KVR Audio is the Internet's number one news and information resource for open standard audio plugins. We report new releases, product announcements and product updates (major and minor) for all VST Plugins, DirectX Plugins and Audio Units Plugins. We manage a fully searchable audio plugin database (updated daily), and offer many free member services including user reviews, product update notifications and a very active discussion forum. We also host official support forums for many plugin developers plus the official Receptor support forum.
Plug-in Database: Virtual
Instruments, Effects & Hosts
Banks & Patches
Download & Upload
Plug-in Ratings
by KVR Members
Wiki: Tutorials,
Audio Lexicon, ...
Listen to Music
by KVR Members
Search
KVR
Quick
Links

Google Powered Search:

in new window

KVR Powered Plug-in Search:

Hematohm
by Ohm Force
11 members are watching Hematohm for news
Product Hematohm
Developer Ohm Force
Primary Type Frequency shifter
Price (MSRP) €79
Plug-in Formats
Effect(s)VSTDirectXAudio Unit
Operating System Availability
Operating
System
Latest
Version
Download Is it
Available?
Windows 1.30 Demo / TrialReleased
Mac OS XMac OS X Universal Binary 1.30 Demo / TrialReleased
Miscellaneous Information
Copy Protection Serial Number
Average User Rating Average rating - 9.250
Fully Compatible
advertisement
Hematohm
Sometimes, you really need to break the harmonic content of a tune. Better than a ring modulator, Hematohm is a frequency shifter. Behind this easy but gloomy user interface, you'll find a machine that will allow you to triturate the sound more than in your most pervert dreams. This tool of torture is delivered with a vicious envelope follower, a strong LFO, and a delay coming from forgotten depths.
  • High quality Frequency Shifter.
  • LFO with 10 waveforms, including 3 randomised shapes, in order to create an unlimited number of sound modulation patterns.
  • An envelope follower very useful to add some colour to your rhythmic sounds.
  • A Delay containing the main effect inside its loop, which helps to get the sound more and more changed across the repetitions. The effect location can be set in the direct forward path or in the delay feedback path only.
  • MIDI automation for VST, DirectX and WinAmp version (restricted to Expert and Pro Pack licenses only).
  • With MIDI feature, it's also possible to adjust the LFO phase to get accurate tempo synchronization and to obtain very musical and rhythmic effects.
  • Very fine MIDI control. All RPN and NRPN data sent or recorded by Hematohm are 14-bit accurate.
  • Easy MIDI configuration with Auto-Bind feature.
  • Fast configuration : Save MIDI configurations into files and reload them to avoid to repeat the same operations each time you fire the plug-in.
  • Move several buttons in one move, with group selection and side-click.
  • Instant result : with many sequencers (cubase, Orion...), Hematohm adjusts itself to the right tempo and follows any occurring change.
  • Useful presets, loadable on-the-fly, that can be applied instantly or with long or very long transitions where all the parameters switch from the old value to the new one in a ballet you won't forget!

User Reviews by KVR Members for Hematohm.

CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR REVIEW


By kritikon
On 21st November 2003
Version: 1.3

Read all reviews by
kritikon


1 of 1 people found
this review helpful.

Was this review
helpful to you?
Yes | No
  GUI
Sound
Features
Docs
Presets
Support
VFM
Stability
I didn't give a great review of Frohmage, but now I can let rip with a review of the other Ohmforce plugins - As with all of theirs, they are flexible and very very distinctive. Haematohm is possibly one of their weirdest ones released - and I love it.

