Orion Ring Modulator

Orion Ring Modulator is a 64-bit VST for Windows stereo ring modulator. Each channel can have independent settings.

Makes any other synth, piano, human voice, percussion, guitar, or any audio sound crazy, wild, bell like, dream like, like an Exoplanet Geologist broadcasting from near the blue supergiant Rigel over a broken shortwave radio, or any odd thing you can dream up on your own.

32 weird presets. User configurable. VST ID: ORRM.

Photos of Orion on GUI by the VST's creator: Michael W. Dean of BipTunia Synths.

Street date v1.1: March 24, 2023.

Presets:

• Musical:
  • MType Red Supergiant.
  • New Rotating Star.
  • Rigel Fusing Elements.
  • Bortle 1 Sky.
  • Hold My Sword.
  • Pulsar In Flux.
  • Barnard's Loop.
  • Night Under The Stars.
  • Running Man Nebula.
  • Mutawah Wisc.
  • State of Georgia Vs.
  • Messier 45.
  • 45 Degrees North.
  • Sit Your Tar.
  • Mister Bendix.
  • British Lifecoaching.
  • Sine My Triangle.
  • ATOL Protected.
  • You Inverse Squares.
  • Central Finite Curve.
  • Harfluttermonic.
  • Outer Finite Curve.
  • This is Outrageous.
  • Rick and Mort Piano.
  • Seven Sisters.
• Odd:
  • West of Monoceros.
  • Stable Oscillation.
  • Event Horizon Ringing.
• Ugly:
  • Broken Piano.
  • Stellar Nursery.
  • Betelgeuse Adjacent.
• Very Ugly:
  • Ouch My Teeth.

What The Sliders Mean

Each channel duplicates the same controls. Left side of interface is left channel, right side is right channel.

Some sliders may have more effect when other sliders are engaged, in sometimes unexpected and exciting ways. And louder inputs may have different effects than quieter ones. Some thresholds will be found to engage only with inputs of certain frequencies. Experiment. But I'd recommend you start with the presets.

It's recommended that you put a bit of compression in your signal path after this VST. Here's an example in Reaper, I'm running the virtual synth Fluctus, then EQ, then Dimension Reverb, then Orion Ring Modulator, then a compressor, then light auto pan. Compression helps, all Ring Mods increase dynamics:

• WAVE is the Control Frequency waveform type. Sine and Triangle usually sound the most musical, but they all have their charms, especially Pulse.
• PULSE PURITY is a filter that only works when Pulse wavelength is used.
• LO and HI enable control that prevents runaway feedback. They don't usually need to be changed, but you can change them if you want (sometimes very loud) feedback.
• DRY / WET is the ratio of dry to affected signal. Bottom is all dry, top is all wet.
• CONTROL FREQUENCY controls the HZ of the control frequency. It's often the most important setting.
• OSCILLOSCOPES: Top ones show Control Frequency. Bottom ones show output.
• REZ: Controls the resonance on an SV filter (State Variable) connected to a Clipper connected to the Ring Modulator.
• %%%: Controls the amount of voltage going to the second input on the Ring Modulator. It's wired and displays backwards (10 at bottom, 0 at top), because of course it is, and of course it does.
• MOO1: Controls a Moog-type filer connected to the pitch input of the Control Frequency oscillator.
• MOO2: Controls an inverter connected to a rectifier connected to a Moog-type filer connected to the input of the Ring Modulator.
• WHA?: Controls the Pitch setting on an SV (State Variable) filter connected to a Clipper connected to the Ring Modulator.

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