Doctor Vibe by Sketch Audio (Released)

jwmmakerofmusic

@rygrob said:

@reasOne said:
Dr vibe is sweet. I’ve been testing it and I’ll def be picking it up. I had a 303 and haven’t really put this to that test but i can say the mix slammer is great and can add a loudness with some nice tone.

My only beef is not being able to stop the noise if the vinyl sim is turned on… id like to be able to put on some wow n flutter and wobble… and just have a lil bit of noise. But when i crank the slammer the noise becomes too much

Yeah I honestly may dial back that minimum amount of noise in an update, the Mix Slammer is just too powerful!

Yeah that vinyl noise can be just a tad overwhelming, but eh it is what it is. Love how it feeds into that crunch. 😂

Fruitbat1919

@rygrob said:
Hey everyone, thanks for checking out Doctor Vibe! This community is where it all started for me! Really excited to finally get this one out to people.

We're launching three plug-ins over the next five days so give us a follow on social to stay up to date with the fun! We're @sketchaudio_ on X and Instagram.

If you like Doctor Vibe, please leave a review. Those really help with the long term success of the plug-ins

Have you listed what the other plugins are? I can't look as I'm neither on X or Instagram.

Fruitbat1919

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@rygrob said:

@reasOne said:
Dr vibe is sweet. I’ve been testing it and I’ll def be picking it up. I had a 303 and haven’t really put this to that test but i can say the mix slammer is great and can add a loudness with some nice tone.

My only beef is not being able to stop the noise if the vinyl sim is turned on… id like to be able to put on some wow n flutter and wobble… and just have a lil bit of noise. But when i crank the slammer the noise becomes too much

Yeah I honestly may dial back that minimum amount of noise in an update, the Mix Slammer is just too powerful!

Yeah that vinyl noise can be just a tad overwhelming, but eh it is what it is. Love how it feeds into that crunch. 😂

Yeah works well on that audio you sent me. I looped the end section for a bit to listen to the vinyl noise and while true it's a tad much, it's still quite pleasant to the ear. In the context of the loop you sent, it's about right on my speakers at least. I'm still waiting to see what the other two apps are first, but will probably get this soon and try it on a Tangarine Dream style track I'm working on.

NeuM

Bought this developer's "Blip Box" drum app today and was delighted to find it worked on both iPadOS and macOS flawlessly (including automatically sharing custom presets between both platforms). I'm a fan.

Fear2Stop

@rygrob said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:
Not going to lie - this plugin was definitely worth what I paid for it @rygrob . My client wanted a Vaporwave beat with an RnB twist. He is absolutely pleased with how the track turned out. (I used Doctor Vibe on the drums.) Nearly shat his pants when he heard the final result. I'm glad I took the plunge this morning. Good show. 👏

Thanks for checking it out! Would love to hear the music, too we want to start building up some blog posts featuring music made with our plug-ins.

I definitely could share some stuff as well…. I made a patch in Phase Monkey that I use quite frequently

reasOne

@rygrob said:

@reasOne said:
Dr vibe is sweet. I’ve been testing it and I’ll def be picking it up. I had a 303 and haven’t really put this to that test but i can say the mix slammer is great and can add a loudness with some nice tone.

My only beef is not being able to stop the noise if the vinyl sim is turned on… id like to be able to put on some wow n flutter and wobble… and just have a lil bit of noise. But when i crank the slammer the noise becomes too much

Yeah I honestly may dial back that minimum amount of noise in an update, the Mix Slammer is just too powerful!

Yess! Its a great noise but isn’t for every situation and would love to crank it down or even mute to get to use the awesome other effects on the vinyl sim, because they are awesome on their own. Def want to put those to work!

Icoustik

@rygrob said:

@reasOne said:
Dr vibe is sweet. I’ve been testing it and I’ll def be picking it up. I had a 303 and haven’t really put this to that test but i can say the mix slammer is great and can add a loudness with some nice tone.

My only beef is not being able to stop the noise if the vinyl sim is turned on… id like to be able to put on some wow n flutter and wobble… and just have a lil bit of noise. But when i crank the slammer the noise becomes too much

Yeah I honestly may dial back that minimum amount of noise in an update, the Mix Slammer is just too powerful!

