Voxengo Varisaturator For Mac
Applications. Strong harmonic enhancer. Mix saturator. Track saturator. Drum bus compressor. Stereo, mid-side, 5.1 surround plugin VariSaturator is an audio effect AU and VST plugin designed to apply saturation effects to audio material.
VariSaturator can be used both to boost the loudness of the audio tracks without increasing their peak levels proportionally, and to apply subtle harmonic coloration that makes tracks sound more pronounced and polished. VariSaturator features two saturation modules which are applied in sequence, in two-band mode each. The tube/valve saturation module applies asymmetric valve processing that closely resembles sound of a high-quality valve amplifier cascade. Another saturation module VariSaturator features is a digital “waveshaping” saturator with feedback topology. This module applies smooth two-band saturation which can amplify signal level and apply desirable harmonic coloration.
If you have some “muffled” track in the mix that needs to cut through the mix better, VariSaturator will help you in this case easily. VariSaturator can be used in a variety of audio processing cases: you may apply it with good results over drum, bass and vocal tracks, over sub-mixes and of course over complete mixes.
Features & Compatibility. Two-band processing. Stereo and multi-channel processing. Mid/side processing. Preset manager. Contextual hint messages.
Crossover steepness switch. Internal channel routing. Up to 8x oversampling. Undo/redo history. All sample rates support. Tube/valve and digital saturation. Channel grouping.
64-bit floating point processing. Dell e4300 drivers windows 10. A/B comparisons. Zero processing latency Demo limitations Processing output is muted for a moment every 45 seconds. (Demo version is authorized with a product key, which is a text string - no challenge/response nor dongle required) Compatibility This audio plugin can be loaded into any audio host application that conforms to the AudioUnit or VST plugin specification.
RTAS compatibility is available by using the FXpansion VST-RTAS adapter. This plugin is compatible with Windows (32- and 64-bit Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and later versions) and Mac OS X (10.6 and later versions, 32- and 64-bit, Intel processor-based) computers (2 GHz dual-core or faster processor with at least 2 GB of system RAM required). A separate binary distribution file is available for each target computer platform for each audio plugin specification.
Hi Guys, I do all of my work 'in the box' on my powermac G5 running logic 8 and a couple of UAD 1's Im interested in a decent tape saturation plugin to give me a bit of warmth for my mixes and wondered what you would all suggest? I currently have the URS channel strip pro which ive been using but wondered if a dedicated plugin would be any better, such as the the DUY one? Any and all ideas will be greatly appreciated! Cheers, Chris Regular Posts: 235 Joined: Sat Feb 07, 2009 1:00 am Location: West Midlands, UK.
The one-off Mac AU version of the Massey tape saturation plug is a beauty - and it's free! I don't know if it's on the Massey site, but a search on Gearslutz will certainly turn it up - it was on one of their forums that he offered it up for public use. Got to say, Metric Halo's 'Character' plug-ins are very, very nice too. The tape saturation one always gets a smile on my face. Only problem is that it's only available with their 2d DSP card, so not an easy option to demo. But it's still nice.
PS - and if you're considering te Voxengo plug, then you owe it to yourself to try out Sonnex's 'Inflator' plug. Not strictly a tape saturation thing, but it does the same kind of thing (increase perceived volume without raising actual levels) as the Voxengo. And what do you know? - it's very nice too. Frequent Poster Posts: 656 Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 1:00 am. Reid wrote:The one-off Mac AU version of the Massey tape saturation plug is a beauty - and it's free! I don't know if it's on the Massey site, but a search on Gearslutz will certainly turn it up - it was on one of their forums that he offered it up for public use.
Got to say, Metric Halo's 'Character' plug-ins are very, very nice too. The tape saturation one always gets a smile on my face. Only problem is that it's only available with their 2d DSP card, so not an easy option to demo. But it's still nice. PS - and if you're considering te Voxengo plug, then you owe it to yourself to try out Sonnex's 'Inflator' plug.
Not strictly a tape saturation thing, but it does the same kind of thing (increase perceived volume without raising actual levels) as the Voxengo. And what do you know? - it's very nice too. Ineteresting, I ended up the the Varisaturator having tied the Massey Free plug and not got on with it at all! Anyway, it's horses for courses as they say. Frequent Poster Posts: 1540 Joined: Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:00 am Location: Buntingford, Herts. RegressiveRock wrote: I listened to the demos and thought it sounded rather good.
Thanks for mentioning. Alexei's stuff is really good! Also the mastering based ethic behind their design makes them incredibly versatile. I also just found the following by PSP - not strictly a tape sat plug but I think it might do the job, the following is from their website. 'PSP oldTimer is a vintage-style compressor designed for track and program compression and limiting. Our goal in developing this plug-in is to provide a simple compressor that offers an exceptionally musical sound while requiring a minimum of tweaking.
