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Re: ADSR real time plug in?



Yes, I agree. All their plugins are excellent. I don't own them yet but I'm going to buy the whole effects collection while I can still take advantage of their very generous (50%) student discount.

I've really enjoyed trialing Saturn too. It's a useful saturation plugin but the best use I've found for it so far is for creating stereo effects. You can individually pan any of the frequency bands you create AND you can separately pan the distortion/saturation within each band. It creates some really huge sounds, I love it on my guitar. Heck, with all the modulation options it has you could probably get an ADSR effect with this or maybe Volcano. I know they have envelope generators.

Back in the analog world the Boss SG-1 Slow Gear (long since discontinued) did the auto-swell thing. Maybe someone has made a software clone of that. I know 'build your own clone' sell the parts needed for a stompbox clone.


Philip.

--On 05 April 2012 10:52 +0200 Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Philip Conway
<Philip.Conway@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
I suspect that the Fabfilter Pro-G gate plugin could do this, although I
haven't tried it for this purpose.  It's pretty sophisticated.  Their
plugins have a one month fully functional trial period, so they're worth
checking out.


I don't own the Pro-G either, but that's an exciting idea, Philip. I
totally agree on the excellence of the Fabfilter stuff. Every day I
use their Pro-L and Pro-Q, especially for mastering but also inserted
within a track. I don't use the most advanced features because I don't
master much of other peoples music and in my own productions I prefer
fixing issues directly at the source track rather than dialing in with
audio surgery on the stereo master. But I've read the manual and
watched all YouTube tutorials Fabfilter has posted, just to be sure I
know the advanced stuff in case a situation should come up. One cool
thing with those advanced plugins is that they can be set to work at
non latency mode (i.e. within the host's plugin latency margins) and
if you do a mixdown you can set them all the way to 4x oversampling
(which causes long latency for live work). Especially the limiter
sometimes works well to play bass guitar through, it makes so much for
the feel of the instrument sound so you really have to record through
it and play on the sound.

TAlking about Fabfilter, I'm a happy long time user of their Volcano
(filterbank thingy) and Timeless (sort of tape delay simulation). Also
picked up Saturn recently and finding it useful both in mastering (so
far only found it useful as a 2 band multi compressor when mastering.
But some masters sound better without so it's a kind of "extra
utility" rather than a basic tool) and when your looking for a weird
sound for something.

Sorry, for the long post. Just got inspired when reading someone
mentioning one of my fav plugin developers.

Per