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audiothing · Post by **audiothing** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 3:22 pm

The Orb is a formant filter plugin which simulates the characteristics of the human voice. Featuring a set of three band pass filters, The Orb can transform any sound into a vowel-like formant-filtered sound. With the three LFOs you can modulate the Vowel, the Emphasis/Resonance of the formants, and the Drift, which can shift up or down the frequencies of each formant.
You can also create your own set of vowels by changing name and frequency for each vowel/formant.

Specifications

Price: $49 / €49 (VAT inc.)
Three Band Pass Filters (ZDF design)
Vowel Sets: Male, Female, Child and Custom
3 LFOs (destinations: Vowel, Emphasis and Drift)
Lightweight on CPU
Preset system with randomizer
Formats: VST, VST3, AU, and AAX (32/64bit)
Platforms: OSX, Windows

Product Page: https://www.audiothing.net/effects/the-orb/

Video Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8cvlDaK2RA
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/audiothing/sets/the-orb

Product Page: https://www.audiothing.net/effects/the-orb/

audiothing · Post by **audiothing** » Sat Oct 15, 2016 3:50 pm

Check out this new track by composer Eddie Grey featuring The Orb!
https://soundcloud.com/hftracksalbums/jupiter-full

Aryaroman · Post by **Aryaroman** » Sun Oct 16, 2016 3:06 am

The guitar demos are amazing! Once again you've crafted an effect that does what it says on the cover and it does that well. This could even replace a vocal synth for some things. Brilliant!

audiothing · Post by **audiothing** » Sun Oct 16, 2016 5:55 pm

Aryaroman wrote:The guitar demos are amazing! Once again you've crafted an effect that does what it says on the cover and it does that well. This could even replace a vocal synth for some things. Brilliant!

Thanks for your feedback! I'm glad you like the demos

we'll post more in the following days.

realmarco · Post by **realmarco** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 5:36 am

what would be great would be the ability to type in words that the Effect would cycle through

Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 6:52 am

Well, was that one of the easiest decisions in a long time – bought the license after about five minutes of demoing…

Very cool effect, very funky! Works great with AudioThing's Space Strip (nothing to do with female astronauts, you understand).

/Joachim

audiothing · Post by **audiothing** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 5:09 pm

realmarco wrote:what would be great would be the ability to type in words that the Effect would cycle through

That would be cool indeed, another user suggested a feature to trigger the vowels via MIDI. I'll see what I can do.

audiothing · Post by **audiothing** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 5:10 pm

Spitfire31 wrote:Well, was that one of the easiest decisions in a long time – bought the license after about five minutes of demoing…

Very cool effect, very funky! Works great with AudioThing's Space Strip (nothing to do with female astronauts, you understand).

/Joachim

Thanks, I'm glad you like it and that it's in good company

audiothing · Post by **audiothing** » Wed Oct 19, 2016 8:56 pm

New video demo (based on the first audio demo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRLKLPRSfP0

Dunc · Post by **Dunc** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 10:05 am

@ audiothing

Anyway to get slower LFO - say 16 Bars or 0.01Hz ?

If not then, feature request please

audiothing · Post by **audiothing** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 5:59 pm

Dunc wrote:@ audiothing

Anyway to get slower LFO - say 16 Bars or 0.01Hz ?

If not then, feature request please

Absolutely, I've got other requests for a slower LFO. I'll try to do it in the next update.

blortblort · Post by **blortblort** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 2:24 am

audiothing wrote:
Dunc wrote:@ audiothing

Anyway to get slower LFO - say 16 Bars or 0.01Hz ?

If not then, feature request please
Absolutely, I've got other requests for a slower LFO. I'll try to do it in the next update.

Thank you! That'll be icing on a very tasty cake!

Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 2:41 am

Having spent some time playing with The Orb, the one feature request on top of my list is simple MIDI Learn for the individual controls. Right now, when right-clicking the controls, I can 'lock' and 'unlock' the random function. Maybe Shift+right click or similar could be used for MIDI learn?

/Joachim

audiothing · Post by **audiothing** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 4:38 pm

Spitfire31 wrote:Having spent some time playing with The Orb, the one feature request on top of my list is simple MIDI Learn for the individual controls. Right now, when right-clicking the controls, I can 'lock' and 'unlock' the random function. Maybe Shift+right click or similar could be used for MIDI learn?

/Joachim

Hmm, so far I have avoided internal MIDI learn as it's quite easy to do it inside any modern DAW (all parameters can be automated/associated with any MIDI control).
For example in Logic you just press +L or in Ableton Live you just click on the MIDI button (top-right).

Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 5:12 pm

audiothing wrote:
Spitfire31 wrote:Having spent some time playing with The Orb, the one feature request on top of my list is simple MIDI Learn for the individual controls. Right now, when right-clicking the controls, I can 'lock' and 'unlock' the random function. Maybe Shift+right click or similar could be used for MIDI learn?

/Joachim
Hmm, so far I have avoided internal MIDI learn as it's quite easy to do it inside any modern DAW (all parameters can be automated/associated with any MIDI control).
For example in Logic you just press +L or in Ableton Live you just click on the MIDI button (top-right).

I find the Ableton MIDI control hopelessly obtuse. I want 'simple': ctrl-click a knob, wiggle the physical knob or slider on my controller, and that's it. I'd hoped I wouldn't have to play at being a programmer for such a simple thing, which is implemented for many of my synths.

Disappointed.

/Joachim

AudioThing releases The Orb - Formant Filter - Update v1.1