https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPr7rmkMuQY
TL;DW: Coils models the types of distortion you'll find in transformers.
Coils.zip(357k)
OK, I think this worked. Apologies for being fried and stressed: I was operating under time pressure (four HOURS driving today, doing stuff) and was halfway through making a video when I worked out there was a serious bug in the plugin. After a frantic bugfix, I did another video that was even more frazzled, only to discover I wasn't even wearing my lavalier mic. So, by the time I made the video you see, I pretty much had no effs left to give, and after a busy day, I've completed the updating and here's the plugin. Love ya, and usually it's easier than this
Coils is like the inverse of Focus. Instead of boosting/distorting UP the mids, it saturates DOWN the extreme highs and lows leaving the mids untouched. Because it's a fixed mid shape mimicking the Neve transformer picture I was shown, the biquad doesn't have to run inside Console as it's not a high-Q filter at all (you'll notice way more of an effect on steep filters) so it trades off that effect for less processing. The saturation is the Density algorithm, but without clipping, so if you trash it you get wrap-around on the transfer function curve, which works out to be kinda transformery.
Apologies. I am too tired to translate. Listen to the plugin. If anything is broken, tell me right away, tomorrow
The top control increasingly distorts (still kinda subtle), the middle one DC biases the core (second harmonics!) which does more when you're less saturated, and then there's a dry/wet. Enjoy
Oh yeah, Patreon. Almost forgot.
Airwindows Coils: Mac/Windows/Linux AU/VST
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- KVRian
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- 1317 posts since 7 Apr, 2007 from Bellows Falls, VT
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- KVRist
- 125 posts since 2 Nov, 2014
Hi chris,
Imho, traffos are the most overlooked components in (60ies sci-fi-TV-show-announcer-voice) : "The holy search for the analog vibe!". All the folks are drooling over tubes preamp and tapes machines, yet I find a right pair of traffos (and a tiny bit of crosstalk bleed), the most forgiving & pleasant way to glue a whole mix together.
So naturally I am being picky when it comes to talking about traffo modelling.
Did you implement any magnetic hysteresis concepts in Coils? I'm sure you know more about the mystic principles of hysteresis then any of us.
And yes, traffo model would be a perfect match for Console summing lineup.
Imho, traffos are the most overlooked components in (60ies sci-fi-TV-show-announcer-voice) : "The holy search for the analog vibe!". All the folks are drooling over tubes preamp and tapes machines, yet I find a right pair of traffos (and a tiny bit of crosstalk bleed), the most forgiving & pleasant way to glue a whole mix together.
So naturally I am being picky when it comes to talking about traffo modelling.
Did you implement any magnetic hysteresis concepts in Coils? I'm sure you know more about the mystic principles of hysteresis then any of us.
And yes, traffo model would be a perfect match for Console summing lineup.