S-Tek Live Video at Military Base Niederlehme

A Cool Video from my latest Gig on the Event "Electro Funken" near Berlin Germany. It was on an old Military Base at Niederlehme Brandenburg. Thanks to all for the Great Party. I had a lot of fun with the crowd there.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sze2bvT32s

My Energy-XT Skin for download

My new fav Sequencer Energy XT(lol ok, i bought it for 49USD two years ago) comes with a cool option to change the colors and make it individual for your own taste.





If u like my skin feel free to load and use it.
I will change and update it from time to time, but this is the skin i currently use these days.

Download
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13610593/S-Tek.xtl

I bought the DDMF Linear Phase Mastering EQ(LP10) incl. M/S Option

DDMF's LP10 is a 10 band(from minimum over linear to inverse minimum phase, the only EQ who can do that!) linear phase mastering EQ. With his FFT algorithm and a frequency resolution of 2.7 Hz at 44.1 kHz the sampling frequency guarantees a smooth frequency response. It also comes with an Analyzer.

And the Best is the cheapest price of 20$ via paypal.

You have to try it out, and also all other plugins from ddmf

Link: http://www.ddmf.eu/product.php?id=1

09-12-2010 The World Techno Day!

I made a track for today the World Techno Day!

S-Tek - WTD010 by S-Tek

You can Download, Share and Comment the tune if u like it. otherwise Trash it! :D

http://soundcloud.com/s-tek/s-tek-wtd010

S-Tek - Verlorene Seelen

My new track "verlorene Seelen" with moving images from betty page(I dont know exactly ?) dancing indian downloaded via archive.org. All there is public domain or related content. It takes fun to cut some videos fit to the sound. =)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQRNa47xTbY

feel free to leave me a comment here or on youtube. and dont forgett to vote please :)

First Wintershooting

Courvoisier Free MS Dynamic Processing Plugin

myVST Demo: Courvoisier from myVST on Vimeo.

Courvoisier from weldroid! is a single-band universal dynamics processor with adaptive attack and release algorithms optimized for complex program material (mixes and submixes). Courvoisier uses free-form curves drawn over the histogram of incoming audio material (as opposed to traditional ratio and threshold parameters) to determine the transfer function of the processing.

- Histogram representation (sliding-window statistics)
of incoming program material and the resulting gain change
on which the transfer function can be drawn

- Free-form upward and downward compression and/or expansion
- Spline interpolated control curves
- Two different adaptive attack algorithms (program dependent)
- Adaptive release algorithm (program dependent, scalable)
- Additional user defined adaptive release behavior
- Side chain filtering (low and high pass)
- MS operation (with support for different transfer curves for Mid and Side channels)
- Stereo operation (adjustable stereo link)
- Dry mix option for parallel processing
- Peak, RMS and Hybrid level detection
- Very low harmonic distortion(below -105 dB FS)
- Lookahead processing for minimizing distortion with extremely fast attack settings
- Complex mode (oversampling with a twist)

weldroid! website
download here

Monolake + Rashad about Mastering

An Interesting article and interview by Robert Henke aka Monolake and Rashad Becker from Dubplates + Mastering Berlin about Mastering

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some intersting links I found in addition to the M/S Mastering part:
How to Use M/S Processing in Mastering

and much more interesting articles about making music and mastering can be found here:
http://audio.tutsplus.com

Techno History? - Arnold Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Method

Im sure this is another method where modern atonal music called techno comes from.
It is much interesting for all techno or generelly atonal music producers and synthesizer lovers.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5dOI2MtvbA

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and again in german



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpkA3JYO15Y

Audiocation Processing Plugins For Free

Audiocation is a german audio academy where the students worked on some nice plugins you can dowlnoad for free now.

The First plugin was the AC1 Bus Compressor a very useful Compressor with very very fast attack Attack-(10µs – 500ms) and Releasetime(50µs – 2s).



The second and new plugin is an cool parametrical Equalizer called AQ1 incl. the typical useful filters like: Lowpass, Highpass, Bandpass, Notch, Allpass, Peak, Lowshelf, Lowshelf A, Lowshelf B, Highshelf, Highshelf A, Highshelf B



Download https://www.audiocation.de/plugin

TAL Filter II

TAL released a complete new version of his great sounding Filter Plugin. Now you can use the incl. graphical editor to draw your own waveform/envelope for the filtertypes:
LP 24 dB, LP 18dB, LP 12dB, LP 6dB, HP 12 dB, BP 12dB, N 12 dB

DOWNLOAD
http://kunz.corrupt.ch/?Products:VST_TAL-Filter_II

Rioter Remix for Vegim Out with some other Big Names.

Artist Vegim
Title The Rioter
Remixers
Mike Humphries, Dean Rodell, Kazu Kimura, Patrick DSP, A Paul, S-Tek, Andreas Florin, Riyuji Takeuchi, Diarmaid o Meara, Luis Ruiz, Anthony Dupont, Jimmy T Kindt, Mirko S. and many more...
Label Take More Music Records
Release 18-11-2010

Press Release
Vegim is hitin' aggain with a massive smashing hot cake.
The original is hard, funky, offbeat, the kind that makes the crowd shake, its an earthquake on a club. The remixes, everything for everyone; Deep, spacey, funky, slower, harder, phater. This will be rioting on your sets.

