Cytomic "The Scream" stomp box distortion plugin

[musikmachine]

Are you requiring beta testers Andy?

[xiphiuz]

I only care about ONE THING: How does it sound?*

*Well, and cpu usage of course

Frankly (and I've donated more than once) the TS-999 is very good and very versatile and it's free for cheapskates

I play guitar no less than 2 hours a day, so I'd use it all the time if cool. (particularly in front of s-gear, which with some dandy IR's, sounds as good as anything these days)

The Scream sounds gorgeous, and captures a lot more of the dynamic behaviour of the original circuit than any other plugin I've tried - I can switch between the The Scream and the hardware and can't tell them apart unless the input is something basic like a sine wave so I can make out the hiss of the hardware. It takes around 11% cpu of a single core on my 3.1GHz i7 laptop running at x2 oversampling of 44.1 kHz, the TS-999 takes around 6% cpu on x2 44.1kHz. You have to pay for the extra detail, but I think it's still a reasonable tradeoff to get things sounding bang on to the hardware.

If you don't want to fork out USD 29 for the extra tone, detail, and customisation options then please stick with the free TS-999, it still sounds good. Just don't push it too hard with the input levels otherwise it can break their DSP code and sound terrible!

Hi Andy,

Cool to hear that the release is imminent.
Soundwise: did you also compare it with the UAD version of it?

[xiphiuz]

Are you requiring beta testers Andy?

+1, would be very interested in thst. And glad tot help out.

[andy-cytomic]

Hi Andy,
Cool to hear that the release is imminent.
Soundwise: did you also compare it with the UAD version of it?

I don't have a UAD card, so I cannot test against one. If you have one it's easy enough to see if they "got it right" by processing a couple of sine waves and gaussian white noise wave, that tells pretty much all. Do you have a UAD card?

What the UAD won't do is give you customisation of the diode clipping diodes (ASYM), and adjusting the high pass cutoff in the drive section (FAT) and removing the low pass post drive section (BRIGHT), and voltage starving to extra clipping, and bias adjust to clip one side before the other, all of which make the basic circuit very versatile.

[andy-cytomic]

Are you requiring beta testers Andy?

+1, would be very interested in thst. And glad tot help out.

The initial release will be a public beta and there will be a trial version which won't save any settings and you won't be able to automate.

[xiphiuz]

Hi Andy,
Cool to hear that the release is imminent.
Soundwise: did you also compare it with the UAD version of it?

I don't have a UAD card, so I cannot test against one. If you have one it's easy enough to see if they "got it right" by processing a couple of sine waves and gaussian white noise wave, that tells pretty much all. Do you have a UAD card?

What the UAD won't do is give you customisation of the diode clipping diodes (ASYM), and adjusting the high pass cutoff in the drive section (FAT) and removing the low pass post drive section (BRIGHT), and voltage starving to extra clipping, and bias adjust to clip one side before the other, all of which make the basic circuit very versatile.

Yes I have. Thanks for the detailed description, I am looking forward to test these two alongside.

[xiphiuz]

Are you requiring beta testers Andy?

+1, would be very interested in thst. And glad tot help out.

The initial release will be a public beta and there will be a trial version which won't save any settings and you won't be able to automate.

Ok, great to hear, again, really looking forward to this!

[PurpleCatfishBettie]

can you have a feature to select from a list of diode types... schottky, germanium, zener, silicon... mix and match?

[andy-cytomic]

can you have a feature to select from a list of diode types... schottky, germanium, zener, silicon... mix and match?

Yes, that is included already

[kmonkey]

When?

[incubus]

Give it to me NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[andy-cytomic]

Yes I have. Thanks for the detailed description, I am looking forward to test these two alongside.

Also all Cytomic software allows you to adjust the oversampling used for realtime and render up to x64, so you can save cpu when previewing, but have the option for pristine quality for the final mix.

[andy-cytomic]

The gui is almost done, I need to add the edit panel when you click the MODS button:



What do people think about the controls down each side in the bottom half? Any other general feedback on how it's looking?

[whyterabbyt]

Any other general feedback on how it's looking?

Can we have a non-skeumorphic variant that doesnt waste quite as much screen real estate? You could fit those controls into the top half of that space without much difficulty at all.

[Chandlerhimself]

Looks really good to me. Personally I liked the dark green better than the black. With the black I don't think people will recognise it as a TS, but if it sounds good who cares. Everything else looks great.