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Help me find an effect plugin
Howdy 🙋🏼♂️
I‘m looking for an AU that I can use as a „signature“ effect to give my sounds an individual feel. Disclaimer: I have hardly any clue about effects in general. Thus I only own the free ones and Turnado.
To be a bit more precise: I love glitch effects like 65daysofstatic uses and lo-fi stuff, e.g. vinyl crackles. But it would be cool if the effect would be a bit more „general purpose“.
More of what I‘m looking for:
- Must be AUv3
- Should be universal
- Should be low CPU
- Not too complicated to use
- A visually pleasing interface would nice
I hope you friendly people can help me find a way through the effects-jungle of the App Store.
Thx
Comments
Signature effect?
Try a lot of effects and configurations return/send.
IMHO, anything like "signature" must be "signature" not PlugAndPlay.
While some use AUM for composition, to me it's a very handy modular FX unit (as is apeMatrix!)
Doesn't "Signature" mean individual?
Combining a multitude of effects is the best way to create individual FX that you cannot buy in the App Store.
On the other hand, Turnado is such a deep app that it's rather easy to create something unique in it. Prepare for some practice in UI zooming though 😅
Effectrix is a bit easier to handle and while not as deep, very powerful too.
And believe me, investing your precious time into one app is better than scratching the surface of ten different apps.
I would like to take only one Multi fx App (just to focalise on this only as you suggested), maybe on sale like the Sugar Bytes ones: cannot decide between Effectrix and Turnado.
Maybe the sequencer structure of Effectrix could be more useful for a BM3 use?
And Turnado for the other DAWs?
I don't know if I have caught the point...please let me know your suggestion, bearing in mind that I have just started using BM3 and I find that I love it a lot, very handy for me, more I think that Cubasis and NS2.
Thanks and best
I don’t know if picking an effect and then applying it to everything, just to have a “signature,” is a good idea.
Your personal sound isn’t something you set out to create, consciously. It arises from your body of work, over time. You don’t have to think about it. It just happens.
Much better to pick effects/harmonies/synth sounds etc based 0n what you think the song needs. The choices you make there are your “signature.”
+1 especially combining various effects to
find the chain of effects that pleases your ear.
I have both and my personal opinion is:
Turnado is the powerhouse (on paper) but using Effectrix is so much more fun. And the FX on offer are quite tasty IMHO and great for rhythmic modulations.
It's not as fine-tunable as Turnado but good enough for me.
PS: Doesn't matter which DAW you use. The grid is for rhythmic effect placement.
Got it! Thanks so much: I already was a little bit oriented towards Effectrix, but your opinion convinced me.
Best Holidays
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You’re probably right, I should stick to Turnado for the time being and not waste more money 😔
The problem I have with Turnado is that I have a hard time applying anything subtly. When I turn a knob just a tiny bit the effects gets applied by a huge amount. Lots of presets don’t have that problem, but as soon as I switch one effect out that inconsistent turning is back.
The edit page is so overwhelming to me, but maybe you know what settings I could change. 😬
Effectrix, MangledVerb and the Toneboosters tape emulation one that I can't remember the name of right now spring to mind.
Let’s not waste a perfectly useful thread... what are the good apps for Glitching and lo-fi mangling.
My guesses would be Perforator and FAC Bandit to really sound distinct. But I ask for more input because of my ignorance with current techniques.
Haven’t read everything because of time
But I would suggest to look into replicant 2 from audiodamage. I really like it and it’s random features
Electrogene
Perforator is a really good gate effect but on it's own it isn't enough for glitching etc.
Combine it with Shaper and gliderverb and you're laughing.
Why gliderverb?
At very short times and set to pitch, it produces quite
musical tones especially for drums or rhythmic patterns.
Shaper is one crazy plugin.
There are no half way measures with it.
It's all or nothing.
I need some serious concentration time for that one.
One of the things I used to do a lot of on my laptop,
before it got nicked last year, was creating effects chains.
AUM is brilliant for that and I suppose
AB3 and Apematrix are most probably equally so.
It all depends upon what you're hearing inside your head sound design wise.
Ah whilst I was typing, this occurred to me.
Blamsoft Resampler + or you could use Jen Guells Decimator which also has a filter
Blamsoft Zeroverb (I set my reverb time to an approximate four bar length) +
Perforator on the end
Automate some of the cc# values and see what happens.
The smaller the beats, say 1/64th to 1/128 will seriously get glitches happening.
The best lesson for glitching I have seen is from @bedheadproducer when he carved up some audio in Cubasis with lots of alternating sounds clips and silence clips with a very fine resolution.
Electrogene is new to me and the app store describes it as a "low fidelity audio effect combining bit-crusher, modulation, saturation and filter".