Sound - It's a frequency shifter - in practice it sounds like a pitch shifter but not quite. Basically if you put, say, a drum loop through it, it'll sound like the drums are being pitched up or down, but it's far more extreme than that, as it's shifting the actual frequencies in it to huge ranges away from normal up to KHz or down to double figure Hz. The difference you hear from a pitch shifter is that it retains the original quality of the sound much more than a pitch shifter would (sounds odd I know) - whereas if you pitch shifted a vocal it would sound like Smurfs, Haematohm retains the quality of the speech somehow - difficult to explain in words.
An added bonus is the delay which is fed back into the shifting. This means the delay can constantly rise or fall or both with the LFO - similar to what you get in some of the better h/w FX units. This can create weird alien landscapes or be useful in moderation with drums or hats to subtly alter their "pitch" and give a more human feel and sound. Or be used as a kind of chorus to vocals - In fact you could use it to double track a vocal line, but pitched down a little without all the hassle of either rerecording the vocal or time stretching/pitch shifting via a sampler. Not realistic if overdone though.

One trick Pony? On first hearing and some extreme FX, you might think so, but as mentioned above it has extremely useful real world applications that can save you an immense amount of time and effort over doing it the traditional way. One of its presets is called Human Touch (if I remember correctly) - try that out on drum lines or vocals and be surprised at how subtle but effective it is. Or you could feed a synth note into it and make what basically are arpeggios - musical if done right, or weirdly alien if not (which is good). You can control how much shift is introduced, how much delay, and how much the delay is shifted - marvellous.
It can also be a great master or group effect for the odd bit of weirdness - pitch up a whole group, or the song at the breakdown or end of an intro as a crescendo - or just use it on cheesey techno snare rolls - instant in-yer-face effect!

VFM - I got it when they did $10 specials so it was an absolute bargain - now it's more realistically priced, so maybe you should test it out first - it's one you won't use regularly, but when you do it has no equal, especially if you want weird. So weigh those 2 things up.

Features - didn't give it 10/10 because it doesn't do everything you might want, but that's small fry compared to how individual it sounds when you do. It's not a studio essential, but if you like odd FX they don't come too much odder than this, but it's eminently useable.
 
   Report
Latest 1 review from a total of 1

Reviews, articles, interviews, etc. for Hematohm.

None listed yet.

Products by Ohm Force

Product: Frohmage
Developer: Ohm Force
Type: Filter
Price: Free
OS&Formats: WindowsMac OS XUniversal BinaryVSTAudio UnitDirectX
Frohmage is a multi-band resonant filter. It can offer some unique sounds, from slow and deep filter sweeps to the most savage tones with high resonance setting and heavy distortion. Highly resonant low-pass filter. Cutoff frequency unit selection : Hz or musical note. Up to 15 additional bands, harmonically distributed. Delay on each band for unique phaser effects. Distortion stage, with two routing schemes. Very fine MIDI control (PRN and NPRN sent or recorded by Frohmage are 14-bit accurate). Low CPU load.... [more]

 
Product: Hematohm
Developer: Ohm Force
Type: Frequency shifter
Price: €79
OS&Formats: WindowsMac OS XUniversal BinaryVSTAudio UnitDirectX
Sometimes, you really need to break the harmonic content of a tune. Better than a ring modulator, Hematohm is a frequency shifter. Behind this easy but gloomy user interface, you'll find a machine that will allow you to triturate the sound more than in your most pervert dreams. This tool of torture is delivered with a vicious envelope follower, a strong LFO, and a delay coming from forgotten depths.High quality Frequency Shifter. LFO with 10 waveforms, including 3 randomised shapes, in order to create an unlimited number of sound modulation patterns. An envelope follower very useful to add ... [more]

 
Product: Mobilohm
Developer: Ohm Force
Type: Modulation (Flanger / Phaser / Chorus / Tremelo)
Price: €79
OS&Formats: WindowsMac OS XUniversal BinaryVSTAudio UnitDirectX
Mobilohm is a powerful multi-phaser, using 4 oscillators, that sounds unique. This plugin is a must have among your sound sculpting effects. It will really satisfy the hunger of musicians tired of filters, looking for a cool tool to animate their sounds in a new way, from the gentlest caress to full-on swirling waves of sound. Mobilohm is definitely not just another "one phaser" effect. Like the OhmBoyz, it comes with a shock of LFOs that extend its capacities far beyond a simple effect. And you'll enjoy the power of preset morphing and ultra-smooth controls.Mobilohm is available in two forms:... [more]

