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Soundtoys 5 review11/30/2022 Turn minimal guitar lines into shimmering, symphonic textures. Based upon a famous algorithm from the legendary Eventide H3000, this effect has been used on countless records to transform simple chords into epic soundscapes. The pitch-shifting, granular reverse echo of Crystallizer will transform your instruments into another dimension of sound. With warm saturation drive and dry/wet mix control, this simple plugin can produce a range of inspiring effects. Lock a vocal to a single pitch in robot mode or send in a midi signal to play in your own melodies. Pitch audio live +/- 1 octave, change the formant to make gender-warping sounds. Little AlterBoy does exactly what is says, it can make you sound like an alter boy with it’s pitch and formant processing. Little EchoBoy is a scaled down version-but still packing the features. There are many more features, well worth exploring in the demo version. One click on the browser brings up a box with usable presets grouped into useful categories-like Vocal, Drums, Reverbs & Sound Design. With an emulation of CE-1 chorus, the rhythm echo feature and diffusion settings, this unit can also masquerade as a chorus, reverb, non-lin reverb and vibrato plugin.Īs with all the plugins, the preset menus are a pleasure to use. For example, run a guitar through the ‘Studio Tape’ in this way and hey presto…we have a tape machine emulator! My producer friend told me a great tip, set the mix all the way to wet, turn feedback off and time to 0 and you can then use the different sonic models to change the flavour of your audio signal. Timing is easy to dial in with buttons for time, note, dotted and triplet. With the feedback, low cut and high cut filters controls, you can tailor the delay tails from a subtle echo to a crazy feedback dub effect. This is very handy as the original Space Echo couldn’t do a ping-pong delay. In delay mode, you can have a mono, dual or ping-pong delay and rhythm echo. You can really hear the different sonic signatures of these classic machines. There is also the warm saturated ‘studio tape’ preset inspired by the Ampex ATR-102, half inch two track machine. For starters, classic echo-boxes including Echoplex, Space Echo, Memory Man, DM-2 and the TelRay oil can have been emulated and included. This is my favourite plugin in the SoundToys range. EchoBoyĮchoBoy is an echo-delay plugin but soooo much more. Let’s have a look at some of these beauties. Soundtoys 5 features all of Soundtoys plugins, covering a wide range of processor types. This is a hybrid design of ‘analog’ meets ‘digital DAW precision' all wrapped up in an intuitive and user friendly interface. Analyzing ‘gold standard’ units of classic pro-studio hardware, Soundtoys have been integrating the sonics and behaviour of these revered audio processors into their plugins with stunning results. Ken has taken an innovative and maverick approach to designing some very creative plugins for us lucky producers. Founder and designer Ken Bogdanowicz worked on the original Eventide Harmonizers back in the mid 80’s-creating the tools that producers and engineers have used to create the sound of many music genres. Soundtoys is a boutique software company that are designing some of the most exciting plugins on the market today. 21 feature laden and analog rich plugins designed by the geniuses who have shaped the sound of modern music, could this be the ultimate effects package?
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