

This is so good I'm out of words. Next Rhode & Schwartz UBM and Bruel & Kjaer device emulations, please!

[@monarchy_underground]

So cool, dankeschön!

[@0oNoiseo0]

Absolute fire!

[@nickmarkham3743]

I'm super curious as to what that synthesizer was at 2:40

[@heavyion]

It will be good for that particular moment in guitar hardcore, when vocal goes "AAAAA-A-A-AAAAA"

[@TheUposumas]

Hi! Great plugin❤ What kind of DAW controller is this?

[@BF-up5xw]

You demonstrated this wonderfully, thank you! I'm still of two minds, since there is a lot here that depends on saturation and I am trying to add that mostly out of the box. So, I shall trial the plugin in order to convince myself that I can't live without it. That is what has happened with every other plugin you've made with Audio Things! (Oh, pretty please, could you find someone to make a Eurorack version of Dials? Even just the filters...?)

[@Hainbach]

The saturation is sooooo good though! We really worked on making it the best so far. It is honestly a new level. And the crackle when it breaks up is hard to replicate else.

[@BF-up5xw]

@@Hainbach I can't argue with that!

[@SNST3184]

coming right from the insta live :)

[@Steinwelt]

Somehow the destorted Piano reminded me of a very distorted Minecraft Soundtrack

[@raininbrain]

epic sound

[@nystada]

I love Tim Hecker too ❤

[@billypilgrim1]

I'm still to watch the rest of the video but the UI is beautiful

[@daccrowell4776]

The CR-4A emulation is spot-on! Sounds and behaves pretty much like the ol' radioactive box itself! Lock-in mode, too...all the destroyed audio tastiness of my EG&G is there. Brings up an interesting point: why not create a NIM BIN virtual device that lets you swap modules ala VCV Rack? True, some NIMs don't music...but there's enough that do out there. Orrrrrrr...maybe a line of VCV modules based on NIMs? That's something people would probably pay for as a module pack. AND...you'd be introducing new musicians to the wonder of what they can do to one's sound. Wins all the way around!

[@Hainbach]

Yeah interesting idea! It would be fun to make this a whole virtual lab at some point

[@robst247]

Fascinating. Going under the hood, how did you mathematically model all the different transfer functions of the original hardware? Is that a trade secret that you prefer not to reveal?

[@Hainbach]

Yeah that is one thing we won’t spill. 😎

[@lapsang6]

🔥🤩awesome!

[@setaihedron]

I wish there was a way to bring these plug-ins into Berna 3.

[@marcwerdelmann362]

Yes. That would be very cool, but I also love to mangle my Berna sessions afterwards with Dials, Lines, Wires an the like in a daw. And now Arguments, of course. I really admire the tools from Giorgio and also the limited vintage workflow, but it would be even cooler he would give us at least the possibility to use everything in a modern setup. So you have both worlds. Giorgio is stubborn.

[@sawtoothwave]

Looks amazing, Hainbach! Question: is there any way to actively play the oscillator pitch… via midi perhaps (or in a forthcoming version)? It would be amazing to be able to tune it to a specific note and from there use it as a synthesizer voice, in addition to all the other stuff it can do…

[@Hainbach]

That is the struggle we always face - you can't play notes on an effect. Just not build into the VST standard. I personally dream of an instrument build on the oscillator we made here, so that might come.

[@sawtoothwave]

​@@Hainbach That makes sense even though it's a shame! I wonder if there's some kind of way to use, e.g. a rack of Live devices to set up stepped modulation of the pitch knob to correspond to a chromatic scale, and then to send MIDI notes from another track into that rack... actually, this has me thinking, even just having a mode where you could lock the oscillator frequency to chromatic in addition to free would make that a lot easier because there wouldn't need to be as much precision in the incoming modulator signal... maybe for a future version... this is all academic because of course I'm buying this plugin, it sounds rad as heck. It's just doing what all good instruments do: getting me imagining the possibilities!

[@theh0r5e90]

that's so cool

[@lprophit]

reminds me of audiothing wave box both in look and i distortion sound

[@shinyisshiny7780]

what is that instrument at 6:06?? never seen anything like it in my life.

[@Hainbach]

You mean the Fender Precision Bass?

[@Projacked1]

wOOOH, THAT'S NICE!!!

