Any Spectral effects you know?

[dayjob]

IRCAM's FLUX Trax is pretty amazing as well, albeit expensive like everything IRCAM makes

On sale right now for $99 at Audio Deluxe and Best Service.
Still not cheap but more digestible than the full price.

this is not apple silicon ready ?......looks to me as it isn´t.
anybody knows ?

the ircam stuff is apple silicon native. been for a while. since the FLUX stuff was updated to apple silicon.. IRCAM happened at the same time.

and regarding 2C Audio Kaleidoscope - i found to to be a one trick pony. basically a CPU intensive and really complex way to make a variety of combfilter sounds.. also, if you're on a mac.. avoid it.. i doubt it will ever be updated to run on current OS or apple silicon systems. all the 2C Audio stuff is basically abandonware.

[Funky40]

IRCAM's FLUX Trax is pretty amazing as well, albeit expensive like everything IRCAM makes

On sale right now for $99 at Audio Deluxe and Best Service.
Still not cheap but more digestible than the full price.

this is not apple silicon ready ?......looks to me as it isn´t.
anybody knows ?

the ircam stuff is apple silicon native. been for a while. since the FLUX stuff was updated to apple silicon.. IRCAM happened at the same time.

okeey,...im playing with the Flux trax right now.
need to comment:

i have GREAT fun with it.
I do realtime play, jamming along stuff.
Latency was at around 200ms at first.
onboard oversampling does not change that.
But what i figured out, min-max frequenzy settings DO change the latency.
right now, i´m at 163ms. Can take it to around 400ms or so, or down to 100ms or so.
Nevertheless, thats a great plugin, even for realtime play.*
probably the best pitchshifter i have played with, .....in that sense that it fits "playing and jamming along with instruments" perfectly well !
i´m playing piano, can´t comment on anything other right now.
But its inperfections just suit the whole sound too. It´s a match !
Usually, if such thing suits Piano, it suits other instruments too.

* i mean, it´s a GREAT plugin.

Not talking production works.
thats talking performing ( which is ofcourse a funny thing with ~200 ms of Latency)


edit:
ok, its not completly artefact free. but thats my whole patch.
not sure where it´s coming from. (i´m fine with CPU load)

[c_voltage]

New spectral FX Lese Smear
https://lese.io/plugin/smear/

[thecontrolcentre]

SpecOps

[pekbro]

New spectral FX Lese Smear
https://lese.io/plugin/smear/

I got the email about this as well, another plugin that I've got to pick up at some point. (sigh)
Tho it's good too, since I had pretty much run out of lese plugins to buy.

[c_voltage]

New spectral FX Lese Smear
https://lese.io/plugin/smear/

I got the email about this as well, another plugin that I've got to pick up at some point. (sigh)
Tho it's good too, since I had pretty much run out of lese plugins to buy.

I had time to try demo already, and frankly has mixed feelings.
From the one side - such amount of algo's (12), wow. That seems must have.
But, at practice, by, so to speak exhaust, idk, not sure.
It's all somehow not enoughly "pronounced" (by sound), I don't know how best to explain it.
And curiously, had similar experience about the author's other plugs too. (Exactly in terms of sound.)
But I really love the look\UI of his plugs; it's a real trap lol. And cooling downs after trying demo, unfortunately.
The only thing, i liked his granular (Glow), pretty good work \ result abilities.
And another his plug is good its freeware Codec.
All of this is, of course, very subjective (and the author, by the way, seemed to me to be a good person, communicative). But nevertheless.

[pekbro]

New spectral FX Lese Smear
https://lese.io/plugin/smear/

I got the email about this as well, another plugin that I've got to pick up at some point. (sigh)
Tho it's good too, since I had pretty much run out of lese plugins to buy.

I had time to try demo already, and frankly has mixed feelings.
From the one side - such amount of algo's (12), wow. That seems must have.
But, at practice, by, so to speak exhaust, idk, not sure.
It's all somehow not enoughly "pronounced" (by sound), I don't know how best to explain it.
And curiously, had similar experience about the author's other plugs too. (Exactly in terms of sound.)
But I really love the look\UI of his plugs; it's a real trap lol. And cooling downs after trying demo, unfortunately.
The only thing, i liked his granular (Glow), pretty good work \ result abilities.
And another his plug is good its freeware Codec.
All of this is, of course, very subjective (and the author, by the way, seemed to me to be a good person, communicative). But nevertheless.