Beatport


Juno UK

New cool virtual synthesizers

MassTURBOtar is a cool free synthesizer. check out the videos on the blog to see how cool this synth is.

you can edit patches from A to E and after that you can morph between your patches with the morph knob. thats fucking amazing and gives you more flexibility and creativity to create new sounds. I love it.

http://morfiki.blogspot.com/
Download

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http://www.delamancha.co.uk/FMMF.htm

I found some new cool freeware vst effects

thrummaschine is a 3-band distortion effect with independant, LFO-driven filters

download
http://www.delamancha.co.uk/thrummaschine.htm

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ring thing is a multi-flavour ring modulator, ... each axis modulated by it's own tempo-sync LFO

download
http://www.delamancha.co.uk/ring_thing.htm

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sfilter creates a stepped filtered sequence, to create gating, sweeps or rhythmic modulation of filter cut-off. An LFO can also modulate the filter for extra movement.

download
http://www.delamancha.co.uk/sfilter.htm

Cutout - Spiralregen (Audlab5)

Tresor Berlin LIVE PA

Tresor LIVE PA by S-Tek

Bootsy Nasty VCS Channelstrip

Variety of Sound aka Bootsy has added and released a new awesome sounding freeware tool to his plugins. The Nasty VCS is the try to make an analogue sounding channelstrip on digital plugin base. It sounds different, but you must remember: it is a digital plugin. But bootsy made a good job, it sounds not bad. Definitly must have this days!

Official Bootsy Press Release:
Inspired by the smooth dynamic and tone shaping capabilities of some high-end mixing consoles and channel strips, this plug-in implements the most distinctive and much appreciated sonic effects generated by these devices.

Variety of Sound Website

OUT NOW! New Release on Audiolabor Label

Artist. S-Tek & Cutout
Titel. Drahtseil EP
CatNo. AudLab1
Tracklist. S-Tek - Solist, Cutout - Balance

Press Release.
First Audiolabor with S-Tek and Cutout. Straight and High Quality Intelligent Techno with Soul.

S-Tek & Cutout - Drahtseil EP

My Robot Wars 1 Video on Youtube!

I've made a little Studio Video out of my Audiolabor today and call it
Robot Wars 1 You can watch it on Youtube and leave a comment! :)

Chartposition 1 in UK

I am on Chartposition 1 on Juno in UK with the latest Foot Fetish Records Compilation today.

New Family Member: DSI Evolver.

It was friday last week and we(me and my friend Bruce) visited our friend Jürgen(XTront) in his berlin based apartment to talk, hear some music and play with his hardware tools as he told me he wants to sell his little DSI Evolver with the Model No. 00526.

After 2 hours of play with it I decided to adopt this little kid from Jürgen. You can watch a first experience with it in our newest crazy Ag-Kw Video on Youtube:

All digital EQs are the same??? Fact & Myth

I've read THIS ARTICLE about the fact and myth of digital EQs on the net and I think you also could read it. It's a very impressive test about the magical sounding of digital EQs. And it shows you the theory about mathematical algorithims. But I remind it's a simple thing with matematics, we have only 1 and 0 on the digital plane. So I think the test approved to what I am imagined, because only the appearance, style and db/oktave of their filters are the different of digtial EQs.

http://rhythminmind.net/1313/?p=361

Fixed the trouble with my Waves Plugins

Few weeks ago, I have bought a new Computer in the end of 2009. Now I wanted to re-install all my plugins. All of them works fine, only my fucking expensive Waves Plugins dont work.

The Reason was the iLok authorization, that also never runs perfectly before. After 3 Days of tweaking and searching the web for my problem it works on mysterious way.

But even when I ask Waves on the website or by e-mail for support, they told me I must pay $110,00 again to be up to date with the "Waves Update Plan" to get Tech-Support. I'm fucked up with their politics and will never buy any new plugins from them for the rest of my life! This much i can say...

My collection of free software plugins

I work with both, hard- and software in my productions. Last time I noticed that more good sounding software especially free or open source plugins are on the net. I will show you few of them now:

PROCESSING
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Bootsy Plugins/Variety of Sound
Here we have a very good sounding compressor called "Density MKII" which I used in my latest productions and also some other good plugins like "BootEQ" or "EpicVerb"

DDMF
Good sounding EQ's and also a good sounding SSL Style Compressor.

Jeroen Breebart
I think he has the best sounding freeware "limiter" called "barricade" right now. But you can also check his other great sounding plugins like "pc-2", "ferox" or "time machine"

SYNTHS
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TAL - Togu Audio Line
They have great sounding emulations of classic synths like sh101(bassline) or uno-62(alpha juno60), or the very good Elek7ro - it is a huge killer synth.

S-Tek on the web...

you can also follow me on:

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uff...quite a few. It reminds me that I am an internet nerd HAHA! :D