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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