Eplex7 DSP releases Vintage vacuum tube VD76 plugin effect VST based on real analog circuit simulation technology
- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 212 posts since 10 Nov, 2014
Hello producers,
Eplex7 DSP releases Vintage vacuum tube VD76 plugin effect
Vacuum tube (or also called valve in Great Britan) is electronic component / device used in audio industry mainly as amplification component before transistors were found.
While transistors are cheaper and more effective with longer lifetime, vacuum tubes are very popular until today and preferred by many audiophiles from hi-end listening rooms (vacuum tube amps) to professional recording / mixing studios (equalizers, preamps, compressors, warming devices).
Live drums with VD76 plugin effect
https://youtu.be/6iDnbiIYq_E
The type of vacuum tube known as a thermionic tube / valve uses the phenomenon of thermionic emission of electrons from a hot cathode (electrons are emitted in vacuum tube space of glass tube) with use of heater supply (that is why tube is glowing) and is used for a number of fundamental electronic functions such as signal amplification.
Thanks to heather inside tube not just vacuum tube is hot, but an also sound is significantly warmer. Signal is not going thru wires but thru vacuum tube “space” and electrons are “flying” from hot cathode (warmed with heater) to anode – where amplified signal is received.
This phenomenon affect signal / sound in way appreciated by audiophiles – transients and trebles are not so sharp – they are smoother, rounder and more pleasant to ears, signal is saturated – bass is fatter and warmer, mids and trebles are colored.
https://youtu.be/dn6MTEDe8AM
Vacuum tube also produces range of unique sounding higher harmonics.
Comparing to sterile / precise sound of transistors vacuum tubes add life and vintage warmth to sound which is very desired in today’s digital music production.
Thanks to our more than 17+ years of experiences with digital sound processing and education in analog electronics we created unique algorithm simulating real vacuum tube in very realistic way + thanks to our virtual analog circuit simulation technology we also recreated real analog circuits around tubes which significantly affect sound of whole tube devices (such as production of 1st harmonics and very fat sound).
While most of digital tube plug-in emulations just produce digital distortion and unwanted, harsh sounding digital artifacts which are amplified after mastering / limiting (and not so much rounding of transients) you can hear significant difference when testing and comparing with our analog simulation algorithms – first thing you can hear transients and trebles are really softer, rounder – more pleasant to ears, there is no digital distortion but nice analog saturation, signal is really fatter when circuit power knob is turned right, signal is significantly warmer with little bit of color.
You can use Vintage vacuum tube VD76 plug-in with drums - electronic or acoustic, bass, to make synthesizers warmer and rounder, guitars, vocals, percussion or any other elements of your mix.
Features:
- Eplex7 unique analog emulation technology combining virtual analog circuits, emulation of individual components (like tubes) and hardware capturing methods in selected parts of virtual circuit / scheme of plug-in.
- Input knob (more input = more color and saturation of whole system)
- Triode (Fatter and Warmer type saturation of Triode tube, emulation of triode tube type saturation)
- Pentode (More vintage, thin and dirty type of saturation of Pentode tube, pentode type saturation emulation)
- Circuit power (to add heavy “fatness” to your sound and makes bass / drums big and massive. Pleasant warm and fat sound of vacuum tubes is not generated only by vacuum tubes itself but also thanks to special electronic circuits around them – this knob control virtual circuit which emulates behavior of circuits around vacuum tubes)
- Bass cut filter from 0 to 70 Hz to eliminate deepest subbass
- Circuit / Tube temperature – in electronics higher temperature usually means more noise, because higher temperature means more movements of electrons. Noise is not always unwanted, little bit of analog noise can make signal more natural, more pleasant, less sharp and can eliminate sharp distortion.
- Tube age this special virtual emulation allows you to switch between 3 different types of tubes:
2001 – bright, modern and precise sounding tube,
1950 – old vintage tube with round transients and dark smooth sound,
1976 - vintage tube with silky round transients, trebles and crunchy sound.
Product page / download demo version:
https://eplex7.com/vintage-vacuum-tube- ... ffect-vst/
Price: 29,90 €. There is an introductory price for first 80 customers of: 17,90 €.
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Eplex7 DSP releases Vintage vacuum tube VD76 plugin effect
Vacuum tube (or also called valve in Great Britan) is electronic component / device used in audio industry mainly as amplification component before transistors were found.
While transistors are cheaper and more effective with longer lifetime, vacuum tubes are very popular until today and preferred by many audiophiles from hi-end listening rooms (vacuum tube amps) to professional recording / mixing studios (equalizers, preamps, compressors, warming devices).