Yeah, I get it, I don't have everything he makes, the reverb construction stuff doesn't really
interest me. I love the rest, though tbh, it can be difficult to use them effectively at times.

Anyway, the trick with lese is to wait for them to be on sale for a stupid amount at PiB.

[Ah_Dziz]

GRM tools Evolve plugins. Most others have been mentioned.

The most fun stuff is not readily innplugon form. Max/MSP and Pure Data (also supercollider, c sound and the CDP) have some bonkers stuff as well as the ability to make anything you can think of.

[kraster]

New spectral FX Lese Smear
https://lese.io/plugin/smear/

I got the email about this as well, another plugin that I've got to pick up at some point. (sigh)
Tho it's good too, since I had pretty much run out of lese plugins to buy.

I had time to try demo already, and frankly has mixed feelings.
From the one side - such amount of algo's (12), wow. That seems must have.
But, at practice, by, so to speak exhaust, idk, not sure.
It's all somehow not enoughly "pronounced" (by sound), I don't know how best to explain it.
And curiously, had similar experience about the author's other plugs too. (Exactly in terms of sound.)
But I really love the look\UI of his plugs; it's a real trap lol. And cooling downs after trying demo, unfortunately.
The only thing, i liked his granular (Glow), pretty good work \ result abilities.
And another his plug is good its freeware Codec.
All of this is, of course, very subjective (and the author, by the way, seemed to me to be a good person, communicative). But nevertheless.

I kind of feel the same way. I tend to like the idea and presentation of the plugins more than the results. They are by no means bad but I'm always slightly underwhelmed by them.

[sandandpaint]

New spectral FX Lese Smear
https://lese.io/plugin/smear/

I got the email about this as well, another plugin that I've got to pick up at some point. (sigh)
Tho it's good too, since I had pretty much run out of lese plugins to buy.

I had time to try demo already, and frankly has mixed feelings.
From the one side - such amount of algo's (12), wow. That seems must have.
But, at practice, by, so to speak exhaust, idk, not sure.
It's all somehow not enoughly "pronounced" (by sound), I don't know how best to explain it.
And curiously, had similar experience about the author's other plugs too. (Exactly in terms of sound.)
But I really love the look\UI of his plugs; it's a real trap lol. And cooling downs after trying demo, unfortunately.
The only thing, i liked his granular (Glow), pretty good work \ result abilities.
And another his plug is good its freeware Codec.
All of this is, of course, very subjective (and the author, by the way, seemed to me to be a good person, communicative). But nevertheless.

Yeah, I get it, I don't have everything he makes, the reverb construction stuff doesn't really
interest me. I love the rest, though tbh, it can be difficult to use them effectively at times.

Anyway, the trick with lese is to wait for them to be on sale for a stupid amount at PiB.

The Smear demo video was not all that inspiring but I will demo it myself. Another one of his plugins I like is Recurse

[c_voltage]

I kind of feel the same way. I tend to like the idea and presentation of the plugins more than the results. They are by no means bad but I'm always slightly underwhelmed by them.

Oh ok, good to know that it's not only for me (for avoid myself feeling as if i was being picky lol)

[kraster]

I caved and bought this and am glad I did.

The videos don't really do it justice.

It's probably the most musical spectral effect I've come across.

The real fun comes from combining the different effects together. You can have five of them in series leading to all kinds od weird and wonderful results.

I have a few other spectral effects but I've always found that they lean towards audio destruction. Smear is a lot more tame.

It can get nasty if you want it to but it's definitely easier to get more musical results than say something like Specops.

[c_voltage]

@kraster Hm, curiously.
No, i was guided by trying demoversion too, if so.
As well, perhaps for my side was affects availability of many other spectral stuff (even besides mention Specops and GRM stuff - which really top). So perhaps i couldn't catch anything more new (or rather, something better done).
But, in theory i can agree that layering approach (which offer Smear) can be deal. And i did not had attempt to digg in this direction, being sure that just algos' checking will be enough.
Need second spin mb.

Upd
I forgot to say - else factor is the question of "musicality" (which surprised me in your mention, since lack of it was one of my complaints during checking). But it's probably just a difference in musical preferences lol.

[Puduku]

I also find it absolutely brilliant. And I think it's pretty musical too. You can use it to emphasize harmonics for example, and it does it with awesome quality, no weird spectral FFT gargling artifacts involved. Love this thing.

It's my third Lese purchase.

The demo limitation is absolutely awful btw lol.

[pekbro]

It's pretty neat, I probably won't wait too long to pick it up.

*Will be number 7 for me...