Use NR8 for the highest quality emulation. Hysteresis is at the bottom of the plugin and changes the overall timbre and quality of the effect. Tape bias, saturation, and drive are in the second window – use these to control the dynamics of your signal, and to add some harmonic distortion. The filter section affects the internal side chain of the plugin, so you can alter what frequencies are and aren’t affected. In the left-hand window, is the input gain, mix, and output gain. The Chow Tape Model is a lot more complex than our previous example. Pay particular attention to how the flutter and wow functions differ sonically, as well as how the IR shifts the frequency response.įor more plugins like these two, check out this video:Ĭhow Tape Model by ChowDSP Chow Tape Model is a complex and well designed tape emulation plugin. Let’s listen to both of the plugins back to back. Lastly, oversampling has been added to reduce aliasing distortion and to create more accurate quantization. It cuts out a little more of the high end and some of the high-mid frequencies. The IR switch enables an impulse response section that changes the timbre of the overall signal by adding a subtle EQ curve. The newer version modulates it’s wow and flutter. The same can be said about the flutter function which now introduces mild modulation to the harmonics it creates. In other words, the modulation speeds up and slows down, making it sound a little more interesting than the previous version. Wow still modulates the frequency of the signal however, this modulation is now variable.
The saturation seems more or less the same, as does the low-pass filter, but the noise, wow and flutter functionals have made noticeable improvements.įirst, the noise used is now real sampled noise from a cassette deck, which adds a little bit of realism to the plugin. Tape Cassette 2 is very similar but with some notable improvements.
Notice the harmonic distortion that this plugin creates. Wow modulates the frequency of the fundamental and any generate harmonics, whereas flutter generates a harmonic, a sub-harmonic, and causes other mild shifts to the frequency response. Noise is the level of tape noise introduced into the signal. This doesn’t create a resonance filter or any other changes to the audio. The lowpass filter introduces what looks like a 12dB per octave cut-off. The original cassette plugin has a simpler design, and less functionality. The original tape cassette plugin has a saturation dial, which introduces both even and odd ordered harmonics. Tape Cassette & Tape Cassette 2 by Caelum Audio Tape Cassette 2 emulates the timbre and distortion of a cassette deck.Ĭaelum Audio has come out with 2 iterations of their tape cassette plugin – both of which offer unique saturation and emulated tape artifacts. We have tried to make Aalto a deep instrument that will reward lasting engagement.We’ll master it for you and send you a free sample to review. And for those just getting into synthesis, Aalto is an accurate and honest tool for learning. We hope our approach will appeal to experienced sound designers who have their own favorite EQs and limiters. Aalto’s sounds are not hyped or compressed, they are wide-range, open and natural. Subjectively speaking, Aalto can make a wide range of sounds, from lush to edgy, including some very complicated ones, without sounding too thick in a mix. Because it has such short and controllable delay times, unlike a typical analog delay, it can be used as an additional oscillator.Īalto’s filter is a state-variable topology with mixable simultaneous outputs, a more resonant take on the Oberheim SEM filter. You can turn the vactrol response down to instantaneous, or up to a pronounced ring.įollowing the lowpass gate is a patchable waveguide / delay module with a waveshaper and a peaking EQ built into the feedback loop. The vactrol equation slows down the response to incoming control signals through a complex nonlinear filter. This topology makes it easy to build complex, evolving textures.Įach voice also includes a lowpass gate module with a vactrol emulation in the control path. Each voice has a separate, built-in sequencer with a patchable, independently controllable rate and offset. These sounds are uniquely malleable and alive, in part because they are made with dynamic calculation, not static wavetables.Īalto is designed as much for sequencing patterns as for playing individual notes. The heart of Aalto is a complex oscillator inspired by Don Buchla's designs, with FM, timbre and waveshape controls that enable a wide range of expressive sounds. Aalto’s sound engine lets you create sounds that have been difficult or impossible to make with softsynths before now.
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