Replicant 2 is described as "a randomized looper/buffer reverse, with a randomized stutter effect inside the loop. Stuttering buffers and filter drops are easy to program, and the comprehensive randomization features give it a mind of its own."
Thanks for the suggestions. After reading them and researching a bit on the web here is what I gathered:
Please correct me if I‘m wrong.
For my current project I want to give my instruments an analogish lofi feel. The effect of choice would probably be DAW LP, but right now that’s more than I‘m willing to spend for such a specialized tool.
Maybe someone can explain if and how I could achieve that lofi feel with Turnado and NS2s built in effects?
So far the lofi effect of NS2 ended up sounding to digital for my taste and I can’t get Turnados vinylizer to give a subtle, realistic effect.
Don't know if this can work, but maybe try adding an audio track of record dust and then mix that in to taste in the mixing stage? Here is a nice one from the Luftrum field recordings, attached
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/audioeffx/id1173816162
Set common dry/wet to 50%
Hit random (dice) until you like what you hear
Adjust
Save
I would add some shaper in the mix as well. Easy to use and creates lots of possibilities.
+1 on replicant 2. It’s absolutely brilliant.
Search developers: Audio damage, Eventide, Toneboosters, Fabfilter, Fac Fred Corvest.
FD-1 and TB ReelBus are getting a lot of use lately, in addition to the latest Sugar Bytes AU (Effectrix).
For what you describe, however, I recommend checking out Electrogene. (Being different has its own rewards?)
Replicant2
Shaper
Grind
FuzzPlus3
SF-1
Discord4
Turnado
Effectrix
DubFilter
Apefilter
Moebius Lab
Wow
JAX Decimator
Electrogene
Squashit
Glitch1
Nils
Filtatron
Kuvert
Frekvens
Caramel
WretchUp
Nebulizer
Frobulator
Muckraker
And Effectrix.
3x yes, plus the new Midiculous iFX rack maybe?
No, it's just one of the many different good choruses available.
Each has its own sound character and none I've tested so far sounds like the chorus of a Roland Juno-6(0).
Plus TB Reverb. Probably even more flexible than Blackhole.
That's one option. A more classic approach with more control is TB Barricade.
Not necessarily. I just personally prefer effects that can do more in one box instead of having a long AUv3 list with each little effect being a separate purchase.
Because they're great developers!
"Analog" is a common buzzword used for side effects that most would have strived to avoid 40 years ago. When digital recording techniques had revolutionized album recordings in the early 80s, everybody raved about the much better, clearer, less noisy sound.
Filter > Lowpass > reduce treble content smoothly
Add more filters to add "warmth" (low-mid EQ boost), bass roll-off, uneven frequency response
Guitar Amp with Low = Normal
Maybe the vowel filter and the phaser (in tiny doses mixed to the original signal)
Spectralizer > Carefully play with un-modulated settings to add some spectral dirt
Use the Dictator to create cross-fades between and combinations of different settings!
The trick is to use multiple FX with only very, very subtle amounts.
The Turnado Vinylizer would better be labelled "Scratcher" because that's what it is.
NS2 LoFi: That's no wonder because it's made to achieve digital Lo-Fi, not analog Lo-Fi.
Better try Waveshaper followed by EQ-3B (to reduce treble and boost low-mids and high-mids a little bit). Waveshaper is a fantastic analog LoFi device if you take the time to find the sweet spot.
Finally add @bato's vinyl crackling and noise to taste 😃
Holy hell 😵 That sounds mighty helpful. Thanks a lot @rs2000 . Will try tomorrow.
I have to keep my tired, cranky self from senselessly spending money on stuff I don’t really need. But just in case I can’t contain myself 😅: What would be your desert island effect? That multi purpose FX you put on almost everything, if such a thing exists?
Also, can I add the crackling from @bato to NS2 via Enso? Or is there a better way?
Glad you find it useful! You're welcome.
Ooh, difficult question. The only effect I put on almost everything is an equalizer.
NS2's included EQ does the job very well, al last it's perfectly automatable.
On top of that, NS2 already has a desert island FX collection included.
Just drag it to a Slate pad and trigger it whenever you feel like it. Add a filter if the crackling sounds too bright. Do fade-ins and fade-outs using its ADSR envelope.
I'd like to cite @jakoB_haQ to salvage you from appholism:
Go finger your stuff! 🤗 👍🏼
But @jakoB_haQ also always tells me how great all the apps are, especially Discord4 😋
Found a few minutes to try a few things. Waveshaper + 3B seems to work good, need to learn more about EQing though. Total noob on that end.
I find that Reamp by Klevgränd adds a very nice flavour to the sound. Adding a very special warm analogue saturation.