Live drums with VD76 plugin effect
https://youtu.be/6iDnbiIYq_E
The type of vacuum tube known as a thermionic tube / valve uses the phenomenon of thermionic emission of electrons from a hot cathode (electrons are emitted in vacuum tube space of glass tube) with use of heater supply (that is why tube is glowing) and is used for a number of fundamental electronic functions such as signal amplification.
Thanks to heather inside tube not just vacuum tube is hot, but an also sound is significantly warmer. Signal is not going thru wires but thru vacuum tube “space” and electrons are “flying” from hot cathode (warmed with heater) to anode – where amplified signal is received.
This phenomenon affect signal / sound in way appreciated by audiophiles – transients and trebles are not so sharp – they are smoother, rounder and more pleasant to ears, signal is saturated – bass is fatter and warmer, mids and trebles are colored.
https://youtu.be/dn6MTEDe8AM
Vacuum tube also produces range of unique sounding higher harmonics.
Comparing to sterile / precise sound of transistors vacuum tubes add life and vintage warmth to sound which is very desired in today’s digital music production.
Thanks to our more than 17+ years of experiences with digital sound processing and education in analog electronics we created unique algorithm simulating real vacuum tube in very realistic way + thanks to our virtual analog circuit simulation technology we also recreated real analog circuits around tubes which significantly affect sound of whole tube devices (such as production of 1st harmonics and very fat sound).
While most of digital tube plug-in emulations just produce digital distortion and unwanted, harsh sounding digital artifacts which are amplified after mastering / limiting (and not so much rounding of transients) you can hear significant difference when testing and comparing with our analog simulation algorithms – first thing you can hear transients and trebles are really softer, rounder – more pleasant to ears, there is no digital distortion but nice analog saturation, signal is really fatter when circuit power knob is turned right, signal is significantly warmer with little bit of color.
You can use Vintage vacuum tube VD76 plug-in with drums - electronic or acoustic, bass, to make synthesizers warmer and rounder, guitars, vocals, percussion or any other elements of your mix.
Features:
- Eplex7 unique analog emulation technology combining virtual analog circuits, emulation of individual components (like tubes) and hardware capturing methods in selected parts of virtual circuit / scheme of plug-in.
- Input knob (more input = more color and saturation of whole system)
- Triode (Fatter and Warmer type saturation of Triode tube, emulation of triode tube type saturation)
- Pentode (More vintage, thin and dirty type of saturation of Pentode tube, pentode type saturation emulation)
- Circuit power (to add heavy “fatness” to your sound and makes bass / drums big and massive. Pleasant warm and fat sound of vacuum tubes is not generated only by vacuum tubes itself but also thanks to special electronic circuits around them – this knob control virtual circuit which emulates behavior of circuits around vacuum tubes)
- Bass cut filter from 0 to 70 Hz to eliminate deepest subbass
- Circuit / Tube temperature – in electronics higher temperature usually means more noise, because higher temperature means more movements of electrons. Noise is not always unwanted, little bit of analog noise can make signal more natural, more pleasant, less sharp and can eliminate sharp distortion.
- Tube age this special virtual emulation allows you to switch between 3 different types of tubes:
2001 – bright, modern and precise sounding tube,
1950 – old vintage tube with round transients and dark smooth sound,
1976 - vintage tube with silky round transients, trebles and crunchy sound.
Product page / download demo version:
https://eplex7.com/vintage-vacuum-tube- ... ffect-vst/
Price: 29,90 €. There is an introductory price for first 80 customers of: 17,90 €.
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- KVRian
- 688 posts since 17 Sep, 2007 from Planet Thanet
Note that it depends on how you use components. Valves can be "sterile and precise" and transistors nothing of the sort; many of the most famous distortion units in the world are transistor designs!
- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 212 posts since 10 Nov, 2014
yes we know, look at our analog labs, we are working with analog circuits almost 2 decades
but this is not distortion unit and nothing can shape transients so nice as vacuum tubes
try demo version if you want.
This is our analog labs: https://youtu.be/6iDnbiIYq_E
but this is not distortion unit and nothing can shape transients so nice as vacuum tubes
try demo version if you want.
This is our analog labs: https://youtu.be/6iDnbiIYq_E
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 212 posts since 10 Nov, 2014
The sound of processed drums with Vintage vacuum tube VD76 plugin effect
https://youtu.be/fX_lgW3h7ZY
https://youtu.be/fX_lgW3h7ZY
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- KVRian
- 1181 posts since 27 May, 2008
I tried it and sounds great. Problem for me it's very close to Black Box HG for most part
- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 212 posts since 10 Nov, 2014
Thank you your feedback. Is there anything you are missing in this type of plugin effect? Maybe we could include new possibilities in a future updates?acousticglue wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:14 pm I tried it and sounds great. Problem for me it's very close to Black Box HG for most part
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- KVRian
- 1016 posts since 16 Aug, 2010 from almost everywhere...
