#447

Itā€™s fairly typical, similar to what you would see in Audio Damage Quanta. Drop a sample in, choose a sample index, scan rate/position/rnd. position, rate, size, shape, shape tilt, direction, stereo width, pitch, rnd. pitch. (all modulatable, of course)

One of the great things about Equator2 patches is all the layering. Picking the first patch that contains the word ā€œgranulatedā€ brings me to ā€œ100 Granulated Fairiesā€ and here we have three granular samples, a harp pluck, and two different slices out of a nylon guitar sample, with a synth pad, and strings going on in sample layers behind. All mapped to the dimensions of MPE. Like most patches in Equator2 I could just play this patch with no other accompaniment, effects, or post production, and keep myself entertained for hoursā€¦

Somewhat tangentially, Iā€™ve been playing with Matt Tytelā€™s Vital a bit, and there are some notable similarities. I can see where Vital has even more potential than Equator2 in some of its features, but at the moment the sound design that ROLI has invested in Equator2 patches exceeds that found in Vital. I have hopes that the Vital crew will catch up in this area over time.

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#448

thnx for the info. Iā€™m basically interested in the synth engine and not on the presets/sounds (Iā€™m only using my rec sounds). If the granular engine is similar to Quanta then OK. However, Iā€™m curious about some other specialized implementations of the whole synth, eg. routing the granular engine to modulate the FM engine (which otherwise looks rather simple) etc.

#449

Equator2 supports 6 oscillators, and any of them can be one of 2 FM modulators or 1 Ring Mod source for the wavetable engine. Itā€™s definitely not a DX7, but you can probably reproduce a wide variety of FM algos with this setup. That being said, the FM implementation doesnā€™t have modulator-specific envelopes, modulatable index/ratio, etc. Itā€™s a simplistic FM implementation.

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#450

Iris 2 sampler is only $10, a great sampler if your daw isnā€™t equipped, looking at you reaper people(myself included).

https://www.izotope.com/en/shop/iris-2.html

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#451

Iris 2 at $10 is a good deal even if you donā€™t use the synth but would like a large and offbeat sample library!

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#452

Ended up picking up a bunch of Goodhertz plugins, pretty impressed with them so far: the compressor sounds amazing on electric bass! There are still a few sales going on and Iā€™l be grabbing a few wavesfactory and izotope plugins this week.

#453

Just so people know the sale on Goodhertz is over so might as well wait for the next one if moneyā€™s an issue which right now it might be.

Fantastic plugins nonetheless, Iā€™ve got 4 of them and theyā€™ve got this tremendous quality that I know exactly what Iā€™m using them for and why, which is the greatest thing about a plugin for me.

Definitely among the ā€œsoftware makers people should supportā€.

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#454

Puremagnetik

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#455

I wound up picking up Clusters, Shadow, Parallax and Bitfight 83 :+1:

I was having some weird gain issues with them until I realized the effects are reacting to MIDI gates for some reason, boosting the gain when gated. :confused: Adding a MIDI filter in Bitwig in front of it clears it up.

Adding about 3 Shadows in series is fun :smiley:

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#456

I was made aware of Gullfoss the other day and took the chance to download the trial version. Wow, instant clarity to some dense mixes of my songs. Googling and reading up, I noticed that Starthief in this thread mentioned the recently launched TEOTE by Voxengo that, although using different techniques, also offers ā€œthe instant betterā€. (I understand this might be over-simplifying things, but Iā€™m a simple mind in engineering). Iā€™ll be checking out Teote as well. Both plugins are on sale right now, Teote ($50 with discounts) costing about half of Gullfoss (I get a quote in my currency).

Oh well, I thought I had survived the sales and managed to make it through without shopping, but thereā€™s a risk/chance I might buy both of these. Thrilled to get rid of that mud :smiley:

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#457

Anyone know of a plugin that does what Maxxbass does? Harmonic exciter that lets you remove low end while psychoacoustically simulating the low end. I use it on mixes destined for iphone/laptop speakers.

I finally upgraded my OS and the plugin stopped working due to 32 bit etc. Before I repurchase the new version I figure I would ask if around in case something better or different has come out.

#458

Havenā€™t looked into this. Just got curious and googled. Could this one do it? Voxengo LF Max Punch BBE Harmonic Maximizer.

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#459

@trickyflemming: Iā€™m wondering, does Bass Mint do that?

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#460

valhalla delay is worth every penny. i still canā€™t believe how good it sounds!

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#461

PSP Mixbass should be able to do the psychoacoustic bit.
BBE Sonic Maximizer does its work by allegedly aligning phases-- not what youā€™re looking for ā€“ but it works phenomenal magic on bass.

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#462

Iā€™ve grown fond of my Arturia Microfreak as a polyphonic Plaits, but it lacks heft and punch without something like the Arturia pre-amp plugins, all wonderful.

#463

Sort of! The ā€œOctaverā€ mode crossfades between the low end and an octave-up harmonic distortion version. I donā€™t have Maxxbass to A/B against. From what I saw in my research, this is one option for psychoacoustics, but itā€™s a lot simpler than a lot of the papers I looked at since I wanted to keep every mode on Bass Mint down to a single STRENGTH knob.

@Gahlord I would recommend downloading a demo so that I donā€™t make an inaccurate claim.

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#464

Can you update MaxBass with Waves WUP program for a year? I think it costs around $20 for a single plugin. Then you can get a 64 bit version of MaxBass that will keep you going until the 128 bit OS hits in 2036, or so.

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#465

I can upgrade Waves, I just wanted to make sure I wasnā€™t missing in case the state of the art changed.

So far all the recommendations look fun and useful but not quite the (admittedly specific!) use case of removing low frequency energy from the mix while psychoacoustically retaining the feeling of bass energy. Terribly useful for situations where you want to keep the sound but donā€™t have speaker oomph in delivery medium.

#466

I have used MaxBass several times for that purpose. Thereā€™s also waves RenBass, which does the same thing with a simplified control panel, but I like the extra tweakable parameters in MaxBass.

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