New Free Chorus Plugin - Updated to 0.3.1 (12th July 2012)

[Breeze]

sorry to go ot just watched the vid again, is that an aussie product? that's got some of the sweetest sound i ever heard.

If this plugin chorus sounds that good (ps i LOVE simplicity) that's really really cool.

The man says it's from Finland in the video. I have to agree that it caught my ear too.

One of the tendencies in "homegrown" plugin design is often NOT to restrict algorithm behaviors to musical results. This is how you end up with really strange and un-musical sounding effects in the extreme ranges of some controls. On the other hand, that's also how you get really strange sounding un-musical effects

In contrast, the Electric Blue Chorus exemplifies an effect that pretty much sounds nice in any of its settings. It's a question of design philosophy.

@very angry mobster: thanks for very nice chorus! I feel the initial mix curve could be smoother, and the mod depth goes too far for my taste, but then again, re: above

[metalifuxx]

One of the tendencies in "homegrown" plugin design is often NOT to restrict algorithm behaviors to musical results. This is how you end up with really strange and un-musical sounding effects in the extreme ranges of some controls. On the other hand, that's also how you get really strange sounding un-musical effects

In contrast, the Electric Blue Chorus exemplifies an effect that pretty much sounds nice in any of its settings. It's a question of design philosophy.

That's what I am kind of saying. Give us a digital/rack type mode, where the parameters are not restricted so you can create wild unmusical heavily effected sounds, and then give us say like an analog/pedal mode, with less parameters maybe, or more restricted musical parameter ranges. I get frustrated sometimes when dialing up certain settings on some modulation effects, because sometimes there is a very fine line between mild/subtle and wild and heavily effected. Like with a chorus, there is usually that area of nice lush shimmer before it goes extremely vibey and pitch warbles into modulated alien noise. Like there is a very small parameter area on the rate/delay knob to get fine tuned mod effects, then the other 85% of the parameter knob range/area gets extreme very fast. Most pedals don't need presets. If you have used the pedal a few times, you usually know visually where the knob needs to be to get the desired sound you are after quickly. But you could also offer a mode that makes it fun for the sound design tweakers. Me personally, I am in the camp of a few simple controls that get a good musical sound very quickly.

I say if you want to create some new innovative effect plugins along the lines of the Classic series, try and add features like that if you can. Host sync and free sync is also good. These are just suggestions to make some awesome free plugins. Keep going with it!

[very angry mobster]

I've just uploaded a new version of Orange Chorus. The new version is 0.3.1. It fixes a couple issues.

Would not load into Mulab4. Stopped during VST scan. Forced to end a non-responsive program.

This should now be fixed in the current version.

[very angry mobster]

This plugin was sounding really good for the few seconds that it would not crash Live 7 on Windows XP sp3 (32bit). This happened when I would tweak the controls on the GUI. Live either just ended suddenly, or the 2nd time it would freeze with the audio still running, and this error message would pop up:

Thanks for reporting this metalifuxx. I wasn't able to reproduce the problem here. (It happened once.) Instead the new version will attempt to report these kind of errors. The error reports usually help fix these problems quite quickly. Is your DAW connected to the internet? Would you be able to give the new version a test run please?


Shannon

[Breeze]

That's what I am kind of saying. Give us a digital/rack type mode, where the parameters are not restricted so you can create wild unmusical heavily effected sounds, and then give us say like an analog/pedal mode, with less parameters maybe, or more restricted musical parameter ranges. I get frustrated sometimes when dialing up certain settings on some modulation effects, because sometimes there is a very fine line between mild/subtle and wild and heavily effected...

Actually you're making a very good case for the simultaneous availability of coarse and fine controls. The coarse control would give you the latitude to go where you want (musical or extremes), and the fine control would allow you the flexibility to subtly work within that window. I'm surprised more devs haven't done that. There could also be a "sweet spot" switch to limit the effect to perfectly musical behaviors.

I can't wait till we can all drop the $%#^$!! hardware paradigms!!

[VSTJuNkiE]

I'm considering creating a series of free effect plugins, partly inspired by the Kjaerhus Classic series.

In love already!! Pleeeeeeeaase do...

[LAGinz]

The 64 bit version crashes 64 bit Studio One Prof. The 32 bit version works ok in 32 bit Studio One Prof.

[Dean Aka Nekro]

Hopefully this chorus can do a nice watery vibey chorus effect

Do you have any examples of this or what can make these types of sounds?