Yes please!

taeo

My SP404 mk2 has a Sp303 fx, but to be honest I have no idea if it sounds anything like an original 303. To be honest I've stopped caring too much about authenticity, as long as something sounds good to my old cloth ears. I tried some blind tests between one of my dream synths (Prophet 10 rev 4) and a Prophet 6: I can tell the difference in some sounds to start with, but after a while and with any other sounds (I.e. in a mix), they begin to just sound the same. I'm sure if you are a professional in a pro enviroment, some push towards getting authentic sounds can be worth while. I'm not even sure my monitor speakers are even that reliable now as they are so old now, like my hearing lol

Myself and many others in the IPBM discord have the mk2 as well, and they’ve A/B’d the 303 vinyl comp against the original hardware, and they are not the same.

Kinda like the 404 vinyl sim in lo-fly dirt is not the same as the hardware.

@Gavinski said:
I wasn’t sure about this at first, maybe I feel a bit lofi-ed out. But I dig the sound. There are a few things that bug me about the UI, overall, I like it though. I have no idea whether it is based on the SP-303, Sketch Audio could comment. @taeo btw, I also just put up a short demo on YT (there’s a review in the pinned comment, which mentions my gripes too), so you could use that to say how similar you think the sound is to the SP-303 and to Vulf Compressor.

Nice! Thanks for that! Yeah, other than some Ui issues, this looks super sweet and right up my alley!

Jeezs

How does it compare to other solutions available on iOS like DAW LP , Needle Point and such?

audiblevideo

@Jeezs Needlepoint has a few more controls that let you manipulate the "dust" and "noise" more that what Doctor Vibe does with just one slider. In addition, the playback section of Needlepoint has a pitch control built in. Random button as well.

Can you get similar sounds with both? Yes. Needlepoint even has "Easy SP Dirty" and "Easy SP" presets. Are they more or less authentic than Doctor Vibe... I couldn't say.

Doctor Vibe, on the other hand, has controls for the ADC/DAC sample rate bit depth etc... Needlepoint doesn't have any ADC/DAC controls. More of a Record emulator than a Sample emulator.

Blipsford_Baubie

Does this look ahead? Would a DAW with plug-in offset compensation be required?

jwmmakerofmusic

@Blipsford_Baubie said:
Does this look ahead? Would a DAW with plug-in offset compensation be required?

No look-ahead in NS2 afaik. So I assume no look-ahead in other DAWs.

Blipsford_Baubie

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:
Does this look ahead? Would a DAW with plug-in offset compensation be required?

No look-ahead in NS2 afaik. So I assume no look-ahead in other DAWs.

But does NS2 have automatic plug-in compensation? I simply want to know if Dr. Vibe adds latency. I should have asked differently, my bad.

jwmmakerofmusic

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:
Does this look ahead? Would a DAW with plug-in offset compensation be required?

No look-ahead in NS2 afaik. So I assume no look-ahead in other DAWs.

But does NS2 have automatic plug-in compensation? I simply want to know if Dr. Vibe adds latency. I should have asked differently, my bad.

Ah. NS2 has no plugin compensation sadly. But if does show how much plugin delay there is. Doctor Vibe doesn't seem to add any latency.

Blipsford_Baubie

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:
Does this look ahead? Would a DAW with plug-in offset compensation be required?

No look-ahead in NS2 afaik. So I assume no look-ahead in other DAWs.

But does NS2 have automatic plug-in compensation? I simply want to know if Dr. Vibe adds latency. I should have asked differently, my bad.

Ah. NS2 has no plugin compensation sadly. But if does show how much plugin delay there is. Doctor Vibe doesn't seem to add any latency.

Cool. May I be a prick and ask how exactly you are checking?

Maybe @rygrob can chime in.
I’m just wondering if Slammer is adding latency since it’s a compressor. I don’t know anything about the compressor that it’s modeled after. I also always wondered whether or not higher resampling rates add latency. I know they’re more CPU intensive, but do they also add more latency?

thesoundtestroom

Here is my video for Dr Vibe

jwmmakerofmusic

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:
Does this look ahead? Would a DAW with plug-in offset compensation be required?

No look-ahead in NS2 afaik. So I assume no look-ahead in other DAWs.

But does NS2 have automatic plug-in compensation? I simply want to know if Dr. Vibe adds latency. I should have asked differently, my bad.

