KVR Audio

parma · Post by **parma** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 2:00 am

It's too bad there's no intro pricing. I thought Sugar Bytes has done intro prices in the past but maybe I'm misremembering.

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 2:33 am

Woah, the latency on this is insane. I guess it could be fun for production work, but if you think you're going to use it in a live situation, you've got another thing coming.

billinder33 · Post by **billinder33** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 2:45 am

Finally got around to watching the videos and sound examples. This thing is giving me a serious case of GAS. Not gonna bite tho. Not gonna ...

emasters · Post by **emasters** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 3:18 am

JRR Shop "group" discount code drops the price by $20.64. Closer to what one would have hoped for with an intro discount.

218 · Post by **218** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 12:38 pm

I have only had the chance to take it for a quick test run but luckily I got the entire weekend reserved for FSU mangling

What I already know now is: it sounds spectacular!!!

Everyone would always like a cheaper price on everything, myself included....but creating stellar work takes time, and Sugar Bytes creates stellar work, which is almost always way above the rest of the industry...and time is money. This is well worth the price

kraster · Post by **kraster** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 12:43 pm

The amount of options is crazy. Just when you think you've reached the end there's some other feature.

Like, as an example, when I had got to grips with the basics of the spectral/Resynthesis engines (Or thought I had) I went to the effects section thinking they were there just to add a little flavour but no... even the reverb has a freeze function that can be repitched to a scale.

Everywhere you look there's always some way to mangle the sound in some way.

This is probably Sugarbytes most comprehensive plugin to date. It's really deep but they did a phenomenal job with the UI. Everything is very clearly laid out. There is a learning curve on some of the specifics due the sheer amount of options on offer but in use they've really gone out of their way to make it very accessible

Electrohead · Post by **Electrohead** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 1:06 pm

Dang……. that looks great. But shite…. I have blew through all the funds that the wife does not know about.

Ah_Dziz · Post by **Ah_Dziz** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 1:27 pm

Bought that.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 1:29 pm

Does it have a lot of latency?

c_voltage · Post by **c_voltage** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 2:20 pm

Featurewise seems will be mustgrab. Despite boring UI lol. Seems times of visual piece of art for SB plug' UI's is gone. But ok, all that lyric.

Funky40 · Post by **Funky40** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 2:30 pm

zerocrossing wrote: Fri Nov 21, 2025 2:33 am Woah, the latency on this is insane. I guess it could be fun for production work, but if you think you're going to use it in a live situation, you've got another thing coming.

what does "live situation" mean here ?
i thought it is for sample mangling only, no live signal input ?
I personally have "there" not too big a problem with latencys. Even up to 200ms.

Qs:
- does it has settings for FFT based band count ?
- does it has settings for oversampling ?

spent my budget already. Not going to demo it right now

kraster · Post by **kraster** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 3:03 pm

Funky40 wrote: Fri Nov 21, 2025 2:30 pm
zerocrossing wrote: Fri Nov 21, 2025 2:33 am Woah, the latency on this is insane. I guess it could be fun for production work, but if you think you're going to use it in a live situation, you've got another thing coming.
what does "live situation" mean here ?
i thought it is for sample mangling only, no live signal input ?
I personally have "there" not too big a problem with latencys. Even up to 200ms.

Qs:
- does it has settings for FFT based band count ?
- does it has settings for oversampling ?

spent my budget already. Not going to demo it right now

I'm getting 218ms latency at 48k in Live 12 on a Mac so definitely dodgy for real time.

But it IS an effect and not an instrument.

It has adjustable FFT resolution of 64 to 4096 bands.

The resynthesis engine has 120 oscillators.

No oversampling as far as I can see.

Ah_Dziz · Post by **Ah_Dziz** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 3:15 pm

The masking for all the spectral effects is stupendous. Lots of fun tricks that would take lots of time working in a modular DSP environment are easier to setup. I am massively impressed. I haven't seen a spectral effect this well done since spec ops came out.

Ah_Dziz · Post by **Ah_Dziz** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 3:19 pm

Funky40 wrote: Fri Nov 21, 2025 2:30 pm
zerocrossing wrote: Fri Nov 21, 2025 2:33 am Woah, the latency on this is insane. I guess it could be fun for production work, but if you think you're going to use it in a live situation, you've got another thing coming.
what does "live situation" mean here ?
i thought it is for sample mangling only, no live signal input ?
I personally have "there" not too big a problem with latencys. Even up to 200ms.

Qs:
- does it has settings for FFT based band count ?
- does it has settings for oversampling ?

spent my budget already. Not going to demo it right now

It's an effect. Operating on whatever audio you are pumping into it. There's no way to get rid of the latency introduced by fft/ifft. I've found that lots of these kinds of effects are still useable live even with the added latency. Running these things on a send to generate background textures and effects is a fun use.

kraster · Post by **kraster** » Fri Nov 21, 2025 5:49 pm

Ah_Dziz wrote: Fri Nov 21, 2025 3:15 pm The masking for all the spectral effects is stupendous. Lots of fun tricks that would take lots of time working in a modular DSP environment are easier to setup. I am massively impressed. I haven't seen a spectral effect this well done since spec ops came out.

One of the chef's kiss parts of the masking is that if you have one or more of the masking numbers activated and load a preset the preset will only be loaded into the unmasked sections.

Another fantastic feature is that you can use Envelope 1's shape as a mask.

The amount of detail they've poured into this plugin is nothing short of staggering.

Sugar Bytes TransFigure - new spectral fx (among other things)