TL;DW: New best smoothest distortion algorithm. Spiral What if… the building-block sine-based saturation routine I build so many things on, which I thought was the smoothest distortion you could have, is NOT the ideal distortion? I was watching a youtube video by Brady Haran, on his ‘Numberphile’ channel. It was about the golden ratio, and […]
TL;DW: The magic saturation plugin of subtlety and French House tone. PurestDrive The funny thing about PurestDrive is that I didn’t expect much from it at all. This plugin (now coming to VST and open source) was simply an experiment. I’d been making complicated plugins with things like anti-aliasing, just a lot of calculation going […]
TL;DW: Dirty loud! NC-17 This one needs little introduction, but it’s been a Mac-only secret so I will introduce it anyhow :) NC-17 was designed as the loudenator-killer. It uses the same technology as ADClip’s energy redistribution stuff, but on a soft-clipper, and instead of just feeding the energy back in, it uses it to […]
TL;DW: Distinctive analog coloration. Desk4 Though I’ve put out BussColors to mimic existing audio hardware, it was always my intention to create analog-ifying plugins that weren’t about cloning existing gear: that produced their own distinctive sound. The first Desk plugins (Desk, TransDesk, TubeDesk) were made in this way, using audio DSP which isn’t typical. As […]
