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Update (23rd Mar 2006): Yah, I know, it's been a while. Talk on the forum, introduce yourself and make happy with the itty bitty crowd. I'll do an update when I have some free time.

Anyway, things you might like:

InstaJungle 0.3

InstaJungle is a VST plugin I wrote a while ago to help me with beat slicing. It was first inspired by Bram's SupaTrigga (see link below), but the fact that they both buffer incoming audio and then slice it is the only thing they have in common. InstaJungle will let you slice beats on the fly, and let you play back different slices in the buffer with just the movement of a slider or the twist of a knob. It works best with a midi controller, since you don't want to be adjusting those parameters with a mouse at a gig, do you?

Instajungle has been updated to include some nifty things and fix some other things. Here's a basic list of new/fixed stuff in version 0.3

Added the option to change between two freeze modes - past and future. 'Past' is the old but still good way. 'Future' will start the buffer when the button is pressed, and continue recording until it is full.
Made the audio in the buffer always synced, so no matter when you freeze and unfreeze the buffer, the audio will never be out of sync.
Made the parameter values displayed in the host a little more useful.
Fixed some compatibility problems which affected Plogue Bidule, Cubase and FLStudio.

InstaJungle has been tested and is known to work in Abelton Live, Plogue Bidule, EnergyXT (both Stand Alone and VST) and Renoise on both OS X and MS Windows. This list is short only because I haven't had the time to test other environments. User feedback is greatly appreciated.

Before downloading, please read the notes.

Release	Date	Platform	Download
InstaJungle 0.3 (Most Recent)	November 2005	OS X	InstaJungle_03_osx.zip
InstaJungle 0.3 (Most Recent)	November 2005	MS Windows	InstaJungle_03_win.zip
InstaJungle 0.2	October 2005	OS X	InstaJungle_02_osx.zip
InstaJungle 0.2	October 2005	MS Windows	InstaJungle_02_win.zip
InstaJungle 0.1	August 2005	OS X	InstaJungle_osx.zip
InstaJungle 0.1	August 2005	MS Windows	InstaJungle_win.zip

Please note that I have disabled hot-linking because too many sites were just direct-linking to the downloads. If clicking on the download above just brings up this homepage again, please ensure that your browser is sending the referring site in the http headers. If that doesn't work, drop me a line and we'll work something out.

If you have any questions/feature requests/bug reports, could you please send them to instajungle@eml.cc

If you suddenly feel the need to be charitable and wish to donate to the future development of InstaJungle (or you want to grease my palms to get more features implemented), I can accept transfers though Paypal.

Backalley of Fame

I've received donations from the following generous parties:

Choice
popmusic.dk
Dblue

Special Thanks

Special thanks to Choice for the first donation to the development of InstaJungle. Thanks Choice, your generosity is much appreciated. Now I can buy Bidule to do more testing.

Thanks to all the beta testers who have provided feedback and bug reports

Best wishes,
Laurence Davies

Links

The InstaJungle Forum.

Dodgy Recordings is a friend's website. We've been known to make music.

Have a look at dblue's Glitch for a VST that makes IDM style, well, glitches.

Renoise is an awesome piece of music creation software.

Plogue Bidule is a modular audio thingy. It now exists in VST form as well as stand-alone. Very nifty.

Bram's SupaTrigga, which was the original inspiration for InstaJungle. He's got some other nice plugins too, my favourite is Cyanide.

VST is copyright to Steinberg Media Technologies.

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