AudioThing Hainbach Noises Plugin

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Post 03 Oct 2024

Here is a plugin that doesn't synthesize sounds but instead uses recorded sounds from test equipment of all kinds that was run through test equipment filters, and then you use the plugin to manipulate the sound.

Hainbach is a German synthesizer enthusiast who is a bit like the Youtube channel Look Mum/No Computer, and he a few years ago acquired lots of old test equipment and decided to see if he could use them to produced "synthesizer" sounds, and thus a type of music. He also has other sound samples which you can find out about on the website. It is on sale right now $39.



I want to get it, but I might have to wait. I'll see.
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Post 03 Oct 2024

ChulaCoola wrote:
03 Oct 2024

I want to get it, but I might have to wait. I'll see.
Aa. But if you wait it won’t be on sale any more. Just get it. They’ve recently updated and expanded the banks. (Not the banks that keep your money).
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Post 03 Oct 2024

I love Audio Thing but have to say, I find some of these Hainbach devices a bit disappointing. Noises is fine but it's really just field recordings dumped into a not-very-flexible UI (the "Trip" function on these devices in particular is a good idea that needs to be developed a lot further). You could make a way better version of Noises in a combinator very easily

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Post 03 Oct 2024

One of my favourite youtubers and his music is excellent. Comes across as being a pretty good guy as well.

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Post 03 Oct 2024

dvdrtldg wrote:
03 Oct 2024
I love Audio Thing but have to say, I find some of these Hainbach devices a bit disappointing. Noises is fine but it's really just field recordings dumped into a not-very-flexible UI (the "Trip" function on these devices in particular is a good idea that needs to be developed a lot further). You could make a way better version of Noises in a combinator very easily
Yes but these are recordings of actual test equipment, not simulations or emulations. Yes, I could probably come up with something on my many synths and effects, CV stuff I suppose even. But these are actual equipment sounds.

It is not for everyone though. I am into that stuff. I have a few pieces of test equipment.
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Post 03 Oct 2024

I sprung for the Noises plugin. Thanks MrFigg for spending my money for me!
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Post 03 Oct 2024

ChulaCoola wrote:
03 Oct 2024
dvdrtldg wrote:
03 Oct 2024
I love Audio Thing but have to say, I find some of these Hainbach devices a bit disappointing. Noises is fine but it's really just field recordings dumped into a not-very-flexible UI (the "Trip" function on these devices in particular is a good idea that needs to be developed a lot further). You could make a way better version of Noises in a combinator very easily
Yes but these are recordings of actual test equipment, not simulations or emulations. Yes, I could probably come up with something on my many synths and effects, CV stuff I suppose even. But these are actual equipment sounds.

It is not for everyone though. I am into that stuff. I have a few pieces of test equipment.
The thing about test equipment is that it tries to get an almost perfectly clean signal. Therefore I don't get the intention behind sampling it. If you want a rather perfect signal nothing beats simple direct digital synthesis (with high enough oversampling) just in the box and thus not depending on any D/A or A/D converter in the process.
That way you can generate the cleanest possible sine/square/triangle/etc. with the highest possible long term stability and most perfect tuning and you don't have to invest significant amounts of engineering to get this in the analogue realm and then to sample it back into a digital system to then do some digital processing on it.

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Post 03 Oct 2024

jam-s wrote:
03 Oct 2024
ChulaCoola wrote:
03 Oct 2024


Yes but these are recordings of actual test equipment, not simulations or emulations. Yes, I could probably come up with something on my many synths and effects, CV stuff I suppose even. But these are actual equipment sounds.

It is not for everyone though. I am into that stuff. I have a few pieces of test equipment.
The thing about test equipment is that it tries to get an almost perfectly clean signal. Therefore I don't get the intention behind sampling it. If you want a rather perfect signal nothing beats simple direct digital synthesis (with high enough oversampling) just in the box and thus not depending on any D/A or A/D converter in the process.
That way you can generate the cleanest possible sine/square/triangle/etc. with the highest possible long term stability and most perfect tuning and you don't have to invest significant amounts of engineering to get this in the analogue realm and then to sample it back into a digital system to then do some digital processing on it.
It is just hearing what the test equipment sounds like. It is cool! Just like wanting to hear what the Sun sounds like, or what the planets or the moon sounds like. It sounds cool.
Besides potential to use it in music or just atmospheric stuff.
I am a bit of a electronics geek. This is like drugs are to some people.
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Post 03 Oct 2024

jam-s wrote:
03 Oct 2024

The thing about test equipment is that it tries to get an almost perfectly clean signal. Therefore I don't get the intention behind sampling it. If you want a rather perfect signal nothing beats simple direct digital synthesis (with high enough oversampling) just in the box and thus not depending on any D/A or A/D converter in the process.
That way you can generate the cleanest possible sine/square/triangle/etc. with the highest possible long term stability and most perfect tuning and you don't have to invest significant amounts of engineering to get this in the analogue realm and then to sample it back into a digital system to then do some digital processing on it.
You obviously haven't heard Noises. It has nothing to do with clean and pure waveforms. Check it out, then get back to us.

