Xfer OTT - alternatives?

[Ploki]

No...
Every Multiband compressor would need to have both available at the same time on each band... downward and upward compression... and that´s very rare...

It´s called OTT for a special reason: The signal gets pushed down and up at the same time...

If i recall correctly OTT is serial - so not "at the same time"
It's get pushed up below the threshold and up when over the threshold.

[inkwarp]

Is AudioDamage Roughrider similar to OTT?

[Ploki]

no, not in the slightest.

Audio Damage is simply a very aggro compressor.

OTT is Multiband, but the key component to its sound is upwards compression

[Danilo Villanova]

What about effects that are NOT doing the same thing but have a similar way of bringing a track to life? Like an exciter on steroids?

[SamDi]

Each Multiband-Compressor with upward-compression should be able to deliver similar results, e.g. Fabfilter Pro-MB, DMG Audio Multiplicity or Melda MDynamicsMB. But of course you have more detailed control, what means you have to find the „sweet spot“ then.

No...
Every Multiband compressor would need to have both available at the same time on each band... downward and upward compression... and that´s very rare...

It´s called OTT for a special reason: The signal gets pushed down and up at the same time...

Oh yes I forgot. You are partly right.
1.) Melda MDynamicsMB has to processors per band, thus you should be able to set upward and downward compression at the same time.
2.) DMG Multiplicity, you can set a „ratio below“ value, so you have different ratios for above and below threshold values. But yes, you have just one threshold so it‘s not the same.
3.) For Fabfilter Pro-MB it is not possible. Maybe you can trick it by putting two instances in a chain, one for upward and one for downward compression, but usage might get very messy then.

[Biome_Digital]

Why not just use OTT? If you want to have the same thing with a different name, you could try re-naming it in your DAW.

Was looking for something with resizable gui :/

That is a valid reason

[Biome_Digital]

Each Multiband-Compressor with upward-compression should be able to deliver similar results, e.g. Fabfilter Pro-MB, DMG Audio Multiplicity or Melda MDynamicsMB. But of course you have more detailed control, what means you have to find the „sweet spot“ then.

No...
Every Multiband compressor would need to have both available at the same time on each band... downward and upward compression... and that´s very rare...

It´s called OTT for a special reason: The signal gets pushed down and up at the same time...

Exactly, the fabfilter MB does do the same thing as OTT.

[Ploki]

Each Multiband-Compressor with upward-compression should be able to deliver similar results, e.g. Fabfilter Pro-MB, DMG Audio Multiplicity or Melda MDynamicsMB. But of course you have more detailed control, what means you have to find the „sweet spot“ then.

No...
Every Multiband compressor would need to have both available at the same time on each band... downward and upward compression... and that´s very rare...

It´s called OTT for a special reason: The signal gets pushed down and up at the same time...

Exactly, the fabfilter MB does do the same thing as OTT.

If you would put two pro-MB in series with linked bands and thresholds.
but even then due to limited range the transfer curve of pro-mb is not typically upward (you can’t force it to bring out noise to the point of way past reasonable.)

[onerob]

There's WA Production's The King 2, which is like a five band OTT (wait for a sale – should be able to get it for a few $/£/€).

https://www.waproduction.com/plugins/view/the-king

Also, now that Toneboosters v3 plugins have been made available for free, you could use TB FlX, which really will do upward and downward compression at the same time, and expansion.

https://www.toneboosters.com/support.html (expand the last question to see the download links)

Unfortunately, these are not resizeable.

Melda Production's MDynamicsMB, which is resizeable, will do everything but you've lost the immediate simplicity of OTT.

https://www.meldaproduction.com/MDynamicsMB

[Ploki]

There's WA Production's The King 2, which is like a five band OTT (wait for a sale – should be able to get it for a few $/£/€).

https://www.waproduction.com/plugins/view/the-king

https://www.waproduction.com/plugins/view/xtt-by-vinai



how many otts do they need.

btw i tried XTT and it's not really OTT. It kinda sucks

[onerob]

I tried XTT as well. It's like The King with added attack and release time control, but that interface just isn't good enough, imo.

[Smapti]

Slate MO-TT is a solid expansion of the OTT concept.

[Ploki]

yep.
If only it were M1 native, machine activation and 49$

so close tho

[Debutante]

https://www.hornetplugins.com/plugins/h ... s-control/

The same-ish thing with attack/release and saturation. I suggest you watch their info video on it to get your head around the display in particular. it's not what it looks like in traditional compressor/waveshaper displays.

https://youtu.be/pC9jg6vTncI

[Lbdunequest]

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