October 24, 2004

Two successful delaydots.com bundles: Sound designers pack and Spectral pack, now united to the single one.
The Sound designers | Spectral Suite is composed of five unique DSP plug-ins line that bring innovative sound FX
processing to you. All plug-ins are available using in VST PC format, VST OSX coming soon.

The Suite includes:
- Spectral Morpher the unique plug-in that works in the frequency domain and gives you possibility to completely
alter the source stream according to another, loaded sample or side chan stream with different transformation modes.
There 11 processing modes available: Convolution (cross synth), Magnitude only convolution, spectral Vocoder effect,
Blend and 7 mutation modes.

- Phat - is a bass exciter (based on subharmonic synth), used to excite and mix low frequency harmonic content.

- Phat Pro an enhanced version of the Phat plug-in. Adds even more flexible controls on low frequency content. Features
6th order elliptic low pass filters, three bass processing algorithms, hard limiter and post effect waveshaper.
Ideal for Dolby Digital / DTS low frequency (LFE) channel control.

- PitchShift multiband - spectral pitch shifter that preserves the incoming signal's duration, and has adjustable pitch
for each individual band.

- daBomb - distortion device with two modes features physically modeled tube screamer simulating four different input circuits.

Changes:
- All plugins: added presets, optimizations and minor fixes, DirectX version discontinued.
- Spectral Morpher - stabilized and reworked UI, added AIFF loader (16, 24 and 32 bit), 32 bit WAV support, more presets,
minor fixes and optimizations. Featuring presets by Martin Walker, Sound on Sound Magazine and exclusive samples and presets
by Darrell Burden, Spirit Canyon Audio (http://www.spiritcanyonaudio.com).
- Phat Pro now available as VST version, added new low frequency synth algorithm, added special feature that help you select
proper filter frequency values.
- daBomb, reworked UI, added two more tube screamer algorithms.
- PitchShift multiband - reworked and fixed UI issues.
- Phat - mix latency issue fixed, retouched UI.

A VST PC demo version is available for download, VST OSX version coming soon.

System requirements : Windows 9x/XP, minimum 800 Mhz machine (800 Mhz or highly recommended), 128Mb RAM.

The Suite is offered at a price of $75 on-line ordering only, Sound designers and Spectral packs owners get free upgrade.

For more information, visit our web site at www.delaydots.com.

---- to add from me ----

Once again, i working on OSX version now
Special thanks to Darren for presets, samples and help with manuals.
About update, email me directly contact@delaydots.com
you will recieve link soon anyway.

i just got the pack and i must say i label it "essential". good work aleksey.

waka x / makunouchi bento

i'm having real troubles with this.. can someone please explain?

why the hell doesn't someone make a straight-up, plain old, regular everyday formant shifter? there are like a dozen spectral plug makers out there, but how much is the cheapest formant shifter?

i don't have a clue, all i know is there isn't one under several hundred dollars, at least that isn't part of reaktor et c.

ffs i can even make a crappy one in synthedit.. everyone can make a spectral shifter but no one is capable of putting a simple, straightforward, practical semitone-scale control on it????

is it going to take another two years of posting to get one of you commercial plug makers to actually notice? are there mibs from the supposedly defunct ensoniq treatening anyone who starts to develop? COME ON!!!!!!! GET A GRIP!!!!!

i wouldn't be so pissy but it's two years, same question, emails to devs, not a fricking answer yet.

Is this the sort of thing you mean?

http://www.arboretum.com/support/manuals/manual_hmmp/Files/hppc_proc_m isc.html#formant_pitch_shifter

So, doesn't the delaydots Pitch shift cover that?

Looking at the picture:

A funny thing to report, Rurik. I just googled for "formant shifter" + vst, and you appeared in 7 of the 12 hits. So, 2 years of searching you say?

it took me 7 clicks on that fucking arboretum page ot find the fucking price. seven fucking clicks! goddamn it, people!!!!

$350, fuck that i say good luck to you!

steve - w/o trying the demo, it seems very apparent that the delaydots product shifts the pitch.. the 2nd "pitch" slider says "-17," and is hardly towards the extreme, so i'm guessing it's -17 cents, not a seperate control for the formant.

i don't want to shift the pitch, i want to shift the formant. in semitones. like the old hardware units used to.

even if every dev out there is completely braindead, you could do a 'clumsy' v. that ffts the signal from a pitch-shifted duplicate.

you could use the technique i've been babbling about forever i use in se.. simply stretching each wavecycle within it's cycle length (unfortunately, w/o 'block processing' in se, my method has to put each wavecycle in the antecedent frame, which introduces lots of distortion when the pitch of the incoming signal changes.) that's smoky joe.. fixing that frame issue would probably still introduce some distortion (frequency smoothing @ frame-end) but would be world's closer.

there you go.. two methods, probably the ~ dozenth time i've detailed them on THIS board alone. i've probably emailed delaydots in the past.. at least once.

two years (at least) of tellnig people about these two methods. yes, i've conducted that search many times. i'm almost ready to fly to bath and kill everyone.

xoxos wrote:

why the hell doesn't someone make a straight-up, plain old, regular everyday formant shifter? there are like a dozen spectral plug makers out there, but how much is the cheapest formant shifter?

http://www.kvr-vst.com/get/574.html Hematohm is basically a formant shifter isn't it?
Well at least it's a frequency shifter and not a pitch shifter, so must be close to what you are looking for

Thanks for the update Aktion! I still use Spectral Morpher alot

Ummm ... back to the Spectral Suite .... it rocks! I even threw a few little presets in there with samples from Kaleidoskopy. Anyway a really cool piece of kit, definitely worth downloading the demo and giving it a run-through.

scam_artist wrote:

xoxos wrote: why the hell doesn't someone make a straight-up, plain old, regular everyday formant shifter? there are like a dozen spectral plug makers out there, but how much is the cheapest formant shifter? http://www.kvr-vst.com/get/574.html Hematohm is basically a formant shifter isn't it? Well at least it's a frequency shifter and not a pitch shifter, so must be close to what you are looking for

Nope. Completely different things.

I'm also waiting for a formant shifter. Man - even Logic7 has one! When will one come to the world of VST?

Forever,




Kim.

Well, i do some research to improve shifter - i have read alot of papers with methods how to improve proper transient shifts, Unfortunetely, im really out of time.

I tryed supplied Kaleidoskopy samples with other presets - very unpredictable results but i like it!
Once again, ppl use my plugins in a even more different way then i am - so its really unlimited way of spectral mangling

Thanks for warm word guy. I appreciate it.

Cheers, Alex

sorry to do my crap in your thread delaydots.. :p g/l

What about hacking the Richard Dobson plugs? Without really looking into it, I think they do pitch shifting with formant preservation. Maybe a dsp coder could rework it a little bit. Source code and I think an explanation are included.

never thought about the source.. that's my next project. oc since i've only written ~3 c++ programs (mainly to do fancy things like print out lsits of numbers) it's going to take a bit of doing. ta for nudge.

The algorithm is very same as PitchShift you can compare yourself.

Mr. Dobson promosed CDP released as VST plugin year ago - that would be real competitor for SpectrumWorx.
CDP contributed 2 effect for SpectrumWorx - i very proud of this.

Aktion wrote:

The algorithm is very same as PitchShift you can compare yourself. Mr. Dobson promosed CDP released as VST plugin year ago - that would be real competitor for SpectrumWorx. CDP contributed 2 effect for SpectrumWorx - i very proud of this.

I think the last announcement was that it would be released about now - Im not holding my breath though