Saturation/distortion effect - Expresso - update coming soon.....
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1461 posts since 26 Jun, 2002 from London, UK
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
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
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- KVRAF
- 8408 posts since 2 Aug, 2005 from Guitar Land, USA
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.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1461 posts since 26 Jun, 2002 from London, UK
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.
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.
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- KVRAF
- 8408 posts since 2 Aug, 2005 from Guitar Land, USA
Pretty cool, pretty weird. I like the colors/knobs. The preset manager could use some custom coloring.
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https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCprNcvVH6aPTehLv8J5xokA -Youtube jams
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1461 posts since 26 Jun, 2002 from London, UK
Thanks, cool and weird sound like my kind of descriptorsRunBeerRun wrote:Pretty cool, pretty weird. I like the colors/knobs. The preset manager could use some custom coloring.
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!
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- KVRist
- 450 posts since 22 Nov, 2005
Thanks for the plugin man !
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1461 posts since 26 Jun, 2002 from London, UK
Sorry. Here it is:Kriminal wrote:wheres the fuckin screen shot ?
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1461 posts since 26 Jun, 2002 from London, UK
Thanks! Sounds good too
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- KVRAF
- 2138 posts since 8 Feb, 2007
As it is, Norton Security deletes the files, based on its "reputation"
Professional technicians are assessed by the abilities they possess.
Amateur technicians are assessed by the tools they possess - and the amount of those tools, with an obvious preference to the latest hyped ones.
(Gabe Dumbbell)
Amateur technicians are assessed by the tools they possess - and the amount of those tools, with an obvious preference to the latest hyped ones.
(Gabe Dumbbell)
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1461 posts since 26 Jun, 2002 from London, UK
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?
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- KVRAF
- 2138 posts since 8 Feb, 2007
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 !
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 !
Professional technicians are assessed by the abilities they possess.
Amateur technicians are assessed by the tools they possess - and the amount of those tools, with an obvious preference to the latest hyped ones.
(Gabe Dumbbell)
Amateur technicians are assessed by the tools they possess - and the amount of those tools, with an obvious preference to the latest hyped ones.
(Gabe Dumbbell)
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- KVRAF
- 6178 posts since 4 Oct, 2007 from Escaped At Last
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
All the best
Dean