[@chadweiske]

Anyone know what eurorack modules do this kind of stuff? I'd imagine Maths/Rampage having some of these capabilities, but getting the filtering and saturation all happening in one module, I'm curious.

[@Hainbach]

Look at Collide 4, you can have some overlap

[@chadweiske]

@ good to know, it is now wishlisted.

[@syverjove]

Now Hainbach can sound like Reznor

[@BeyondTyrants]

I wouldn't have pegged you for a Stratocaster player. You strike me as more of a Jazzmaster kind of guy.

[@senilyDeluxe]

10:00 sounds like the microphone kid me made from a tin foil membrane and a nail, a battery and a speaker. It could produce cool feedback tho.

[@colourbasscolourbassweapon2135]

i would used it for dubstep growls or bases and stuff no cap

[@ringsystemmusic]

hey this says the app isn't available in my country or region (US) on iOS app store

[@Hainbach]

Damn, that is just Apple being Apple. They say it’s ready but they roll out in different countries in different times.

[@ringsystemmusic]

@@Hainbach yeah that scans. Gonna be using this more on my computer anyways- I need a master bus skronkler for techno.

[@carlocastellano]

Yeah!

[@votekmendo6485]

anything really close to that in eurorack?

[@Hainbach]

Closest is probably Collide 4for some of the functionality kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3-4intpe6qHmMksi=wEojQUR81UHhIJn3

[@votekmendo6485]

@@Hainbach i mean for the crunchy, gritty, desintegrated distorted sounds you get out of this one. ABSOLUTELY BONKERS!!!! Need something exacly like that in Euro or any suggestions for similar vibe. I WILL get the plugins but i'm not using my computer for music since a few years

[@michaellyle8769]

my cat ran out at 13:51

[@micheleisoni]

Say hello to Petr Valek in vast format

[@PaulBoos]

I miss my R-100

[@GiovahPerez]

I want to buy all your sweater so cool .. nice men God bless you all HAin

[@clementinelives]

🔥🔥🔥

[@MichaMaschiene-jd8wd]

Guitar 🎸 sounds like Punkrock Band in early 80ies 🎉😮

[@Hainbach]

Kind of my fav guitar sound 😀

[@MichaMaschiene-jd8wd]

@Hainbach 🙏

[@mustakatu]

Oh yes.

[@HA11EYS_COM3T]

So it’s like Funky distortion

[@Hainbach]

Yeah, and a softly spoken tone generator

[@pongtrometer]

Ballistic

[@billcosgrave6232]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@ivancrespogomez5777]

half-life

[@johngordon7625]

Absolutely,,, Filthy! Take my money, nope, go on.. take it!!

[@DerekPower]

This could have been very useful for a forthcoming album. Oh well … maybe next time? 😉 =]

[@richsackett3423]

I don’t like plug-ins. Roger Nichols still owes me money.

[@Hainbach]

I will be sure to tell him if our passes cross!

[@blindianajones]

Kinda tired of the product and esoteric rare gear vids. I really enjoyed the music technique and playing and older videos from a few years ago more than all the past year or so vids. I get it that money has to be made but this channel now feels a bit too commercial.

[@Hainbach]

You might have missed this: The Psychedelic Sound of Magnetic Tape Flanging kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3WYZKd6hMl5e80

[@blindianajones]

@@Hainbach Thanks for replying and I did catch that one and really enjoyed it.

[@blindianajones]

@@Hainbach Wanted to be a bit more specific. The videos I enjoy are the ones with techniques and gear that are available and not so expensive. Esoteric gear and Nagras are not affordable and the techniques are not really transferrable to other gear. I love your vids from years ago showing off how to use pedals or how you patch eurorack modules. I pretty much stick with eurorack and some lower priced hardware, so I dont get much from software or expensive gear. Thanks again for replying.

[@AkkarisFox]

Sorry I don't have $39 to spend and I don't have a job and I don't want to get a job I'm not going to get a job I'm not going to stand for 8 hours with seething pain in my legs I'm just going to stay on disability I'm not going to buy your plugin

[@Hainbach]

Sorry to hear you are in bad state. All the best

[@AkkarisFox]

@@Hainbach thanks. also the cia is making a neural map of the world by spying on pokemon go players kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4fQi6xvatuAi8Usi=Re6tQj05Lnf6HGIP