Best new experimental/creative/out-there/secret weapon effects?

[worldfever]

My main issue with Specops is how easy it is to push into sheer noise. It's useful to have complete audio destruction at extreme settings, but Specops seems sensitive in that regard. But I haven't spent that much time with it yet.

no, you're right. ive used it for like 6 years now, but i basically only use it nowadays to get a kind of glitchy specific pitch shift. i find it hard to "musically" reconstruct or treat sounds without them just sounding like super dissonant or destroyed, but i guess that is partly due to the nature of spectral processing. i guess in the right hands, specops is very capable, but i think like you said using the controls pretty subtly is key there, find the magicDSP plugins and also infiltrator a bit easier in that regard

[ChamomileShark]

I've found the same with Spec Ops. I got it when it came out, carried along by the usual KvR excitement for the latest shiny toy. I think if it wasn't for it being tied to the PA licence arrangements I would have sold it by now.

[HOTF]

impulsively bought Molekular because of this thread. No regrets so far this thing is gooood!

[Kalamata Kid]

Too bad Molekular is not included in the Komplete Standard.
That's the only one I am looking at to buy.

[swilow11]

impulsively bought Molekular because of this thread. No regrets so far this thing is gooood!

It's ridiculously good albeit CPU heavy and somewhat tedious to program. But unlike a lot of multi FX things, the individual FX sound pretty good. The reverb is not too versatile but it can actually do some decent stuff. But working with such a small interface is a bit of a drag so I find myself either layering other VST fx or using Infiltrator instead.

[HOTF]

impulsively bought Molekular because of this thread. No regrets so far this thing is gooood!

It's ridiculously good albeit CPU heavy and somewhat tedious to program. But unlike a lot of multi FX things, the individual FX sound pretty good. The reverb is not too versatile but it can actually do some decent stuff. But working with such a small interface is a bit of a drag so I find myself either layering other VST fx or using Infiltrator instead.

I feel your pain, Reaktor is probably one of the only plugin that dosent have a resizable window that I still use daily. It's just too good I can't let it go. Shame there is not enough interest in it to get NI to put ressources into it. :

[ccv394]

Ruina out of this free bundle is interesting for weird distortion.
https://noiseengineering.us/products/th ... eor-ruina/

[martiu]

i also like Molekular a lot, also Virta, both fiddly but you can get sounds never heard before depending on the source

[martiu]

lately i am experimenting with TONSTURM SPCTRL EQ (spectral EQ) and TONSTURM FRQ Shift (Fr shifter)
both are very good , i especially like the modulations you can have, envelope flowers, custom LFOs, you can add movement alien textures to your sounds

[HOTF]

I don't think it has been shout it out in this thread yet. Amalgame by Inear Display looks amazing :

[worldfever]

I don't think it has been shout it out in this thread yet. Amalgame by Inear Display looks amazing :

yeah amalgame is great! kinda inear displays "answer" to glitchmachines quadrant
did they revamp it? its been around for over 10 years at this point