Stereo image VST search.....

[shamann]

THis make me think of something. Is there a plug that will split frequencies into a multi out vst?

Tiny God's Tiny Splitter is a 3-band frequency splitter. Orion has a great built-in bandsplitter for effects (actually the thing I liked best about it when demo'ing).

[;-)]

Well. nice what modular hosts can do.
But it is actually quite inefficient. Because if you already have a lowpass and a highpass filter applied, you need only to substract those two results from the input to get the (remaining) bandpass. No neeed to insert an extra filter here. Would also make the result wrong to insert a different effect for the bandpass, because it has probably completely different slope and response.

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[Lunch Money]

Any Tracktion rack can have as many outputs as you want, so it then becomes whatever kind of multi-out VST you want. Take some trickery to do anything with it as a modular component, though, since you can't have a rack within a rack. BUT, you could have several instances of Tiny Splitter within a rack. <chuckle>

[Lunch Money]

Well. nice what modular hosts can do.
But it is actually quite inefficient. Because if you already have a lowpass and a highpass filter applied, you need only to substract those two results from the input to get the (remaining) bandpass. No neeed to insert an extra filter here. Would also make the result wrong to insert a different effect for the bandpass.

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Well, I never claimed it was efficient, and to be honest with you I'm a numpty about the technology itself and hadn't really thought it through. I only write the docs for BBA, I don't design the plug-ins. They don't keep me around because I can code anything, that's for sure. I was lucky to make a break-dancing ASCII stickman on my C-64 using the PRINT and 500 GOTO 10 commands. For my own compositions and creations, it doesn't really matter to me if I did it the absolute most efficient way, as long as I got the end result I was looking for. That's the joy of being a hobbyist musician and not a programmer. <laff>

Now that I know about the existence of Tiny Splitter, I would just use a tiny splitter and send the 3 results to their own Bugpasses. Or whatever. I don't really use multi-band stereo imaging anyhow. It sure produced some interesting artifacts, though, I tell you.

Greg

[;-)]

Was not an attack.
I merely wanted to advice to the potential problems, which could occur with such a vague connection. I guess it would affect the audio result probably in a wrong way. Especially it could heaviely demage the frequency image of the proceeded audio if you apply different filters in that way.

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[Lunch Money]

Oh, absolutely. It sounded garbage. Like I said, the artifacts were... interesting...! (just in case it's not clear, I'm talking about the Tracktion creation, not the BBA plug, which will surely not be garbage ).

Greg

[Space Boy]

Did you try 'Wider Boy Pro'?

Stereo widening with the option for a mono bass below the frequency cut-off of your choice.

[sinkmusic]

buzroom Stbox4 : stero narrower/xpandeur 4 independant bands, with lo cut & hi cut options...
IT also hav some kind of a magic phase corrlation feature.
just check it out ! (it is in the "old freeware bundle" on the website)

[Spectre]

Basically what I require it for is vinyl cutting, the engineer I use (like most) monos the input below 300, so in order to keep bass solid it seems wise to do this prior, to any synths Im using that may require it.

This thread turned out alot more interesting than I expected, thanks alot for all input so far, learning a fair bit from reading into these..

[sinkmusic]

spectre :
so, what you need is OtiumFX basslane. That tool is made for such a need. It will avoid phase inversion in the bass range.
But Buzroom Stbox4 could do the same.
Use a phase scope to see above/below wich frequencey it is needed.

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1086.html

[Blue Cat Audio]

You can also try Widening Parametr'EQ which will allow you to cut stereo on any frequency range, as well as enhance it.

See on http://software.bluecatonline.org for more details orthis article.

In your case you just need to activate one band (let's say low pass), set the cutoff frequency to 300 Hz and set the corresponding "Side" slider to -40 dB (should be enough). You can also boost the "Mid". You can apply this to any frequency range: select which bands you want mono and which ones you want stereo.

[Hunter]

Ah this is a good thread, I need something that will mono my bass thynths at the bottom but leave them fat and fun higher up... looking forward to the betabugs one!

[THK]

THis make me think of something. Is there a plug that will split frequencies into a multi out vst? would be cool in eXT, buzz, other modular hosts (all hosts really)! ...

Buzz already has such a multi-out-frequency-splitter-effect --> Fuzzpilz Multibandit

Also try Klanglab´s Multiband Stereofaker