Well, Maybe not

Okay... maybe not the ONLY file. I ewas playing some lounge music, and laughingly picking out a few songs here & there that might be funny to play as a Halloween podcast.

Didn't really find enough songs to do an actual podcast, or anything... But I did get to thinkin' that after my 'Pirates of the Exotic Caribbean', and finally realizing the complete 'Exotic Haunted Mansion'... see last blog posting below...

...that I never have made an 'Exotic Sounds To Make You Shiver'!

I mean, 'Sounds To Make You Shiver' is still my favorite Halloween record of all time... (grab it now at WonderfulWonderblog) and surely it deserves the same mocking-praise that I've heaped on others. OF course I did the 'Sounds and Music To Make You Shiver' for last Halloween -- but that was done (mostly) seriously, with scary music in the background.

Well, this one isn't! Click here for: "Swingin' Sounds To Make You Shiver"

Mellow and Lo Fi

These are the sounds I love to make... turn things choppy & 'dirty'-- toss in a mellotron string-orchestra to make the tune retro...

Following are two of my favorite VST programs-- one, an effect called 'Lo Fi Plus' by Subtek, the other a sample based mellotron emulator by Batsounds called the "Mellowsound"...

The Subtek "Lofi PLUS"
The Batsounds "Mellowsound"


These are VST programs & will require some kind of VST host to be used.


Both of these, being such simple programs, were freeware-- free for the taking on various websites. Neither of them is available any more-- the subtek website & the batsounds website both appear to be gone... I assume they've gone out of business.

If I am wrong, please let me know.. if you are the creator of either of these programs, and you don't wish me to be sharing them. Please let me know, and I'll remove the link.

BUT-- these were given away free for years on the KVRaudio site, as well as on the sites of the guys who created them.... so I really don't think they should mind these VST's still being available free. At least, I hope not.

The lofi PLUS has some amazing qualities to it-- Not sure how to describe it; except that it adds noise and reverb, but mixes them in a very unusual way... it can take a really clean tone, and make it sound distorted or old, or-- my favorite thing---create a very weird ringing 'harmonic' effect. It does some cool nastiness to a crappy-sounding 8 bit mono drum-machine sample! Makes it sound even crappier... but in a GOOD way!

The "mellowsound" is just a sample based synthesizer, utilizing (I think) genuine samples to recreate the sound of that great instrument of the psychedelic 1960' s-- the MELLOTRON! (Which was just a sampler, itself, really...) -- Sadly, it doesn't have the FLUTE, that great Strawberry-fields mellow flutey intro, sob....

Anyway... Got sick of not having these plug-ins on my new PC, so I scoured the web until I found them-- and I never want to do without them again, so here they are on my blog, hopefully to be freeware forever. Get 'em while you can.