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Cycling ’74 developed Pluggo in a quest to deliver a ton of highly
interesting plug-ins at a modest price. With a wide range of sound design
possibilities, Pluggo 3.1 will fill up your plug-in folder with infinite
possibilities for sound tweaking — all within a single install.
Pluggo offers a real-time interactive audio
processing, modulation, and synthesis environment that works right inside your
favorite audio app or DAW with effects like delays, filters, pitch
effects, distortion, granulation, spectral effects, modulators, multi-channel
effects, synthesizers, audio routing, reverb and dynamics, and visual display.
Pluggo definitely offers something
for every sound palette, including additive synths, analog-modeling
drum and percussion synths, theremins, sampling, granular synthesis, FM
synthesis and wavetable synthesis. You can combine all of these instruments
with pluggo effects plug-ins and modulator plug-ins and tap into a world of sonic
possibilities that are seemingly inexhaustible.
The Never Ending Plug-in
Pluggo is truly limitless and you can chain
your favorite plug-ins together to either consolidate space or create your own
custom sounds. The shameless abundance offered up through Pluggo is made possible by the power of Cycling ’74’s Max/MSP audio processing
system and its plug-in development tools. Pluggo uses a run-time version of
Max/MSP, and since all of the Pluggo plug-ins run within the same environment, they work
behind the scenes as you smoothly program away in your sequencer.
For example, the PluggoSync plug-in listens to an audio click track, then tells
other plug-ins where the beat is, and the PluggoBus system lets plug-ins send up
to eight channels of audio to each other — exploding the limitation of one
or two outputs per plug-in audio sequencers. Pluggo also offers a set of
Modulators — plug-ins that let you mess with the parameters of other
plug-ins in limitless ways.
Pluggo 3 additionally includes nineteen new Essential
Instruments for your pleasure, as well as M2M, a plug-in that converts MIDI
information into modulation data to change the parameters of other plug-ins.
MIDI-ready and AU, VST and RTAS Compatible
Joining the original
Cycling ’74 plug-ins like Feedback Network, Tapped Delay, and Swish, are over 19
new yummy instrument plug-ins offered up in a variety of flavors for you for use
in your AU, VST, or RTAS host application, and Pluggo plug-ins can
send and receive MIDI information.
Pluggo 3 supports host synchronization for Audio Units and VST host
applications, and for beat-synchronized parameter changes, sample-accurate tempo
sync for a plug-in’s modulating LFOs, and tempo-relative settings for
plug-in parameters like delay time. Refer to the table to the lower right so see which features are supported on various Mac OS X host applications.
What Else Do You Need?
Pluggo will work in host audio apps that support Audio Units,
VST, or RTAS plug-ins, on a Power Mac computer running system 10.2 (G4 or
G5 processor is recommended).
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Cycling 74 Pluggo 3.0
Plugs for Pluggo
“Pluggo is the best 74 bucks I ever spent on a plug-in,” says Charlie Clouser, Grammy-nominated composer/programmer/remixer and engineer for bands like
NIN, Rob Zombie and
Helmet, and television composer for NBC’s Las Vegas and CBS’s “Numbers.”
“It’s so great, that those guys could have tacked another zero on the end of the price tag and it would still be well worth it.”
For sound design, composition, remixing and producing, sound designer,
remixer/producer/composer/engineer Richard Devine uses everything he can get his
hands on. “I use Logic Audio quite a bit, Reaktor, Supercollider, Cycling
’74’s Max/MSP and Pluggo, GRM Tools, CDP, Soundhack, Soundmaker, Bias Peak,
Metasynth and Symbolic Sound’s Kyma,” he says.
| Application | Host Sync | MIDI Input | MIDI Output | Automation |
| Cubase SX (1 and 2) |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Nuendo |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Digital Performer 4.1 |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Live 3.x |
yes |
no |
no |
yes |
| Logic Audio 6.x |
yes |
yes |
no |
yes |
| Max/MSP |
no |
yes |
yes |
n/a |
| Pro Tools 6.1 |
soon |
yes |
no |
yes |
| Spark 2.x |
no |
no |
no |
n/a |
| Soundtrack |
no |
no |
no |
no |
| Peak 4.x |
no |
no |
no |
n/a |
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