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OSCalot: The OSC glue your DAW control rig needed!
How a live show problem turned into a free plugin BrooksAudio • March 2026 OSCalot running in Reaper The vision You’ve got a DAW running some playback content for your show. Over on the other side of the stage is a lighting desk, a QLab system...
Royal College of Art – Spatial Audio in Ableton course
In February 2026, I ran a ‘Spatial Audio in Ableton’ event at the Royal College of Art. I put together a bespoke training, focussing on informing and upskilling the trainers and tech staff at RCA so they can better support student’s spatial sound design...
BrooksAudio development update Feb 2026…
I wanted to give you a quick update on the forthcoming software which I'm developing for the Patreon community over here. These will all be available for free download for the All Access and VIP tiers in due course... PolyWave Surfer - the polywav metadata viewer,...
PrePosition development update
Just an update for those of you who are using PrePosition - there will be another update to version 2 (v 2.3) coming in the next week or 2, which adds DS100 functionality. You'll be able to pull back positioning information from the DS100 into an instance of...
Cosmicat Ableton @ Saudi Pavillion Osaka Expo 2025
It is great to be able to finally bring some more info about the Ableton live set work I did earlier in the year for Cosmicat’s recent run at the Saudi Pavilion, Expo 2025 in Osaka. The brief was to build the instruments to be controlled by Cosmicat, using the custom...
The world’s largest touch synth!
In October 2023, Simon Little from We Sound Loud secured a fantastic contract, working on a project alongside Unit9, on the launch of the Peugeot Allure E-3008. The brief was to build the world's largest touch controlled AV synth! The user control 'panel' consisted of...
Adam T5V as height speakers – DIY bracket install
This article will show you how to set up Adam T5V as height speakers using a bit of DIY! Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the images to accompany this blog post - there are a few of them! Here we go... Background Recently I upgraded my el-cheapo 7.1.4 spatial...
2022 Update!
What have you been up to Bill? It's been a while since the last blog update, and things have changed somewhat in that time! Aside from the return to normality post pandemic, I have been working more on consultancy work. This involved advising a large music industry...
March 2021… News
So here we are, almost 1/4 of the way through 2021 already! I hope this blog post finds you well. The promise of coming out of lockdown in the UK soon is filling me with some optimism, and the sun shining through my window at 1800 hours last night certainly lifted my...
2021… Update
Hey there! Hope this finds you well. Just a quick update for the start of 2021... The support for Brooks Audio is growing day by day! There is now have a Facebook group and Instagram account, and even a Tiktok! The Youtube channel also continues to grow steadily, both...
Videos
So we’ve reached a milestone! 100 subscribers at the Youtube channel means I can activate monetisation to make something minuscule from each view of the tutorial vids, but more importantly I get a proper link... youtube.com/c/brooksaudio!!! Having made all of the...
Programming Max: Structuring Interactive Software for Digital Arts
I've just started an amazing free course at Stanford University on programming Max MSP for interactive digital art. I've worked through the first 2 modules and feel like I need to shout about it! It's great, heartily recommend it to anyone wanting to learn more about...
Using Cassette with your DAW tutorial
Using cassette or other tape is a great way to make your digital synths and DAW tracks sound warmer and more unique, but it comes with problems. Analogue motors drift over time, so Bill explores some ways to realign your audio. Huge props to Sound Radix for an awesome...
Autosampling Tutorial
I've just published a new tutorial all about the new Logic Pro X Autosample function and how it can speed up samping a hardware synth in Ableton Live. Check out my Patreon page for an insight into what goes through my head when I put these things together......
Tutorial Video #1
So this week lots of things seem to have clicked into place. Not least of all the new logo and animated sequences landing in my inbox from my incredible sister! More of her work / showreel can be found here - https://clo-motion.com. This allowed me to wrap up the edit...