Hello G-Sonique
- KVRist
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- 212 posts since 10 Nov, 2014
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- KVRist
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- 212 posts since 10 Nov, 2014
Acoustic bass fatness and warmth with Vintage vacuum tube VD76 https://youtu.be/6zdxnxxdqkg
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- KVRist
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- 212 posts since 10 Nov, 2014
Reply from tech. engineer from our team / developer of plug-ins "probably because both are very accurate emulations of real vacuum tubes" And thanks for nice words, we did our best to make it as close as possible to real hardware.acousticglue wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:14 pm I tried it and sounds great. Problem for me it's very close to Black Box HG for most part
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Jonathan Shepherd Jonathan Shepherd https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=5644
- KVRian
- 635 posts since 28 Jan, 2003
This adds the right amount of "harmonic heft" to all sorts of audio without sounding muddy. Great job mate-
- KVRist
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- 212 posts since 10 Nov, 2014
Jonathan, thank you for your feedback.Jonathan Shepherd wrote: ↑Thu Nov 26, 2020 9:16 pm This adds the right amount of "harmonic heft" to all sorts of audio without sounding muddy. Great job mate-
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- KVRist
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- 212 posts since 10 Nov, 2014
Slap bass sound with VD76 plugin effect
https://youtu.be/icSEzzhljfQ
https://youtu.be/icSEzzhljfQ
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- KVRian
- 986 posts since 8 Mar, 2009
Didn't you already released a plugin that sounds pretty much like this under one of your other many umbrellas e.g G-Sonique,Pentode Audio and 123Creative?
The main thing you seem to be making a song and dance about, the transient response of the tube age, it just seems to be a lowpass filter that has some very,very minor influence from the main input, and the pentode and triode knobs are just mixing in chebyshev harmonics. as they phase invert when you mix them in at certain ratios and more to the point, i can just tell they are chebyshev harmonics
Do you really have to have that demo limitation as well? That is the most obnoxious introduction of noise i have ever heard on a plugin as far as i can recall, and it's sooo loud. Why can't you just have silence, or have the plugin cease processing after say 15mins to which it only start operating again once you have restarted the plugin. I don't ever get why anybody who has a pair of ears would settle on a noise option as a demo limitation.
The main thing you seem to be making a song and dance about, the transient response of the tube age, it just seems to be a lowpass filter that has some very,very minor influence from the main input, and the pentode and triode knobs are just mixing in chebyshev harmonics. as they phase invert when you mix them in at certain ratios and more to the point, i can just tell they are chebyshev harmonics
Do you really have to have that demo limitation as well? That is the most obnoxious introduction of noise i have ever heard on a plugin as far as i can recall, and it's sooo loud. Why can't you just have silence, or have the plugin cease processing after say 15mins to which it only start operating again once you have restarted the plugin. I don't ever get why anybody who has a pair of ears would settle on a noise option as a demo limitation.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 212 posts since 10 Nov, 2014
sorry you are completely wrong with your prejudices. For example you can try to test pentode and triode knobs with testing sine/saw waves to see that it transform "curve/peaks" same as real tube so your theory with "chebyshev harmonics" is wrong because harmonics do not change shape of transients/peaks etc.. Same with tube age - it affects transients, their shape, smoothing signal, amount of high frequencies too (that is why it can sounds too as low pass if you are not deep in analog electronics and signal processing) same as old vs new tubes etc.TIMT wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 7:49 pm Didn't you already released a plugin that sounds pretty much like this under one of your other many umbrellas e.g G-Sonique,Pentode Audio and 123Creative?
The main thing you seem to be making a song and dance about, the transient response of the tube age, it just seems to be a lowpass filter that has some very,very minor influence from the main input, and the pentode and triode knobs are just mixing in chebyshev harmonics. as they phase invert when you mix them in at certain ratios and more to the point, i can just tell they are chebyshev harmonics
Do you really have to have that demo limitation as well? That is the most obnoxious introduction of noise i have ever heard on a plugin as far as i can recall, and it's sooo loud. Why can't you just have silence, or have the plugin cease processing after say 15mins to which it only start operating again once you have restarted the plugin. I don't ever get why anybody who has a pair of ears would settle on a noise option as a demo limitation.
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