Unfiltered Audio TAILS

[sqigls]

it's available to download in the PA manager...


Shimmering reverb that keeps your decay clean by automatically removing transients and dissonance.

A next-generation reverb that’s creative and clean
Unfiltered Audio joins forces with superstar producer BT to create a reverb that provides unparalleled sound expansion and consonance. Thanks to its “polytonal dual buffer” and auto-ducking capabilities, TAILS automatically removes dissonances and transients from your reverb tails, keeping your decays as clean and impressive as possible.

Unique filter capabilities
TAILS analyzes incoming audio, listening for major transients and note changes. Whenever its threshold is met, the reverb instantly ducks and switches over to an empty reverb buffer, which blooms rapidly. This results in a clean reverb decay that is free of discord from metallic hits and out-of-key notes. It can even pre-duck incoming transients to keep them from ever cluttering up your reverb, to begin with, providing a tail that’s unusually smooth.

Four reverb engines in one
TAILS features multiple reverb engines for even more creative choices, including the beautiful new SHIMMER mode, tuned to BT’s exacting tastes. Also on board are the classic DEEP and RENOUN modes found in BYOME, and the surreal SPATIAL mode from SILO.

Powerful & CPU efficient enough
Even with all of these wild features, TAILS is the perfect workhorse reverb. With less than 1% CPU usage on an M1 Macbook Air, you'll be able to add Tails to any track without worrying about it. Advanced MIDI integration allows you to use note messages to mute the buffer for rhythmic interest and precise editing, and to create unique performance opportunities with the Mod and Pitch Wheels.

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https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/prod ... tails.html

[GaryG]

Interesting. The DEEP reverb in Byome/Triad is lovely so will be curious to see if this adds much, the smart filtering etc. I guess it will have to as a lot of people will have three quarters of the algos already. Will demo...

Thanks.

[wakax]

played with it this morning.
I love it Its a verb you would like on any percussive and drum-like tracks (even plucks)
to have space and not to mush the sound. And it does have some fun extreme presets (try those too)
from EmptyVessel. Bigups Unfiltered Audio (and BT).

[WasteLand]

indeed, interesting. i only can repeat the words of @GaryG... the Deep Reverb is great.
this has some tricks...

but, as for the usual suspects effects, i had phases that i bought the ones i liked, also reverbs of course. don't extend those a lot anymore.

but it is Unfiltered Audio. so.. and PA, will be great price at some time, it is the way it is, although i bought sometimes stuff at intro prices with vouchers, yes indeed some UA stuff also...

i hope there Unfiltered Audio will also go again for Spectral Madness.... but that beside this thread, off topic, etc. etc.

but i was quite impressed with Silo, Bass Mint i bought more because it was UA; still it has its place when needed.
LO-FI-FA, isn't in my arsenal yet. the sounds i make, sound already if they went through it...

[dayjob]

awesome. can't wait to check this out. looks really flexible for sound design and creative stuff.

[thelizard]

i hope there Unfiltered Audio will also go again for Spectral Madness.... but that beside this thread, off topic, etc. etc.

but i was quite impressed with Silo, Bass Mint i bought more because it was UA; still it has its place when needed.
LO-FI-FA, isn't in my arsenal yet. the sounds i make, sound already if they went through it...

Thanks! Just as a bit of history, we've been steadily chipping away at this with BT for 3-4 years. It actually started sometime around the release of BYOME and Triad. There's a lot to the MIDI performance of this plugin. A lot of my requests during development came out of my listening to Autechre's Elseq, especially "pendulu hv moda". I talk about this a bit in an upcoming interview video that should be published soon. The essential part is that you can map two MIDI keys, one to temporarily mute the reverb, the other to kill the reverb's buffer contents. Additionally, the pitch and mod wheels can target two other parameters. One use case that I keep going to is opening the Decay up with one wheel, and then tapping the kill switch to abruptly silence the blooming tail.

lo-fi-af was actually the first "return" to spectral since SpecOps. Most of what it does (aside from the iterative 0-shift) can be done with SpecOps, but it's a lot simpler and more optimized. We have two more plugins in what we're calling the "lo-fi-af trilogy" that will be out this year, and then we have a bunch of heavier stuff in the background, including SpecOps 2 and a drum synth. These are probably late 2023 releases if I had to guess.

[dayjob]

can't wait for all the new things. great news.

