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shalala · Post by **shalala** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 3:51 pm

Sonalksis has released new Filter Plugin

http://www.sonalksis.com/index.php?section_id=102

steffensen · Post by **steffensen** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 3:54 pm

Muff Wiggler · Post by **Muff Wiggler** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 3:57 pm

i don't think i like the idea of not having control over resonance.

i know the plugin 'does it for me', but what if I want more than the plugin determines I need? i hate to be a downer, but it's seems to me like a 'less functional filter at a higher price' - kinda like a beginner's filter, where you don't have to worry about adjusting resonance?

i guess if you want to go from whistling hi-resonance to wider band low resonance, this isn't the plug for you? unless i'm missing something really basic about this idea?

steffensen · Post by **steffensen** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:05 pm

guess u dont know much about selfoscillating then?

Muff Wiggler · Post by **Muff Wiggler** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:11 pm

sure but i don't see how that relates... does this plugin auto-adjust resonance to ensure constant self-oscillation? i can't imagine that being the case - would make for a pretty useless filter, no? just use a sinewave generator if that's what you want

:still confused:

steffensen · Post by **steffensen** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:12 pm

sorry, i just cant bother explaining this. perhaps anyone else can chip in?

ollybfocusritenovation · Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:13 pm

why don't you just downlaod it and have a listen?

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:15 pm

Yes, somebody please demo it and give us some feedback, I'm at work right now and can't, but tomorrow I will definitely get on it.

Muff Wiggler · Post by **Muff Wiggler** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:17 pm

yeah i'm at work now too

sorry you couldn't be bothered to explain steffensen, i guess it's not all that exciting afterall.

i'll take a pass for now and maybe at some point a bright spark will enlighten me to what the point is here

cheers

Ronny Pries · Post by **Ronny Pries** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:18 pm

hm, tried the demo and think the sound doesn't justify the price.

if i got it right, the resonance gets staticly attenuated around bottom and top according to the cutoff frequency knob. i couldn't spot any differences when using different input signals, i wonder what's the adaptive part about it.

if it wasn't sonalksis whose products i considered quite HQ i'd say it's just a nice marketing bubble wrapped around a rather simple idea for the sake of money making.

maybe i looked over something and didn't find the right button but this filter doesn't sound very special to me. no good first impression at all...

my 2 cent,
ronny

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:37 pm

It's got a nice big knob though

Muff Wiggler · Post by **Muff Wiggler** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:39 pm

so do i

Alex@ProgressAudio · Post by **Alex@ProgressAudio** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:50 pm

haven't tried this yet but on the screenshot on the right there's a switch labelled 'Reso'

I'm guessing that's a resonance control then..

Johnny Cherry · Post by **Johnny Cherry** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:51 pm

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:55 pm

I just tested t out. It's a nicesounding filter, I especially like the result with the 48db slope. With the 4 resonance model settings (low/mid/high/rude), you actually have a resonable amount of control over the resonance.

But I don't get it. Adaptive psycho-acoustic models or not, it ultimately just becomes another filter in your pack, and I don't know if it is so stupendously stupendous to warrant $200US.

I already have pretty good precision filters in the PLParEQ 3-band, so I wouldn't need it for that purpose. Maybe somebody will come along to explain its value.

Sonalksis TBK