SlewSonic
TL;DW: SlewSonic combines SlewOnly with ultrasonic filtering to solo brightness.
This plugin was a journey! The video isn’t even its final form. The idea was to find out whether SlewOnly aliases. Could you filter out ultrasonics and get a smoother SlewOnly?
The answer is ‘kinda’, but then things got out of hand…
SlewSonic lets you stack up as many as three instances of SlewOnly, each with ultrasonic filtering around them to resist aliasing. Except it’s not always ultrasonic, because now you can set it from 25k all the way down to 5k. When you do that, you get the smoothest, darkest SlewOnly ever!
But what even is SlewOnly? It’s a monitoring plugin, very simple, that shows only the extreme treble, and balances the levels in a calibrated way to help you mix. SlewOnly is in all versions of Airwindows Monitoring, alongside SubsOnly and PeakOnly. It’s there to show you stuff you wouldn’t hear off just the regular mix. So if you switch over to SlewOnly, it should still be a mix, still about the same volume, still about the same density.
The thing is, when you stack those up, the calibrated volume adjustment gets more and more extreme. So mega-boosts can create really LOUD super-treble. And this could be useful highlighting cymbals, whispers… anything where you want to solo those frequencies. The Bright control fades between the direct sound and one, two or three stages of SlewOnly, and the Mute control specifies the highest frequencies you keep, so it could fight aliasing even at lower sample rates.
I’m imagining this as a tool for dedicated hi-hat tracks, stuff like that. You should be able to get exactly what you want. Hope you like SlewSonic!
download 64 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Signed M1/Intel Mac AUs.dmg
download Signed M1/Intel Mac VSTs.dmg
download LinuxVSTs.zip
download LinuxARMVSTs.zip for the Pi
download Retro 32 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac AUs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac VSTs.zip
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All this is free and open source under the MIT license, brought to you by my Patreon.
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Thank you very much. It’s already working very well with my tambourine track.