ToTapeDemo is the start of the ToTape lineage, a set of plugins that have kept on getting closer and closer to the sound of analog tape off a good reel to reel. It started out with four controls: Tape Slam, Treble Soften, Head Bump and Output Level. Quickly it became obvious that ‘tape slam’ was more […]
ESP was the precursor to BitGlitter. You can even see that it’s got ‘Bit Glitter’ on its only control. This was meant to be an Emu SP-1200, but it didn’t really manage to do that. However, it did manage to produce a legit sound of its own, in that general area. ESP bitcrushes and sample rate […]
ButterCompDemo was a technical experiment that turned out interestingly. The plugin itself ended up getting rolled into CStrip, with its users crossgraded to CStrip. Here’s how it worked. If you have one compressor, you adjust the overall volume of the sound according to how loud it is. This can produce odd harmonics depending on how it […]
Floor is all about bass guitar and kick drums—you can sculpt and tighten the lows in a very useful way, and/or throw in midrange impact. It works kind of like Density/Drive, but when used to control subsonics the wet channel suggests more lows. That’s by design: it’s one of the ‘simulate added bass’ plugins like MaxxBass […]