Ah. NS2 has no plugin compensation sadly. But if does show how much plugin delay there is. Doctor Vibe doesn't seem to add any latency.

Cool. May I be a prick and ask how exactly you are checking?

If a plugin has latency, a little red box will show above the plugin's UI in NS2 as you can see above. TB Voice Pitcher (which I only loaded for this example) introduces 42.7ms latency for example. (I'm not sure how to check in other hosts as I usually just use NS2 when I want to use my auv3 plugins for a project).

Blipsford_Baubie

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:
Does this look ahead? Would a DAW with plug-in offset compensation be required?

No look-ahead in NS2 afaik. So I assume no look-ahead in other DAWs.

But does NS2 have automatic plug-in compensation? I simply want to know if Dr. Vibe adds latency. I should have asked differently, my bad.

Ah. NS2 has no plugin compensation sadly. But if does show how much plugin delay there is. Doctor Vibe doesn't seem to add any latency.

Cool. May I be a prick and ask how exactly you are checking?

If a plugin has latency, a little red box will show above the plugin's UI in NS2 as you can see above. TB Voice Pitcher (which I only loaded for this example) introduces 42.7ms latency for example. (I'm not sure how to check in other hosts as I usually just use NS2 when I want to use my auv3 plugins for a project).

Thanks for the details, Jim

rygrob

Hey thanks actually there is a small amount of latency that Doctor Vibe reports, I will need to investigate why that's not being recognized by NS2.

jwmmakerofmusic

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:
Does this look ahead? Would a DAW with plug-in offset compensation be required?

No look-ahead in NS2 afaik. So I assume no look-ahead in other DAWs.

But does NS2 have automatic plug-in compensation? I simply want to know if Dr. Vibe adds latency. I should have asked differently, my bad.

Ah. NS2 has no plugin compensation sadly. But if does show how much plugin delay there is. Doctor Vibe doesn't seem to add any latency.

Cool. May I be a prick and ask how exactly you are checking?

If a plugin has latency, a little red box will show above the plugin's UI in NS2 as you can see above. TB Voice Pitcher (which I only loaded for this example) introduces 42.7ms latency for example. (I'm not sure how to check in other hosts as I usually just use NS2 when I want to use my auv3 plugins for a project).

Thanks for the details, Jim

Absolutely, although according to our friend @rygrob there is a minute amount of latency. Then again I wound up using it in every channel on my latest track, so seems it all lines up again. 😂

Nathi94

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:
Does this look ahead? Would a DAW with plug-in offset compensation be required?

No look-ahead in NS2 afaik. So I assume no look-ahead in other DAWs.

But does NS2 have automatic plug-in compensation? I simply want to know if Dr. Vibe adds latency. I should have asked differently, my bad.

Ah. NS2 has no plugin compensation sadly. But if does show how much plugin delay there is. Doctor Vibe doesn't seem to add any latency.

I could be wrong but I think I’ve read somewhere here and in the manual that NS2 does have plugin delay compensation.

jwmmakerofmusic

@Nathi94 said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:
Does this look ahead? Would a DAW with plug-in offset compensation be required?

No look-ahead in NS2 afaik. So I assume no look-ahead in other DAWs.

But does NS2 have automatic plug-in compensation? I simply want to know if Dr. Vibe adds latency. I should have asked differently, my bad.

Ah. NS2 has no plugin compensation sadly. But if does show how much plugin delay there is. Doctor Vibe doesn't seem to add any latency.

I could be wrong but I think I’ve read somewhere here and in the manual that NS2 does have plugin delay compensation.

Actually you're correct. I honestly hadn't the foggiest, but here it is.

That's that issue solved and I had no idea. 😂

klownshed

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:
Does this look ahead? Would a DAW with plug-in offset compensation be required?

No look-ahead in NS2 afaik. So I assume no look-ahead in other DAWs.

But does NS2 have automatic plug-in compensation? I simply want to know if Dr. Vibe adds latency. I should have asked differently, my bad.

Ah. NS2 has no plugin compensation sadly. But if does show how much plugin delay there is. Doctor Vibe doesn't seem to add any latency.

Cool. May I be a prick and ask how exactly you are checking?