[WasteLand]

The essential part is that you can map two MIDI keys, one to temporarily mute the reverb, the other to kill the reverb's buffer contents. Additionally, the pitch and mod wheels can target two other parameters. One use case that I keep going to is opening the Decay up with one wheel, and then tapping the kill switch to abruptly silence the blooming tail.

i didn't download the demo yet, but saw the vid, and indeed saw the controls which means, well you tell it... those are pretty great. Tails will be certainly added to my arsenal...

lo-fi-af was actually the first "return" to spectral since SpecOps. Most of what it does (aside from the iterative 0-shift) can be done with SpecOps, but it's a lot simpler and more optimized. We have two more plugins in what we're calling the "lo-fi-af trilogy" that will be out this year, and then we have a bunch of heavier stuff in the background, including SpecOps 2 and a drum synth. These are probably late 2023 releases if I had to guess.

me like SpecOps, and lo-fi-af, well the spectral part attracted me the most.
i use SpecOps regularly, and although i deeped dive a year or 1 1/2 or more, into spectral, i dived too deep (as sometimes do, and well..), it as the advantage that i can fine tune SpecOps better, because of the better understanding.

i already wanted to ask if there will be a SpecOps 2.... i hope it will be a bin shifting/manipulating monster. it is hard for me to reproduce in clear phrases what i like to see, myself. Soundmagic Spectral or Plogue Bidule are in way examples.

but SpecOps (1) is already quite capable... and in combination of other spectral processors, or working 'by hand', well you can accomplish a lot.

well this is the TAILS thread. so i stop here...

great to hear that SpecOps 2 will come, that was a personal wish.

in the end, every Unfiltered Audio plugin will end up in my arsenal..

(Silo, unexpected, i have used on a lot of tracks and unfinished or better projects, that are only made for creating sounds, and to sample them. it is quite powerfull for, what is the best term? recomposition, no; resounding, no! extracting and well my english...
in a way, or in a way!, all UA plugins can do that, that is why i like them, and have them all, except lo-fi-af, and TAILS...)

of course, all the other plugins, will get my attention, but SpecOps 2, i wish my i could express better the things i want, but i believe, they will come, without my expression....

congrats! on TAILS by the way! i have reverbs i want (including MTurboReverb, with if don't are afraid to type, can do spectral stuff...), but this one, i see, this will add something.

well, always my too personal approach, but o well, it is personal; music, and at the same time; public. (and i am reading an essay from simone de beauvoir......... stop... to the point! well, it has some merits... for...)

[Digivolt]

It sounds pretty good, I probably don't need it because I already have adaptiverb which from reading does the same but in slightly different wording, even if it's half as good as adaptiverb, when it eventually hits the PA $29.99 sale price it'll be a fantastic value in comparison!

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

This seems like it's going to be pretty great but I too will wait for the crazy $29.99 price. No offense Michael. Maybe the first $49.99 sale!

[masterhiggins]

i hope there Unfiltered Audio will also go again for Spectral Madness.... but that beside this thread, off topic, etc. etc.

but i was quite impressed with Silo, Bass Mint i bought more because it was UA; still it has its place when needed.
LO-FI-FA, isn't in my arsenal yet. the sounds i make, sound already if they went through it...

Thanks! Just as a bit of history, we've been steadily chipping away at this with BT for 3-4 years. It actually started sometime around the release of BYOME and Triad. There's a lot to the MIDI performance of this plugin. A lot of my requests during development came out of my listening to Autechre's Elseq, especially "pendulu hv moda". I talk about this a bit in an upcoming interview video that should be published soon. The essential part is that you can map two MIDI keys, one to temporarily mute the reverb, the other to kill the reverb's buffer contents. Additionally, the pitch and mod wheels can target two other parameters. One use case that I keep going to is opening the Decay up with one wheel, and then tapping the kill switch to abruptly silence the blooming tail.

Congrats on the new release. Sorry if you’ve addressed this before, but why did you guys stop using your mod system on your last few plugins?

[thecontrolcentre]

Looks great ... I have everything else by UA so will hopefully get a good price (with vouchers applied). I noticed the individual demo installer is available now, but think I'll wait until it goes on general sale.

[pixel85]

Very interesting concept. My impression is, after only watching the demo video, that it sounds very unnatural/artificial. I don't think that vocals or piano are the best sources for this kind of reverb. Synths, 'artificial' sounds - I suppose that it would suit it better.
Zynaptiq Adaptiverb seems to have something similar: 'Harmonic Filtering'. But it's quite expensive and as we know PA, this one will be cheap after several months.

[greententacle]

zynaptiq adaptiverb does this much smoother.
(as the examples in the video)

[greententacle]

The Tail in the Video sounds just "ducked" or muted.