Noulakaz

The blog of Avinash, Christina, Anya and Kyan Meetoo.

RIP Serge Lebrasse, the king of sega

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Serge Lebrasse, one of the greatest sega singers ever in the history of Mauritius, passed away early in the morning today, Thursday 6 April 2023.

I grew up singing songs like “Madame Eugene” and “Banane” with family members. We still do whenever we meet. Many (most?) in the family will be devastated hearing this sad news…

I had the privilege to meet Serge Lebrasse, for the last time, during an event in 2020. He was 90 at that time but we had a nice conversation and we took a few beautiful photos (one of which is above)…

For those of you who would like to pay respect to this monumental artist, you can go to Elie & Sons in Beau-Bassin as from 11:00 today.

The Blue Penny is a good Mauritian movie

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Just finished watching “The Blue Penny”, a Mauritian movie by Jon Rabaud and with a Mauritian group of actors. I really liked the movie. It’s very well made. Bravo to everyone involved.

I’ve been following Mauritian movie makers and actors for a few years now and I’m impressed by what Mauritians can create. We can dream big now.

Looking forward to many more Mauritian creations in the future. And, of course, a proper movie making industry emerging.

Ale Moris :-)

So many saturation and “mangling” plugins…

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I have a lot of saturation plugins and I need to properly evaluate them:

  • Baby Audio Parallel Aggressor
  • Black Box Analog Design HG-2
  • Black Box Analog Design HG-2MS
  • Elysia Karacter
  • Elysia Phil’s Cascade
  • Fuse Audio Labs Flywheel
  • NEOLD BIG AL
  • Softube Saturation Knob
  • Solid State Logic SSL Native X-Saturator
  • SPL Vitalizer MK2-T
  • United Plugins Autoformer
  • Vertigo VSM-3
  • Waves Abbey Road Saturator
  • Waves BB Tubes
  • Waves J37 Tape
  • Waves Lil Tube

I have also a lot of plugins to completely transform the audio into something completely different:

  • Cableguys DriveShaper (ShaperBox 2)
  • Cherry Audio Voltage Modular Ignite 2 FX
  • DS Audio Tantra 2
  • iZotope Stutter Edit 2
  • iZotope Trash 2
  • iZotope Vinyl
  • Klevgrand DAW Cassette
  • Softube Dirty Tape
  • Unfiltered Audio BYOME
  • Unfiltered Audio Dent 2
  • Unfiltered Audio Fault (Pitch and Time)
  • Unfiltered Audio Indent 2
  • Unfiltered Audio Needlepoint
  • Unfiltered Audio SpecOps (Spectral Effects)
  • Waves Berzerk Distortion
  • Waves MetaFilter
  • Waves MultiMod Rack
  • Waves OneKnob Filter
  • Waves Retro Fi
  • Waves Scheps Parallel Particles
  • XLN Audio RC-20 Retro Color

I wonder how I am going to choose which ones to use on a regular basis…