May
04
2010
When HAL died in pitch shifting madness
Sean Costello – the mastermind behind the wonderful (and cheap) eos reverb plug-in made by audio damage (in case you haven’t heard of it, I recommend you to get it, it’s a killer for the price) – has a really nice blog called “the halls of valhalla” where he discusses various topic related to his dsp work.
Following the release a couple of month back of a free delay with a unique pitch shifting feature -definetly another grab- he started looking back at various techniques used to achieve pitch shifting… including the wonderful scene of HAL’s death in 2001 (that I didn’t know was the making of wendy carlos).
Sean post seldomly but every post is worthwhile.. he balances high tech & simple explanation in wonderful ways…
3 Comments
Leave a CommentMichael.
hey – thx! nice post, good information!
May 4, 2010 @ 9:33 pm
Sean Costello
Thanks for the kind words! One correction: In my original post, I had written the part about Carlos’ work with the analog pitch shifters pretty poorly. Carlos didn’t work on 2001, but was relaying a story told to her by Stanley Kubrick about the making of 2001. My wife thought that Carlos had worked on 2001 after reading my post, so I have updated it to reflect that Carlos’ 2001 story was a 3rd person anecdote.
See, this is why I don’t post that often. Writing stuff has always been like pulling teeth to me. I can get to the point where the text flows a bit more freely, but then I get sloppy. I’m more comfortable coding nowadays, where I am even sloppier, but I have time to correct my mistakes before anyone hears the results.
May 4, 2010 @ 9:57 pm
Marc Nostromo
Hey Sean,
I’m very sloppy myself with getting facts right so I’ll certainly won’t be the one to blame you for incoherences. On top of that, I consider blogs like your as inspirational writing rather than the source for the absolute truth. I’m not looking at doing copycat acts anyways and who knows in what new positive territories one inconsistency might lead ?
So please, write more
/M
May 4, 2010 @ 10:05 pm
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