Synth sounds going into delay pedals
Calvin Cardioid shows off his Boss DD-3, Moog MF104SD, Eowave Spacebug, OTO Biscuit and more.
“Six Delays in September… I’m just playing common synth patches in mono with one hand, while the other tweaks the pedals.”
REVIEW: Filter Research 2 from Nucleus Soundlab
Nucleus Soundlab is in my mind a solid provider of highly crafted refills for the Propellerhead Reason suite. With refills like Pantheon I and II and Synthetic Kits in their portfolio, as well as with my experience with their predecessor Filter Research I, I was pretty intrigued to see how it had evolved.
To start of I would like to remind you that FR 1 and 2 are not by any means your traditional refill with predefined loops, pads, keys, bass and lead sounds – it is actually quite empty of any sounds, instead you are provided with the tools to uniquely tailor your sounds with effects hardly imaginable for the “standard” Reason user. Basically what Nucleus are doing is that they are cramming every inch out of the Reason rack to give you an amazing toolbox of high quality sequenced effects with inbuilt patterns.
Something that triggered me the most and is probably one of the main reasons I would strongly recommend this refill is the way Nucleus has been able to add delays that are far richer than what most skilled Reason users what be able to produce themselves as well as the envelope-followed distortion, and spectral processors.
In my work I have come across a number of excellent VSTs focused on adding that specific touch to your music, let it be reverbs, filters, delays, distortion devices etc, and pretty much optimized towards that one objective. With FR 2 you will definitely get a short cut to adding that extra dimension to your music and with the added MIDI support you are free to experiment. I can say that FR 2 is a strength indicator of Nucleus, but equally well an indicator of Reason as a key software in your music production. I am really looking forward to see what Nucleus will come up with for Reason 5.
Details:
Filter Research 2 features
- 200+ Combinators included.
- PDF manual describing each Combinator.
- New more detailed manual format.
- 5 Epic Combinators – including video documentation.
- All Combinators created from scratch.
- Each Combinator has all 4 rotaries/buttons uniquely assigned.
- Requires Reason 4+ either standalone or together with Record.
Filter Research 2 is available to purchase as a download for $59 USD. For 30 days, Nucleus SoundLab customers and newsletter subscribers can purchase for only $49 USD.
More information: Nucleus SoundLab / Filter Research 2
BoomComb, a MIDI tuneable comb filter
Boomplug has released BoomComb, a MIDI tuneable comb filter perfect for creating similar effects to a flanger or for spicing up synthetic drums.
Now you may ask what is a comb filter? Well a comb filter a delay based effect where it feedsback a delayed version of itself. Because of this it can create an effect similar to a flanger and can also give resonation type effects. The delay time of the comb is specified in Hz rather than time this allows the delay time can also be set via MIDI input from the key pressed and the pitch can also be bent using the pitch wheel, this allows the effect to be played like an instrument.
In the feedback loop of the effect is a damping filter which allows you to soften the sound of the comb. There is also Saturation in the feedback loop which can also be overdriven to really dirty up the sound. You can also control how much of signal is feedback and with more feedback the effect will resonate more.
Finally the the input to the comb can mixed mixed with the output of the comb and is set by the dry/wet knob.
Boomplug BoomComb V1
BoomComb features
- Tuneable Comb Filter controlled via MIDI or knob.
- Damping Filter in Feedback to reduce the harmonics or resonation.
- Saturation in feedback loop for really dirtying a sound or to be used subtly to add character.
- Custom GUI designed by Leonard “paniq” Ritter.
- Uses custom GUI Framework using the latest Windows Drawing API.
BoomComb is available to download as a freeware VST effect plug-in for Windows. It comes in two versions:
- GUI version of BoomComb for Win Vista SP2, Win 7 and above.
- Non GUI version for Windows XP.
More information: Boomplug
Nice multi-effect for creating Ambient textures
Audiobulb Records / Christopher Hipgrave unveils Ambient, a multi-effect standalone software module for creating Ambient textures. Sounds very cool!
Features:
- + Granular sampler with random pitch function
- + Amplitude envelope with a trigger speed control
- + Three pitch shift controls for adding extra layers
- + Tape delay
- + Multi-mode filter
- + Ambient reverb
Price: £9.99 GBP
“A unique ambient soundscape generator. AMBIENT is capable of producing a vast array of ambient textures, from the bizarre to the beautiful. AMBIENT processes any sound you care to load into it. The possibilities are endless.” A U D I O B U L B . R E C O R D S
What about DELAY in music
The History of Delay
Phil Taylor over at Effectrode the builders of some of the finest tube based pedals in the world wrote a fine article on the history of delay. Dating back to the telegraph days delay/echo has take a long time to perfect electronically and is still being perfected and worked on. A quick read but very interesting and makes you relish when you stomp on your favorite delay pedal !
Go here to read the full story >>
Nice delay for download
Myosis has released Phrase-Delay, a multi mode delay effect plug-in for Windows.
Phrase-delay is an all in one delay plugin, a Swiss Army Knife, easy to use . It doesn’t sound like any other delay plug-in. It can turn a one shot note into a fascinating loop. From traditional delay to generative music, Phrase-delay do the job with ease!
Phrase-Delay features
- 16 delay channels with independant level, panning, modulation and resonant filter.
- One pre-looper delay for phrasing, up to 10.920 seconds. .
- Two independant feedbacks knob.
- Damping.
- One 4 pole Low pass pre-filter with LFO modulation.
- Manual or Host tempo sync.
- Bouncing-ball mode.
- 16 resonant filters ( 2 pole or 4 pole) for each delay bank with adjustable cutoff freq according to note names for quick edit.
- LFO modulation amount for each delay.
- Tone filter.
- Presets covering all functions and many configurations.
- Manual is also included.
Phrase-Delay is available as a VST effect plug-in for Windows PC for 49 EUR. A demo version is available for download here.
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