KVR Audio

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 11:11 pm

I'm used to have per channel EQ in Orion Platinum, but now I'm also working with SONAR and there is no per-channel EQ (as far as I can see). I have VB-striptool Free and it does exactly what I want and it has a compressor to boot. However, it also has a strip fader, gain control, and it is quite big on the screen. Above that the knobs don't rotate very easy with the mouse.

So here's my question: is there another free effect that gives at least a semi-parametric EQ (low shelve, one or two parametric mid-bands, high shelve). Compression would be nice to have but not specifically needed.

I recal having seen something like this but I can't remember what it was. Probably commercial I think.

diverdee · Post by **diverdee** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 11:57 pm

Doesn't sonar have the ultrafunk sonitus eq included & integrated as a channel eq?

morelia · Post by **morelia** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:00 am

Not sure about these but possibly worth a look.

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1636.html
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1068.html (make your own ?)
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1965.html

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:54 am

diverdee wrote:Doesn't sonar have the ultrafunk sonitus eq included & integrated as a channel eq?

Maybe so, but I'm using SONAR LE

I'll get a 'full' SONAR at some point but for now my budget is drained. So I'm looking to work with what I have so far. VB-striptool does what I need but it is just not that handy to work with.

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:01 am

morelia wrote:Not sure about these but possibly worth a look.

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1636.html

That one was my first choice but the review posted for it says it's a little CPU-hungry so that cancels the idea to run 10 to 20 of them in a track.

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1068.html (make your own ?)

I have that one but it is just a chainer (although very handy), so not what I need. I can chain effects in the SONAR mixerstrips already.

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1965.html

Yep, that one might do the trick, but it is no longer available for download. I'll have to dig through my backup cdroms to see if I have it lying around somewhere, but I don't remember downloading it in the past.

So any other suggestions are welcome. I think any parametric EQ with 3-bands minimum will do the trick. I've already searched the KVR database but no luck so far.

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:03 pm

OK, I just solved one part of the problem with striptool: the knobs didn't rotate very easy, their movement seems neither circular or linear. However, I just foud out that you can click on a knob and it gets a little red dot to show it's selected and then you can move it very precisely with your mouse-wheel. This is quite great

Also, playing around with it a bit more it is both very light on CPU and very transparent sounding. So I actually think it's hard to beat

I do remember there was another dedicated channel plugin being developed, I think it was commercial, but I can't remember what it was and I searched the KVR database for that one as well but didn't find it.

elv · Post by **elv** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:10 pm

crimsonwarlock wrote:
morelia wrote:
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1965.html
Yep, that one might do the trick, but it is no longer available for download. I'll have to dig through my backup cdroms to see if I have it lying around somewhere, but I don't remember downloading it in the past.

http://www.a0audio.com/a0historypack.zip

Links works fine

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:18 pm

elv wrote:http://www.a0audio.com/a0historypack.zip

Links works fine

Thanks, downloaded

I just didn't see a link on their website

diverdee · Post by **diverdee** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:21 pm

There was that niagaragain channel tool, but the last I heard that was still a demo/beta stage (twas a while ago) & the eq section wasn't fully functional.
A prodyon product I think?

SJ_Digriz · Post by **SJ_Digriz** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:10 am

you will be hard pressed to find a channel strip as good as the VB one. Heck, he wrote that ages ago and it is still as good as it gets. Very unfortuate for us that he doesn't keep up with the VST world.

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:19 pm

SJ_Digriz wrote:you will be hard pressed to find a channel strip as good as the VB one. Heck, he wrote that ages ago and it is still as good as it gets.

I completely agree. As I said, it is very clean sounding AND light on the CPU. As I found out the mousewheel trick I will stick with it untill something better comes around but indeed I'm not holding my breath for that

scuzzphut · Post by **scuzzphut** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:26 am

I emailed Vincent Burel a while ago about the striptool series. Got no response

unfortunate indeed.

Vincent Burel · Post by **Vincent Burel** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:00 am

scuzzphut wrote:I emailed Vincent Burel a while ago about the striptool series. Got no response
unfortunate indeed.

strange, i usually reply to every question.
Never mind, let me know what is your question ?

Regards
Vincent Burel

crimsonwarlock · Post by **crimsonwarlock** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:08 pm

Vincent Burel wrote:
scuzzphut wrote:I emailed Vincent Burel a while ago about the striptool series. Got no response
unfortunate indeed.
strange, i usually reply to every question.
Never mind, let me know what is your question ?

Regards
Vincent Burel

Wow, Vincent you are HERE

Do you have plans to update the striptool series? Seeing that there are now so many hosts that lack good channel EQ and given the luxury to have a dedicated (low CPU) compressor on each channel I think many people (including me) would be interested in this

Are the original striptool versions still available for purchase ?

jens · Post by **jens** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:46 pm

crimsonwarlock wrote:Above that the knobs don't rotate very easy with the mouse.

I've never seen any other plugin with as much control over the knob-behaviour as the VB-Striptool offers - right-click a knob for the various options...

Anything else like VB-striptool (free) ?