Facet
TL;DW: Facet is a new kind of hard clip that adds two sharp corners into the wave.
Post or die! No food until post! Post is life! I’m super exhausted today, so I hope this makes sense. If not, ask on the Monday livestream.
Facet came out of me trying to come up with a new and distinct kind of distortion for the combined-distortions plugin I’m going to do. Rather than just bring Drive, Density, Spiral, Mojo etc. together, I wanted to add something different.
So, Facet adds a ‘clip point’ but rather than a hard clip it just changes the ‘knee’ of the transfer function so your peaks can still go super high, way beyond 0 dB if you like.
But, they change ‘angle’ at a sharp point which becomes sort of a corner in the sound. Except for high settings it’s both high up in the loudness, and a very gentle ‘corner’: still sharp, but very little change.
And down near zero, it’s damn near total hard clipping. At silence, it literally is a hard clip to silence.
Aw hell. Play with it, see what you think. i can’t explain this one well, at least not right now. The mad scientist labs have released another weird one. It will act like it’s a hard clip or a semi-dirty saturation, except the range of adjustment acts different, and it’ll throw an odd artifact on pure low-frequency tones… just play with it, see what you get. It will find its way into the combined plugin because it’s got a flavor all its own, but I can’t describe it today.
I’ve survived this long on Patreon and most likely will still do so even if I don’t beat myself into the ground making new posts and plugins, but part of it is because I’ve had the opportunity to up my game quite a bit, and it’s meant weeks of nonstop work on stuff that isn’t plugins. I’m sure it’ll get easier in time :)
Hi chris!
Please add mojo and dyno to the “dynamics” or “compression” bundle. Please add onecornerclip, and purest gain to “clippers”. For “distortions” bundle go ahead and add crystal and hardvacuumtube.
Thanks for your existence!
Thanks Chris !
And please don’t exhaust yourself….Don’t feel obligated to release something new all the time.
Patreon doesn’t mean you became our (the patreon crowd) obligated servant , we’re not back at Renaissance times…The idea – at least mine – is to give you freedom to create at your own pace by alliviating (to the most of our possibilities, and we are the many) materialistic concerns on your side through our participation.
You do what you can when you can. There is no other dev, nor human being like you, a bit of pure air in this rotten world, so please take it easy !
This is quickly becoming a favorite. Loving the subtle saturation of Facet in the middle area. And smooth automation drives it…great work Chris.