If a plugin has latency, a little red box will show above the plugin's UI in NS2 as you can see above. TB Voice Pitcher (which I only loaded for this example) introduces 42.7ms latency for example. (I'm not sure how to check in other hosts as I usually just use NS2 when I want to use my auv3 plugins for a project).

Thanks for the details, Jim

Absolutely, although according to our friend @rygrob there is a minute amount of latency. Then again I wound up using it in every channel on my latest track, so seems it all lines up again. 😂

I just misread that as a minute of latency. 60 seconds does seem a bit much

klownshed

I am glad my DAW has PDC. No PDC is a deal breaker for me personally.

Being able to quickly disable it with a performance mode for recording is also essential. If I forget to turn on low latency mode when playing you can really feel it.

jwmmakerofmusic

@klownshed said:
@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:
Does this look ahead? Would a DAW with plug-in offset compensation be required?

No look-ahead in NS2 afaik. So I assume no look-ahead in other DAWs.

But does NS2 have automatic plug-in compensation? I simply want to know if Dr. Vibe adds latency. I should have asked differently, my bad.

Ah. NS2 has no plugin compensation sadly. But if does show how much plugin delay there is. Doctor Vibe doesn't seem to add any latency.

Cool. May I be a prick and ask how exactly you are checking?

If a plugin has latency, a little red box will show above the plugin's UI in NS2 as you can see above. TB Voice Pitcher (which I only loaded for this example) introduces 42.7ms latency for example. (I'm not sure how to check in other hosts as I usually just use NS2 when I want to use my auv3 plugins for a project).

Thanks for the details, Jim

Absolutely, although according to our friend @rygrob there is a minute amount of latency. Then again I wound up using it in every channel on my latest track, so seems it all lines up again. 😂

I just misread that as a minute of latency. 60 seconds does seem a bit much

Lol. 😂 I do mean just a tiny bit of latency.

Nathi94

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Nathi94 said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:

@jwmmakerofmusic said:

@Blipsford_Baubie said:
Does this look ahead? Would a DAW with plug-in offset compensation be required?

No look-ahead in NS2 afaik. So I assume no look-ahead in other DAWs.

But does NS2 have automatic plug-in compensation? I simply want to know if Dr. Vibe adds latency. I should have asked differently, my bad.

Ah. NS2 has no plugin compensation sadly. But if does show how much plugin delay there is. Doctor Vibe doesn't seem to add any latency.

I could be wrong but I think I’ve read somewhere here and in the manual that NS2 does have plugin delay compensation.

Actually you're correct. I honestly hadn't the foggiest, but here it is.

That's that issue solved and I had no idea. 😂

Nice

Etienne

@rygrob
Great plugin, and universal purchase
I put it on my master, tweaked some parameters and started jamming instantly.

Tentype

Hi @rygrob

I love Doctor Vibe. It's one stop shopping for the glue and feel of a track.

I'm wondering if there's a way to add an option to follow the hosts transport? As it stands Doctor Vibe outputs constant noise if the vinyl simulation is on which is distracting when nothing else is playing and I'm just auditioning other synth sounds etc.

I bypass it sometimes but often I'll end up leaving it off which isn't ideal while using it as a bus compressor. Some kind of an option to auto bypass when the host isn't playing would be amazing. Please consider.

Again, FANTASTIC PLUGIN.

Slush

@Tentype said:
Hi @rygrob

I love Doctor Vibe. It's one stop shopping for the glue and feel of a track.

I'm wondering if there's a way to add an option to follow the hosts transport? As it stands Doctor Vibe outputs constant noise if the vinyl simulation is on which is distracting when nothing else is playing and I'm just auditioning other synth sounds etc.

I bypass it sometimes but often I'll end up leaving it off which isn't ideal while using it as a bus compressor. Some kind of an option to auto bypass when the host isn't playing would be amazing. Please consider.

Again, FANTASTIC PLUGIN.

Indeed, when doing a mixdown in Cubasis and Doctor Vibe is in the chain is adds a long static noise after the track ends. Have to reslice it to cut it of. But agreed, excellent app when using subtle to give that extra bit.

Tentype

@rygrob and @Slush

Another option might be to add a gate at the end of the signal chain with an audio threshold and attack and release. Then we can set soft fade ins and outs.

Now that i think of it that would probably cover all the use cases better.