This plug-in is not based on any specific hardware, rather it is inspired by vintage circuits and is designed to emulate some favorite characteristics of such compressors. PSP oldTimer is so simple and so easy to use, that it's difficult to make it sound bad even at extreme settings! This compressor offers soft and smooth compression in most applications, however it may slightly color the sound with its tube emulation on transients when heavily driven internally by high Compression values.' Regular Posts: 235 Joined: Sat Feb 07, 2009 1:00 am Location: West Midlands, UK. RemoHead wrote:I also just found the following by PSP - not strictly a tape sat plug but I think it might do the job, the following is from their website. 'PSP oldTimer is a vintage-style compressor designed for track and program compression and limiting. Our goal in developing this plug-in is to provide a simple compressor that offers an exceptionally musical sound while requiring a minimum of tweaking.
Voxengo Varisaturator For Mac Mac
This plug-in is not based on any specific hardware, rather it is inspired by vintage circuits and is designed to emulate some favorite characteristics of such compressors. PSP oldTimer is so simple and so easy to use, that it's difficult to make it sound bad even at extreme settings! This compressor offers soft and smooth compression in most applications, however it may slightly color the sound with its tube emulation on transients when heavily driven internally by high Compression values.' PSP products are very well regarded. I guess your purchasing choice depends upon you are really looking for:- 1) Something which models the artifacts of an outboard compressor; or 2) Something which models the effects of tape saturation. Both Vintage Warmer and Old Timer are compressor modelling software and I am told they both do a pretty good job. I certainly liked the sound of Vintage Warmer when I tried a 30 day demo a long time ago, although perhaps not as well as my current choice of saturation product.
Otherwise, I probably would have bought it, as I have come to regard this aspect of refining a mix as crucial to getting a decent sound. There are some models and even hardware kit that attempt to model tape saturation, including the artifacts caused by the passage of the tape over the recording heads. Varisaturator takes a different path and says, I just want to give you nice 'clean' saturation. It makes no attempt to be either of the above. It gives you two saturation models: one which simulates valve saturation; and one which simulates digital distortion. Once you have decided how much you would like of each you can then blend the two forms of saturation together with the original signal. Both are designed to avoid unpleasant phase shifts and other unhelpful artifacts.
As such it doesn't claim to be either a tape simulator or a vintage kit simulation, just giving you some saturation sounds that can be very 'musical' in or across a mix. Added to a very well thought out routing matrix, it makes for a very flexible mix and mastering tool which I've found it useful on a huge variety of sources. However, you need to buy something that both fits your bill and floats your boat. The really good stuff can quite expensive both in plug form or hardware.
Voxengo Varisaturator For Mac
Outside of the maintenance draining route of recoding to tape, perhaps the zenith of this type of kit is the, which sounded truly gorgeous when I went to a demo day. As you will see from the price tag, it is possible to spend an absolute fortune on this one small, (but IMO very important), aspect of a mix. So how deep are your pockets?!?! Here's hoping you find what you are after. Reg Frequent Poster Posts: 1540 Joined: Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:00 am Location: Buntingford, Herts. If you're talking hardware the sky's the limit. The Portico is about £1,295.
The Fatso is about £2,100. SOS recently reviewed some new boutique thing that cost over £3,000. Since they all emulate what happens if you feed your signal through a 2-track tape recorder and back, it does sort of beg the question why not buy one of those instead, when there are seriously good used machines available second hand for a few hundred pounds. And you can also use them for tape delay etc as a bonus. Frequent Poster (Level2) Posts: 3266 Joined: Tue Jan 07, 2003 1:00 am. Steve Hill wrote: Since they all emulate what happens if you feed your signal through a 2-track tape recorder and back, it does sort of beg the question why not buy one of those instead, when there are seriously good used machines available second hand for a few hundred pounds. And you can also use them for tape delay etc as a bonus.
One thing I found with the ATS1 is that it is fabulous for, say drum-buss processing, or parallel compression style effects. In other words, you can use such devices as real-time processors in the mix, which you just can't do with a tape. Also, if you look at the Anamod unit, there are several specific tape-machine and tape-formulation models available. Which is great if choice of flavours is the sort of thing that floats your boat. They're also a lot more compact than a tape machine, maintenance is easier, and you don't end up with the responsibility of archiving and caring for a whole bunch of delicate master tapes.
But apart from that, I couldn't imagine why you'd want one Jedi Poster Posts: 4217 Joined: Wed Sep 03, 2003 12:00 am Location: Laputa. All contents copyright © SOS Publications Group and/or its licensors, 1985-2018. All rights reserved.
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