Woodmans Immaculate Maple Syrup Studio have reduced the price of a couple of products for a limited time, WoodTroller for iOS and WoodPressor for MacOS. WoodTroller has been reduced from $11.99 to $8.99, whilst WoodPressor has been reduced to $49.99, (usually $99.99).
WoodTroller
It’s an MPE multi touch bar keyboard and midi controller :
The MPE touch bar supports multiple notes with individual pitch shift (horizontal movement), pressure and cc74 (vertical movement).
WoodTroller has 8 general purpose rotary controls:
- Each can send 6 different CC messages to different channels.
- Each of the 6 command values can be mapped differently to the full rotary range.
- So 1 rotary can control several parameters on the same or on different instruments.
- Rotary names, colour, unit, range can all be user set.
WoodTroller also has 8 general purpose on-off or push buttons:
- Each button can send up to 8 different midi commands (CC, PC, NoteOn, …) to different channels.
- This allows to quickly switch multiple midi instruments or devices to another program or to other settings.
- Each midi command’s data value can be auto incremented/decremented.
- All button names, colour, type can be user set.
All settings can be stored in presets in iCloud which yield automatic preset syncing between several WoodTrollers on different devices.
WoodPressor
Woodpressor is a high-end audio compressor.
Although the standalone app can be used as such, it is mainly intended as the license for the AAX, AU and VST plugins which can then be used by any DAW on all your Macs (as long as the standalone app is downloaded from the Mac App Store on that Mac).
Woodpressor has all the classic compressor controls like “Threshold”, “Attack”, “Release”, “Ratio”, etc but also has some extra features not commonly found on other compressors :
- True Auto gain to compare the compression effect only (and not have the “Louder sounds better” effect)
- Adaptive Threshold (allows to still have compression in the more quiet parts of a very high dynamic vocal)
- Tube saturation (Class A and Class AB controls) and a more crude distortion.
- Non-linear Release
- Side chain filter (bandpass, highpass, lowpass or notch)
- Makeup Gain Limiter
- Brick-wall Limiter
- Works on any number of channels (Surround Sound , 3D audio, …) with an individual weight per channel.
Apart from the DAW foreseen presets, Woodpressor can save/load it’s own user presets which are written to iCloud Drive (when enabled).This makes them automatically available (and synced, and backed-up) on all MacOS or iOS devices (to all host apps or DAW’s) running Woodpressor.
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