#516

Much appreciated! We’re finally releasing our spatializing granular reverb, Silo, in March. I can’t wait to share this one with y’all.

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#517

Ooh very interesting.

Totally superficial… but that Sonar like graphic (and colour palette) is :ok_hand: :sparkles:

Can you reveal any information on the spatializing side (Binaural? Quad?) or is it all top secret at present?

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#518

Very excited to hear this! Your work has pretty much shaped my music over the last 6 months haha

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#519

At the moment, it’s stereo only. The DSP is easily extendable to n channels, but we’re doing stereo now for two primary reasons:

  1. Negotiating channel management in DAWs is a whole different mess. There are a lot of things that we would need to test, which leads me to…
  2. Because we’re all stuck at home, we don’t really have access to any facilities to do all of the use case testing that we would need.

On the spatializer, you can see that there are two sets of rules. One is the algorithm used to position the grain. There are a bunch of these. The other sets how the space is simulated (using distance cues selected from combinations of doppler, filtering, etc.)

The grains are then sent to one of ten reverb algos. We have all sorts of fun ways to set how many of the grains go to the reverb. You can send them via probability to the reverb, via euclidean mask, or more. Also, I forgot to mention there’s also a euclidean mask option when generating the grains in the first place.

Another great feature is it supports MIDI in. If you hold down multiple notes, grain transposition will be determined per-grain from the list of grains.

This is my favorite plugin that we’ve made, and I had almost nothing to do with it :laughing: Josh made this as his pandemic project while I wrapped up Bass Mint and lo-fi-af, which is a lo-fi toolkit slated for the middle of the year. He was anxious that Silo wasn’t going to be any good, so I put together an awful arp in VCV and sent him this:

That’s awesome to hear, and deeply appreciated!

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#520

Cool stuff, I look forward to trying it :slight_smile:

Also lo-fi-af intrigues me just from the name :smiley:

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#521

I love all my unfiltered plugins. They get daily use and are among my favorites!!

@trickyflemming have you ever considered making a sequencer?

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#522

Looks cool, I’ve been a fan of Unfiltered since the early days of your first delay, Sandman. Will it be a part of the Plugin Alliance all in package? I do the monthly subscription.

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#523

We considered naming it something more professional, but it was the only thing that matched the vibe of the plugin! @papernoise is doing the graphic design for it, and it’s looking lovely. We sent him a mood board that consisted of a laser tag venue, the Portland airport carpet, and a Jazz Solo cup.

We’ve definitely considered it. Between Loomer’s mighty Architect (Loomer Architect Modular MIDI Toolkit VST AU AAX), Numerology (Five12), and HY-Plugins, I think that there are a ton of amazing options already available (HY’s SeqCollection2 in particular feels a lot like the workflow that we aim for: HY-SeqCollection2 – HY-Plugins). When Bitwig’s Grid adds MIDI out, I’m not sure you’ll see me for a while :laughing:

That said, we are releasing our first Eurorack module this year. I did an interview with SynMag, so the details on that should be published I think sometime in the next month or two. If it goes well, there are definitely a few things I’d want to pursue there.

Yes, absolutely! Everything we make is in the MEGA bundle. Almost everything we make is in the Mix-and-Master bundle as well except for LION (since it’s an instrument). I don’t have control over what makes it into the smaller bundles, but everything is in the MEGA bundle.

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#525

you say when, not if. Do you know something I don’t? or is this official?

I look forward to see what euro stuff you got coming! :slight_smile:

#526

I wish! I’m just on the Bitwig Users Discord a lot. It’s talked about so frequently that it almost seems inevitable at this point.

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#527

wut! this looks incredible

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#528

would this be in-line with grm tools space grain plugin?

#529

I’ve been lucky enough to have some time with the new @trickyflemming plug and it is indeed a really special one.

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#530

I couldn’t say how much it compares, as neither of us have used it. I have the GRM Tools except for the Space package.

#531

yeah, no worries. will stay tuned, looks very cool so far

#532

I’m looking for recommendations for old-timey-izers (I use “old-timey” as a verb now). this is to take voice actors and put them in spaces evoking the first half of the century - it’s for the upcoming season two of this podcast.

I’ve been using Altiverb, Speakerphone, Soundtoys, iZotope Vinyl, and XLN RC-20. I’m currently looking at picking up some of Audio Thing’s plugins in this genre (especially Wires and Speakers). anything other suggestions?

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#533

The Audio Thing plug-ins first came to mind (Wires, Speakers, Reels). iZotope Vinyl never totally does what I want it to do but I do use it from time to time. Also good room reverb will help a lot with space.

Do you have RX? Not sure if this is backwards thinking, but, when scrubbing audio and de-noising there is the option to monitor only the output of the noise. If you process while monitoring this, it will create an audio track of just the noise you’re trying to remove. So you could always try this on an old sound source and then mix it in with your dialogue (in addition to the plug-ins). Just a thought.

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#534

you are going to laugh but I’ve already tried this - there’s too many residual artefacts for this to work the way you would hope though. far easier to find some stretches that are just noise and loop that underneath :slight_smile: also Speakerphone comes with a nice variety of noises.

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#535

Might chowdsp tape come in handy?

#536

There’s also McDSP’s Futz Box which is like Speakerphone in many ways. I would think that Wire might be a bit OTT. WavesFactory Cassette is another nice old old-timey-izer.

I just watched Mank which is fascinating for its overt use of obsolete artifacts of film sound. I heard that it’s in mono and that they limited the frequency range to that of the soundtrack of Citizen Kane. Apparently they played the film back in a room like an old movie palace (the Scoring Stage at Skywalker Sound) and rerecorded it to add a theatrical effect to the whole track. I was much less aware of this at the beginning, than at the end of the film. Not sure if that was because it was growing in intensity gradually, or if I just became more aware of it over time. There are many edits where the sound drops out between sentences or other joins, as if the film was made without any fill track that keeps the spaces from being silent. What they didn’t do as far as I can tell, is add surface noise, like optical track hiss or crackle and pops from scratches. There is a nice sheen of distortion on everything.

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