 
Product: OhmBoyz
Developer: Ohm Force
Type: Delay / Echo
Price: €79
OS&Formats: WindowsMac OS XUniversal BinaryVSTAudio UnitDirectX
Who are the OhmBoyz ? 4 predelays injecting into 2 nicely geared delay lines, two complete resonant filters, distortion and high shelf. Remember, a delay is an echoing device. You really should prepare your sound to travel through space along with the OhmBoyz.This delay does not "click". LFOs everywhere. Who wants a resonant filter ? high pass, low pass, band notch, wah-wah, adjustable bandwidth and resonance from -24dB to +24dB : enough to deafen to death your most respectable neighbours. Serious distortion ! Choose between overdrive and puncher... or anywhere in between... A high-s... [more]

 
Product: Ohmicide : Melohman
Developer: Ohm Force
Type: Distortion / Overdrive / Amp
Price: €79+
OS&Formats: WindowsMac OS XUniversal BinaryVSTAudio Unit
Based on Predatohm's design, Ohmicide:Melohman is organized around up to four frequency bands, each of them coming with their own Noise Gate, Dynamic, Distortion, Feedback Generator and all mixing abilities with just a twist of pre- and post-processing (distort input, high shelf output...). The DSP is 100% different from Predatohm: the compressor/expander works differently to fit well with both the very sharp Noise Gate and the huge amount of new distortions. Those are at the core of Ohmicide. They're designed to offer pretty much everything you can think of next to a lot of things you can't. ... [more]

 
Product: Predatohm
Developer: Ohm Force
Type: Distortion / Overdrive / Amp
Price: €79
OS&Formats: WindowsMac OS XUniversal BinaryVSTAudio UnitDirectX
Predatohm is an effect plug-in that has been fully designed from a simple fact : sometimes you need to make BIG, PHAT, WILD and WARM sounds.First " user-friendly " multiband compressor/expandor ever. Choose your weapon : Multiband distortion, with many distortion schemes available. Warm, bright sound with the guitar feedback generator. Quick and efficient sound shaping provided by the tone setting. Make it wide with the Stereo Expander. Optional High Quality rendering. Integrated preset morphing solution. MIDI Automation : control your Predatohm via MIDI. (this feature is only availa... [more]

 
Product: Quad Frohmage
Developer: Ohm Force
Type: Filter
Price: €149
OS&Formats: WindowsMac OS XUniversal BinaryVSTAudio UnitDirectX
A Four filters unit that you can assemble in every possible way.30 filter modes for each of those filters.Advanced LFO module with 10 LFO types, Sample and Hold and smoothness control.Advanced Envelope Follower module with Attack, Hold and Release settings.Advanced XADSR module with and extra Sustain time parameter and an incredibly handy Sensitivity setting.Apply those modulators to any parameter you want - even the three at the same time, using a factor from -1 to +1.Easy BPM synchronization for all the modulation parameters - not only LFO but actually any parameter related to time (like ...... [more]

 
Product: Symptohm : Melohman
Developer: Ohm Force
Type: Synth (Hybrid)
Price: €199
OS&Formats: WindowsMac OS XUniversal BinaryVSTAudio Unit
Two unique sample based SyncGrain synthesis (Polyphonic or mono timbral, depending on preference). Create a morphing oscillator out of any sample, and even use multi samples to create drumkits! Adaptable sub oscillator brightness based on SyncGrain spectral content, a stereo noise generator, a ring modulator per voice. Also features inter-voice ring modulation. Dynamic routing of the signal into the Quad Frohmage filter bank (with loads of filter types, distortion, band delay and everything else you would expect). Extensive modulation options (one LFO + one xADSR per parameter + MIDI) for alm... [more]

 
Coming Soon...