KVR Audio

cytospur · Post by **cytospur** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 9:31 pm

My first ever release of a VST effect. Made in Synthmaker v2.0, so, sorry, no Mac version. Most of the modules are my own (rather simple) code rather than stock modules. I've been using it a lot and thought I should give something back to a community that's given me a lot over the years. You can download it from here:

http://www.box.net/shared/zdgyouov21

The first knob is called offset and this adds DC offset to the input signal (the mod LED below changes the direction of offset). The next knob is labelled fold and adds some fold back distortion. The next knobs are sat (saturation), feed (feedback - the mod LED changes the signal slightly), delay (for the feedback), HPF (high pass filter), H-REZ (high pass resonance), LPF (low pass filter), clip (hard distortion), followed by a dry/wet control and finally gain (for output). The feedback path actually goes after the clip module and re-enters before the fold back distortion stage, so maybe a future update will change the knob order to reflect this (it's like it is for chronological reasons). Beware that on settings where all settings are high that you will get proper high squealing feedback. I've kept that as a feature and the tone can be changed with the delay knob when it appears.

Anyway, I hope someone else finds a use for it. I've used it as an effect for specific instruments, but also on the master channel (mostly using the saturation, HPF and LPF modules). Finally, this has only been tested (successfully) in Orion.

Feedback welcome!

Cheers,

Mark

RunBeerRun · Post by **RunBeerRun** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 9:49 pm

Cool, I'll check it out. I like to make distortions in Synthmaker, too, using weird math equations and float variables, without any knowledge of why. Usually works.

cytospur · Post by **cytospur** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 10:10 pm

I understand the maths behind it, but it is good fun to mess around and see how far you can change the maths. Can't go wrong with wave-shaping really though, but let's see

I've tried to make it so that it can be used for a wide variety of things from subtle to not so. Anyway, thanks for taking a look.

RunBeerRun · Post by **RunBeerRun** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:30 am

Pretty cool, pretty weird. I like the colors/knobs. The preset manager could use some custom coloring.

cytospur · Post by **cytospur** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:49 am

RunBeerRun wrote:Pretty cool, pretty weird. I like the colors/knobs. The preset manager could use some custom coloring.

Thanks, cool and weird sound like my kind of descriptors

The knobs are from an osm file I got at the SM website. I need to fish out the name, so that I can give a proper acknowledgement. I think it was the Vector Knob maker by pall that I adapted to my own purposes. I also used Andrew J's oversampling toolkit to help reduce aliasing. Work's a charm, I used the 2x oversampling polyphase IIR module.

Yes, I did want to spend some time on the preset manager (including presets) to make it fit in better, I just haven't had that time. I'm off on holiday tomorrow for ten days, so I'll work on that when I get back.

Thanks again!

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 11:56 am

wheres the fuckin screen shot ?

v1o · Post by **v1o** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 12:52 pm

Kriminal wrote:wheres the fuckin screen shot ?

what he said

Holophonic · Post by **Holophonic** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:46 pm

Thanks for the plugin man !

cytospur · Post by **cytospur** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 8:07 pm

Kriminal wrote:wheres the fuckin screen shot ?

Sorry. Here it is:

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 9:13 am

looks good

cytospur · Post by **cytospur** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 12:06 pm

Thanks! Sounds good too

Tp3 · Post by **Tp3** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 3:53 am

As it is, Norton Security deletes the files, based on its "reputation"

cytospur · Post by **cytospur** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:07 pm

Files? There's only one. Where did you download from? What does Norton mean by 'reputation'? The DLL is exported directly from Synthmaker, so I can't see what the problem would be. Do you get this with other Synthmaker derived plug ins?

Tp3 · Post by **Tp3** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:26 pm

FILE.

Sorry.

Norton has a reputation based system (among other thing) in which it checks if the file is "OK" with the users. maybe put it in a zip and/or contact symantec in order to make this file available to Norton users.

Thanks !

Dean Aka Nekro · Post by **Dean Aka Nekro** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:18 pm

Thanks Mark, Really like this as having such industrial strength squeling feedbacking distortion ITB/a plug-in is great. I have not tried it subtle yet but at extremes its alot of good fun/useful

All the best

Dean

Saturation/distortion effect - Expresso - update coming soon.....