TripleSpread
TL;DW: TripleSpread is a stereo tripler with extra wideness and GlitchShifter processing.
Here’s a fun little toy that might make it into the toolkits of some otherwise non-Airwindows types :)
TripleSpread is based off the code of GlitchShifter, but it’s designed around one task, and that is the ‘split a track into three, pan one hard left and pitch it down a few cents, pan another hard right and pitch it up a few cents’. That’s what it does. It’s a tripler. Alternately, if you put it on a LR pair of instruments, it’ll double each of those instruments and stay very stereo. Or if you put it on an LCR submix, it can sound like about twelve instruments. That’s the specialty of TripleSpread: making a big wide stereo effect.
Except that it adds a new twist: as you bring up dry/wet, introducing the effect and progressively overpowering ‘dry’ (where the mono signal might be) it also fades out the mid content of the added stereo stuff. So you get a hyper-wide. Specifically, you get a hyper-wide that seamlessly fades between your clean, direct sound (however many sources you have in it) and the expanded, widened sound (adding pitch-shifted elements that are wider than the stereo field). These can be subtly pitch shifted, or nearly a semitone out if you crank it.
And if that’s not enough, it’s still Glitch Shifter based, so you can increase the tightness control until it glitches out or reverts to dry… or you can turn it way down, until the pitch shifted tripled voices hardly relate to the original sound at all. That might be cool for ambient pads, wide stereo synthetic things or what have you: it’ll add an unpredictable echoey effect that’s also pitch shifted. Tighten it up, and you control that vagueness as much as you like. Tighten it more, and you can tie it to whatever rhythmic element you like: it’s certainly capable of widening LCR guitars while keeping the ‘guitar orchestra’ effect relatively tight, or you can get silly and try it on percussive sounds as long as you’re OK with it either glitching, or blurring the timing.
All this is supported by Patreon, as always. So if you’d go and buy this at $50 for a perpetual license to be used on as many computers as you like plus you get the source code (I know, I’m so STRICT, what a meanie I am) then by all means go and add $50 to your Patreon pledge. Or, if you had one going, and this justifies keeping it going for another year, woohoo!
This is a fun one. Hope you like it. :)
Nice one Chris!
Thanks for this amazing thing… the looseness is gold for a more organic doubling!!! not to mension the action packed flange this thing can do!!
I’d just like to say, I really love this plugin! I just used it on a project, and I liked what it did a lot more than most chorus/doubler effects. My one issue is that it seems to cause a massive amount of crackling noises, that don’t seem to be an intended part of the effect. Has anyone else run into this?
I’m running the Audio Unit, in Logic 10.5.1(latest version), on a 2014 MacBook Pro running OS X Catalina 10.15.7 (also latest version, but had the same issue on 10.15.6), and this issue is occurring with the effect placed directly as an insert on a vocal track.
***I’d like to make it very clear that this isn’t a complaint – I’m EXTREMELY grateful for all of your hard work, Chris, and for everything that you bring to the audio community, both here, and on Gearslutz!
Chris you are my hero… I’ve been looking for a doubler that sounds like this for years!
Hey Chris, getting a ton of crackling/noises when the Spread and Tightness controls are turned up. I tried setting my buffer higher, but still causing those noises. Any idea what that might be?
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