Blood Bucket

Music can be completely composed on a computer nowadays, thanks to the variety of processors, and dedicated applications which are perfectly able to mimic real life instruments. Additional effects can be used to fine tune audio, or completely alter instruments. A suitable example here is Blood Bucket, which aims to modulate, and oscillate sound through different controls.

Note that the package does not deploy a stand-alone application, but rather contains the required library component to integrate into a suitable VST host, with an abundance of available choices, just like VSTHost.

It’s automatically routed to audio output, but it can just as easily be configured, and routed wherever needed. Sound is processed in real time, whether it comes from virtual device, or actual MIDI device input.

The set of controls consists of a couple of oscillators, as well as two modulators, with a main control rig for general output. Oscillators are fitted with several different preset algorithms, while modulators provide waveforms like sawtooth, sine, ramp, triangle, pulse, white noise, and pink noise.

Some variety can be obtained, because of dedicated controls for each component. Delay, and reverb are configured through ADSR sliders, with pitch to adjust tone. A built-in waveform graph comes in handy for real time analysis of emitted audio frequencies.