Free plugin developed for the KVR developers challenge. Designed to emulate Steve Reich's tape loop phasing technique, yet also expanded to a synth to further explorer this concept. More info and download from here:

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Introjector and Introjector Lite are extremely lightweight VST Instruments for Windows, designed as a sidekick to Black Magic. The simplest use is to load an existing Loop, and then Re-Sequence it using the onboard Sequencers. This can then automatically be recorded out ready to import into any other application which uses Loops. The Recordings are named by time created and stored in folders by BPM.

Black Magic:

* New set of kits & samples thanks to Nielzie - Many Thanks!
* Requested Feature - Sequencer Step Sizes are now automatable via midi
using CC 70-79, this is experimental though.
* CC 80 assigned to Stereo Width
* Master Section LED section corrected, lists were in the wrong order.
* Many Manual additions/corrections.
* A bank of presets added created by Lotuzia of LeLotusBleu. Many Thanks!
* PDF version of the manual added created by Jens available on the files
page. Thanks Jens!
* Default Bank updated for compatibility with v1.04

Black Magic Lite:

* Requested Feature - Sequencer Step Sizes are now automatable via midi
using CC 70-79, this is experimental though.
* CC 80 assigned to Stereo Width
* Many Manual additions/corrections.
* PDF version of the manual added created by Jens available on the files
page.

Available on your Files page.

Andy

"Black Magic is a really unique approach to rhythm and while it may share some characteristics with other "drum" vsts, I can't think of one that really does what it does. It is awesome for creating mountains of loops to feed into other apps (for slicing etc) while at the same time functioning as a highly controllable live drum machine\groovebox.
Highly recommended! "

thanks MusikMachine !

"Conclusion: The Black Magic Loop Generator from Homegrown Sounds is really awesome. It's huge fun to create loops and tinker around to this. I have as yet no comparable experience Plugin."

Google Translated version

"Fazit: Der Black Magic Loop Generator von Homegrown Sounds ist wirklich genial. Es macht riesigen Spaß damit Loops zu erzeugen und an diesen herum zu basteln. Ich habe bis jetzt noch kein vergleichbares Plugin erlebt."

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"Black Magic is a really unique approach to rhythm and while it may share some characteristics with other "drum" vsts, I can't think of one that really does what it does. It is awesome for creating mountains of loops to feed into other apps (for slicing etc) while at the same time functioning as a highly controllable live drum machine\groovebox.
Highly recommended! "

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"Overall, BM is an extremely deep and versatile instrument and it’s very deserving of the high marks I’m giving it."

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Black Magic Lite is the free little sister of Black Magic, a loop generating VSTi plugin for windows. With the ability to quickly randomize and save out looped WAVs, the Black Magic machines make building a unique sample collection easy and quick. Even though Lite has fewer features than the big version, all of the important ones have been retained, so it is a fully functional synth in it's own right. Upgrading to the big version will get a large collection of included samples, the ability to use your own and a hard compressor amongst other things.

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"Amazing plugin! Love it! I'm using it in my live PA this weekend :) " - Pheek

Black Magic is a unique loop workstation with the ability to generate diverse loops with a single mouse click. Furthermore a loop can instantly be recorded out to WAV, automatically named by BPM and timestamp. The idea developed to make sample based loops an easy and fun process, as loop creation is generally a time consuming process. Black Magic can also be used as a standard midi drum machine and also has the ability to jam with the individual sequences in real time. It has 10 Samplers each with its own sequencer and many adjustable parameters. It uses standard WAV files and ships with a large library of samples, but users can easily add their own. There is also a solid FX section which includes a Compressor/Limiter, Delay, SoundScaper, Flanger/Filter and Drive as well as many Modulation options including randomizers, a Modulation sequencer and an LFO.

Homegrown Complete includes the following 14 sample CD/DVD titles which amounts to around 10GB of samples:

• Organic Breakbeats
• Elemental Guitar Loops
• Radiance
• Alien Landscapes
• Alchemy
• Homegrown 800
• Full Frequency
• Guitar Textures
• Timbres
• Sand in the Sarnies
• Bubony
• Organic Chaos
• Frequency Arps

You can take as long as you want to download the files, after purchase they will permanently be in your Files section in your my account page.

EDIT: Now Added Homegrown Sitar Loops, using a Jerry Jones Electric Sitar.

EDIT: Now also added a large drumloop collection Acoustic Drum Grooves. The collection has 2,740 RX2 loops and 3,334 WAVs:

All sounds are real drum recordings made on a couple of kits and have many 'breakbeated' variations, plus a some heavy compression loops (like Organic Breakbeats) as well as a few single hits and a few fills.

Loops from this collection are used on the Frequency Arps demo

Testimonials

"This is a great deal. There is a huge and diverse amount of stuff in the collection, and the Homegrown piano VSTis are wonderful."

"EXCELLENT STUFF! Really melodic ambient pads. None of that reverb noise a lot of ambient collections consist of."

Homegrown Piano is based around 88 samples of a Steinway B Grand Piano which were recorded at medium velocity. It was developed like many other HGSounds products to be great for Ambient/Atmospheric music, though is useful as a standard Piano as can be heard with the Classical demos on the website. The 128 presets cover a diverse range of sounds from Standard, Honky Tonk, Bright, as well as many echo landscapes, high resonance/distorted, and synthetic instruments. Though it is primarily designed as a Piano, it is still a synthesizer at heart and as a result has plenty of experimental potential.

NOW UPDATED to V2 go HERE

This version is still available for backward compatibility.

The manuals are now in the process of being converted to Interactive Flash Walkthroughs for all Synths. They are also included in the synths install folder, so if you double click the manual it will open in Flash on your machine.

Here is the list of available manuals so far:

• Homegrown Piano
• Astralis Bionic (also relevant to Baby Bion)
• Astralis Bion
• Astralis Orgone (also relevant to Orgone Lite/Orgone CM)
• Astralis FX

This update primarily addresses issues when used on Multi-Core machines where Multi-Core is enabled in the host. Also an Interactive Flash manual has been added for easily finding relevant help. Here is a list of the main changes: