What's up with the market for spectral delay plugins?

[aMUSEd]

I love NI Spectral Delay and surprisingly it still works pretty well in 32 bit hosts (NI built it well) but it won't last forever (Vokator is starting to break now) and I need something to replace it in 64 bit and the alternatives are just not there. I bought Izotope Spectron and they decided to stop selling it, and it was never as good as Spectral delay anyway. There is Obelisk but it hasn't been updated since 2014 and also seemed rather limited compared with NI's plugin when I demoed it. Is there just not enough people buying this sort of plugin to warrant companies bothering with them?

[ariston]

Well, there's Spectrumworx, which is hugely capable but also a bit dodgy on my system (causes crashes infrequently). Sadly, development of this one seems to have ceased; feels like ages since the last update.

Also, NIs Molekular can do a lot of this type of sound processing.

These are usually tweakers' dream-come-true plugins, and there's a big learning curve there (if you want to get useful sounds, that is). That might deter a lot of users, I don't know.

[thecontrolcentre]

There are some nice spectral fx available for M4L ...

[aMUSEd]

Yeah I have both but neither has the exact feature set of Spectral Delay, what I particularly miss is not being able to draw in spectral filters in realtime.

[aMUSEd]

There are some nice spectral fx available for M4L ...

Yeah they are probably the best, but just for M4L and Live.

[Daags]

Spectral Delay is 'only' a spectral filter with some lfo/delay built in ?? Greater than the sum of its parts, perhaps ..and saving presets etc...

still though, it should be achievable with currently available spectral tools combined with modulation and delay signals ?

expert sleepers, for example, have a spectral plugin you can draw in real time....

[aMUSEd]

Oh you mean this?

http://www.expert-sleepers.co.uk/spectralconquest.html

looks good (although ugly) - just trying the demo, the drawing is great, no delay though, but I could build an fx chain in Kore with it at least.

[VariKusBrainZ]

http://www.artificialaudio.com/productmenu/2

http://anarchysoundsoftware.co.uk/anarc ... age_id=145

http://www.sfxmachine.com/spectralmachine/

Or you could try the ones available for Reaktor / Bidule.

I use SpectrumWorx and Spectron

[MogwaiBoy]

http://www.artificialaudio.com/productmenu/2

http://anarchysoundsoftware.co.uk/anarc ... age_id=145

http://www.sfxmachine.com/spectralmachine/

Or you could try the ones available for Reaktor / Bidule.

I use SpectrumWorx and Spectron

Spectral Machine is only $20... I am interested in their Backwards Machine at the moment - seems like they make quite creative, unique effects.

[Neon Breath]

GRM Tools Fusion is a very unique spectral delay with special features like glissando & deep filtering:

http://www.inagrm.com/fusion

Max For Live has some interesting and pretty nice spectral delay devices too:

http://www.maxforlive.com/library/index ... tral+delay

[Klinke1]

Maybe try Bidule.
Can has spectral modules + delays + LFO + VST2/3..in feedback-loop.

[aMUSEd]

Yes I have that too, the problem as stated is none really have the Spectral delay interface that allows for freehand drawing in of spectral filters in realtime. Spectron was the closest but it no longer works even in most of my 32 bit hosts.

[Michael L]

Have you played with Loomer's Shift? Not a filter but can get similar results, nice visual gui & tweakable in realtime.
Also SoundHack Delay Bundle (free, crossplatform, no visual gui but gives good sound fast - my fave)
MichaelNorris for mac only, wild but finicky.
And if you use an ipad as a plugin, many choices....

[XComposer]

If you have Max 7 (free download, it is necessary just as a player to run the patches), you can use a very good spectral delay Max patch I have just found here:
http://www.mdw.ac.at/zimt/

[pekbro]

Melda Productions is coming out with MSpectralDelay, its in beta currently.
Not sure it will do what you need as I never used the NI plugin.

Worth checking out...

-Cheers