LogicalDemo was one of the plugins from the Character collection, but it was never included with them because (like Elation) it had special behavior, namely compression. From the word go, Logical was setting out to be a 2-buss compressor. Controls were similar to the Character plugs, including a Personality control which handled the application of a […]
Flutter includes mono and stereo versions. It’s a great-sounding tape flutter effect that can be fairly intense, but there’s a problem: because of the design of the algorithm, I never got this version to have correct delay compensation. It does declare tons of latency, but it can’t lock on to the correct delay. It declares a […]
StereoFXDemo was my take on a stereo widener in 2007. It has several tricks worth noting. The Stereo Wide control doesn’t simply amplify the side channel, it distorts it. It applies a transform designed to bring sound energy forward in space, so boosting it will produce a hyped, wideness effect. The current-plugin equivalent is Wider, which […]
Bite is a precursor to Cojones. Here’s how it works. It works out what the average sample would be, between two points (if you smoothed off the sound completely and there were no transients in there). Then, it checks what actually IS there (not with the sophistication of Cojones, it’s just pretending the ‘smooth’ value would […]