I know this is not a chorus by description but man it does a lovely job of a 4 voice chorus, The 'Iron Ether Polytope' -

Edit: Better demo of what I mean here: (ISIS in a pedal and )
This one is like post rock in a box, 'Death By Audio Echo Dream' -

These two have been the two which have really impressed me and I am ultra anal about chorus/modulation boxes/rack units

Hope that helps some Shannon and also You are digging them both metalifuxx mate

Best to all as always

Dean

[D.H. Miltz]

I've just uploaded a new version of Orange Chorus. The new version is 0.3.1. It fixes a couple issues.

Would not load into Mulab4. Stopped during VST scan. Forced to end a non-responsive program.

This should now be fixed in the current version.

Can't speak to MuLab 4, but it scanned okay and works fine now with MuLab 3.6. I like it. Thanks.

Seems to work okay in Audacity too.

Still crashes ocenaudio, though this time there's no crash report or anything, the whole thing just disappears when I select Orange Chorus from the effects/vst menu.

[very angry mobster]

@Dean: I like the sound of the Ion Ether Polytope!

@D.H.Miltz: Thanks for testing in MuLab. I'll check out what's happening with ocenaudio.

[Dean Aka Nekro]

@Dean: I like the sound of the Ion Ether Polytope!

@D.H.Miltz: Thanks for testing in MuLab. I'll check out what's happening with ocenaudio.

Its lovely isn't it, Mike from prymaxe always shows off gear really well/not over the top in style which also helps alot. I'll probably end up buying one to be honest as I have not got a dedicated single stompbox chorus pedal.

Thanks for the plug-in also, Really looking forwards to giving it a try

All the best and cheers

Dean

[jpumphandle]

Just adding that vers. 0.3.1 now works OK in Mulab4.

Noting that it is fairly easy on CPU with all 4 voices going.

[Dean Aka Nekro]

sorry to go ot just watched the vid again, is that an aussie product? that's got some of the sweetest sound i ever heard.

If this plugin chorus sounds that good (ps i LOVE simplicity) that's really really cool.

I can explain that one for You Theo, burgerman66 is a fellow countryman of Your's, Whom has had his own pedal demo channel on youtube for along time, Pro Guitar Shop have had one doing the same along with selling for along time also. So they hooked up as burgerman66 always sounds alot different from Andy whom does most of the Pro Guitar Shop pedal demos, PGS are USA based. Mad Professor is based in finland, has been knocking out really good quality but rather overpriced stompboxes for ages, They really took of in 2009/early 2010

Multi-national confusion, Its easy to reach dude, Hope that clears that up for You as easily as possible, Also there are some "boutique" guitar pedal outfits from the land of aus but of the top of my head I can not recall any at the moment, I do know they do exist though FWIW

Dean

BTW: Checkout 'Gearmandude' on youtube also for great pedal demos, He sounds exactly like Jack Black and wears the slickist boots known to mankind Along with prymaxe, jetcitymusic - All really reliable sound quality wise on the tube, A somewhat rarity and very precious

[Dean Aka Nekro]

Im enjoying this chorus, Thanks and glad I gave it a try, The one FR which I can think of which would make it even more flexable (for example when used upon a bass heavy source signal) would be a variable HP filter for the Wet/Chorus signal so that the frequencies below the HP stay clean/unaffected. It should be just as useful on synth bass sounds as on electric bass guitar and also down-tuned electric guitar...etc. Apart from that one small FR if it is do-able and more importantly others agree along with Yourself Shannon it is a good one and is staying in my plug-ins folder.

Cheers and best to all as always

Dean

PS: Up for discussing/throwing out ideas for other modulation/delay/time based effects and whatever else might come up effects wise and also some form of all-in-one/one stop signal dirt type processor as someone suggested. It would be great, Something of a cross breeding of say Camel Audio's CMFuzz, De La Mancha's Dirtbox and AD's Kombinat DvDA for but one possible example. Peace

[Dean Aka Nekro]

Im enjoying this chorus, Thanks and glad I gave it a try, The one FR which I can think of which would make it even more flexable (for example when used upon a bass heavy source signal) would be a variable HP filter for the Wet/Chorus signal so that the frequencies below the HP stay clean/unaffected. It should be just as useful on synth bass sounds as on electric bass guitar and also down-tuned electric guitar...etc. Apart from that one small FR if it is do-able and more importantly others agree along with Yourself Shannon it is a good one and is staying in my plug-ins folder.

Cheers and best to all as always

Dean

PS: Up for discussing/throwing out ideas for other modulation/delay/time based effects and whatever else might come up effects wise and also some form of all-in-one/one stop signal dirt type processor as someone suggested. It would be great, Something of a cross breeding of say Camel Audio's CMFuzz, De La Mancha's Dirtbox and AD's Kombinat DvDA for but one possible example. Peace