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Post 03 Oct 2024

huggermugger wrote:
03 Oct 2024
jam-s wrote:
03 Oct 2024

The thing about test equipment is that it tries to get an almost perfectly clean signal. Therefore I don't get the intention behind sampling it. If you want a rather perfect signal nothing beats simple direct digital synthesis (with high enough oversampling) just in the box and thus not depending on any D/A or A/D converter in the process.
That way you can generate the cleanest possible sine/square/triangle/etc. with the highest possible long term stability and most perfect tuning and you don't have to invest significant amounts of engineering to get this in the analogue realm and then to sample it back into a digital system to then do some digital processing on it.
You obviously haven't heard Noises. It has nothing to do with clean and pure waveforms. Check it out, then get back to us.
With all due respect, yes I have checked out and watched the video, listened to the samples. I know what I bought! Even the name says it all, Noises. I can't miss that fact.
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Post 04 Oct 2024

Yeah never understood this one. I mean I know some people make literally just like the sound of "noise", but I don't really get how it's an instrument. Maybe it could've been a sample pack, but then I wouldn't imagine you could charge too much for it - even if it is sampled from old rare gear.

That said, I'm not really a fan of any of the Hainbach stuff - except I do own Wires, which I just consider a different "flavour" of Reels - my favourite AudioThing plugin.

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Post 04 Oct 2024

The Moon Echo plugin is pretty interesting (to me), but all of the Hainbach stuff is pretty esoteric. You kind of have to be in that experimental lo-fi analog vibe to appreciate them. Watching his videos as he coaxes sounds out of old Soviet-era synths and devices not intended for music is, well, I dunno if I personally would call it inspiring, but it is an expansive feeling to see possibilities even where they aren't immediately obvious.

I have Noises. For me, it's best used as texture, but usually modulated in some way, I don't just run the plugin as-is.

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Post 04 Oct 2024

huggermugger wrote:
03 Oct 2024
You obviously haven't heard Noises. It has nothing to do with clean and pure waveforms. Check it out, then get back to us.
OK, after now having watched the video I see that he's using noise generators from test equipment and other obscure sources. This was not especially clear from the write-up (marketing mumbo-jumbo?) in the OP.

I think if you'd want to have something like this plugin in Reason, you could simply sample some noise yourself and place it into grain and have pretty much the same fun.

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Post 04 Oct 2024

It's worth remembering that you can load your own samples into Noises, which can take it places other than abstract noise.

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Post 05 Oct 2024

Some sounds in the video remind me of Thor’s noise oscillator

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Post 05 Oct 2024

jam-s wrote:
04 Oct 2024
huggermugger wrote:
03 Oct 2024
You obviously haven't heard Noises. It has nothing to do with clean and pure waveforms. Check it out, then get back to us.
OK, after now having watched the video I see that he's using noise generators from test equipment and other obscure sources. This was not especially clear from the write-up (marketing mumbo-jumbo?) in the OP.

I think if you'd want to have something like this plugin in Reason, you could simply sample some noise yourself and place it into grain and have pretty much the same fun.
Yes, I would like to try that sometime. I don't have a lot of test equipment, but it doesn't have to be test equipment. Other noises would do just fine as well. I downloaded a bunch of sound samples from a free download site quite a while back. I might try those sometime.
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Post 05 Oct 2024

huggermugger wrote:
04 Oct 2024
It's worth remembering that you can load your own samples into Noises, which can take it places other than abstract noise.

Oops, I meant to reply to this post, I replied to Jam-s' post.

Yes, I want to try that at some point.

I always imagine using these sounds for doing a soundtrack for instance a science fiction movie based on the Berserker novel series or Greg Benford's Galactic Center series of science fiction novels on a similar topic, machines exterminating all life in the universe.
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Post 05 Oct 2024

GlitchMachines has a couple of free sound packs, and if you know GlitchMachines, you know their sounds could make good raw material for Noises. :D

https://glitchmachines.com

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Post 06 Oct 2024

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Looks like Noises and Wires were used on Alien Romulus :thumbup:

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Post 06 Oct 2024

I believe I saw a mention of its use in Alien somewhere, probably in AudioThing website. That is pretty cool.
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