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Olitanh has an average user rating of 3.67 from 3 reviews

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Olitanh

Reviewed By Trader One [all]
January 8th, 2022
Version reviewed: 1.0.1 on Windows

Very good compressor, one of top sounding ones. I measured signal distortion and this is one of best ones I ever seen including commercial ones in $300 price class.

It has very extensive CPU usage. You need to freeze any track with this plugin otherwise its no fun. If freezing is not a problem for you then get it.

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Olitanh

Reviewed By Eine Alte Oma [all]
July 7th, 2021
Version reviewed: 1 on Windows

i would also say that adding autogain and additional gain knobs would make this plugin more comfortable to use. also i'd like to suggest adding a lookahead knob. it's not clear what some of the parameters do, like VU and Gap. I know you explain that in the description but idk, I just don't get it. Maybe it would be cool to see a demonstrational video with some common usecases for those parameters. Apart from that I think it's really great and a lot of fun. The plugin has a unique character defined by the perculiar signal flow between the distortion unit and the compressor as well as some of the internal processors' artefacts. it can be used for subtle settings but it shines when you take it more closer to the extremes (considering you lower the gain afterwards ofc).

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Olitanh

Reviewed By catatron [all]
July 4th, 2021
Version reviewed: 1.0.1 on Windows

A rather good sounding compressor, but there are a few issues.

1. No make-up or output gain. I don't think I have to elaborate on why this is a problem for a comrpressor.

2. Oversampling is a CPU hog. And I think I know why.
2a. x8 is an overkill for a compressor.
2b. Judging by what is written in the description, it needlessly upsamples Mid and Side signal, which turns x8 oversampling into x16 CPU usage for no reason, as Mid-Side can be converted from Left-Right and back with no data loss at any point. After upsampling, for example.

So yeah, would like to use it, but can't use oversampling as it eats 50% of my CPU power and have to use a separate gain plugin after (and before too actually) this one to properly gain-stage.

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JHEB
JHEB
3 August 2021 at 9:52am

Just wanted to ask something about Olitanh.

It seems like the compressor only works on the distorted signal. Is this how it is supposed to be?

I just think that the plug-in would be way more versatile if you could compress the signal without engaging any drive. The amount of driven signal you need to mix in for the compression to actually be audible is too much to be very useful. Otherwise, this seems like a very nice plug-in! If you could add the option to switch between only compressing the distorted signal and compressing the whole signal, this could probably be one of my favorites of the KVR Developer Challenge -21.

/Jon.

John Crosby VT
John Crosby VT
23 August 2021 at 6:55am

Thanks for asking. Yes, Olitanh is foremost distortion effect, with added benefit of compressor. But there is very little waveshaping if you set Drive to 0db (unless input signal is very hot, above 0dbFS) and with Threshold at -18db the compressor should kick in before any distortion happens.

JHEB
JHEB
3 August 2021 at 9:58am

One more question: do the attack and release values correspond to ms or something else? It would be good to know for fast workflow.

/Jon.

John Crosby VT
John Crosby VT
23 August 2021 at 7:02am

Attack and Release curves are also program dependent, therefore values do not represent absolute time.

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