MVintageRotary betaversion!

[Quietinthedark]

So, put this to the test..

32-bit took a lot of abuse without much clicking or complaining in FL Studio 11.0.3. One modulator with fairly fast noise/mess set to switch between fast and slow and another also with fairly fast noise/mess set to switch between the three amp types with distortion and character cranked up a bit and I only registred one little click that could as well have been the soundcard complaining about too much other software running at the same time. Threw in some automation of fast/slow switch and the fast + slow rates. Still nothing blew up in my face.

In FL Studio I can only resize the GUI to the right side, not downwards. Is this intended?

Seems to work fine in the Reaper 64-bit demo too (v4.402), did some crazy automation of fast rate and no complaints or what I would consider unwanted artifacts from MVintageRotary. Here also I can only change how wide or narrow the GUI is, not it's vertical size.

I wish for an alternative bigger GUI where I can have the so called "advanced" features fully visible within the regular GUI at all times as those are the ones I want to muck about with. As there are "only" 2 of your lovely modulators I'll probably be automating those "hidden" parameters most of the time anyway, so I can live without it though I'd appreciate such an option.

It seems a bit more CPU intensive than I would have expected, but it sounds really nice on the semi-pad-ish sound I threw together quickly in Z3TA+ 2 to test it with so I guess it's worth it. Modulating the rates sounds sweet to my ears. Disclaimer: I haven't ever been even close to a real rotary speaker that I know of so I can't say anything about how "authentic" it sounds, just that I found what it does to the right sounds really pleasing.

I'll see if I can't put it through some heavier abuse too check of anything seems to fall apart then, or if it'll still behave no matter what I throw at it. I'll also see if I can virtually "dig out" some hosts I seldom use to test it with those as well, the demo of Renoise and my NFR copy of Orion that haven't seen much use since I invested in FL Studio.. Anything specific you'd like me to try out, any specific kind of automation or modulation or something?

Anyone else got around to trying this thing out?

Thanks for the review.

[Gone soft]

Mr Donaldson provides independent speed for the bass and treble speakers, a nice feature.)

So does MVintageRotary (sort of), it's just that those parameters are hidden away under the advanced tab in the form of setting the bass rotary speed as a multiple of the slow or fast rate. You can assign these to a multiparameter for easier access. I understand the "regular" MRotary or whatever it'll be called will have more stuff readily available for all sorts of modulation madness and subtlety.

Thanks for the review.

Not really intended as a review, just trying to be helpful and thorough when testing the betaversion. But anyway, you're welcome.

[MeldaProduction]

Pheleep: But MVintageRotary has speed controls for both speakers. It doesn't have separate slow/fast switch, but I don't think people would use this really, and otherwise you can set up anything. And if you need slow/fast switch for separate speakers, you can simulate it using multiparameters in switch mode .