Underrated REs + audio examples
- TritoneAddiction
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Some REs gets mentioned a lot in this forum and for good reason too. But sometimes you get your own favorites that hardly no one ever talks about.
So what's your underrated, not talked about REs that you love? Feel free to share audio examples of your tracks where you've used them.
One of them for me is CRAPRE 2. It's the april 1 joke plugin but I actually find it very usable. I love the warm but heavy distortion. It can really be awesome for heavy drums. It can also tame sharp and irritating sounds. The wobble effect adds some nice randomness too making the sound less sterile.
Here are a couple of examples where I've used CrapRe.
Bass drum and snare. Just a perfect match for the Snakebite synth which is what I've used for all synth sounds in this track.
I wrote this one when Crapre 2 came out. Every sound is processed through Crapre in some way. It's all there, distortion, hiss, pitch wobbles, feedback noise. Even the horrible spring reverb is used in the intro. It's the sound of the reverb switch when you turn it on
So what's your underrated, not talked about REs that you love? Feel free to share audio examples of your tracks where you've used them.
One of them for me is CRAPRE 2. It's the april 1 joke plugin but I actually find it very usable. I love the warm but heavy distortion. It can really be awesome for heavy drums. It can also tame sharp and irritating sounds. The wobble effect adds some nice randomness too making the sound less sterile.
Here are a couple of examples where I've used CrapRe.
Bass drum and snare. Just a perfect match for the Snakebite synth which is what I've used for all synth sounds in this track.
I wrote this one when Crapre 2 came out. Every sound is processed through Crapre in some way. It's all there, distortion, hiss, pitch wobbles, feedback noise. Even the horrible spring reverb is used in the intro. It's the sound of the reverb switch when you turn it on
I picked up the ST1 Speak And Tweak on a whim in some sale a while back and I absolutely love it. It won't be for everyone, but it's surprisingly versatile when coupled with some effects or thrown into a combinator, and is a great thing to bring into the mix when you are stalling or want to throw a curve ball. It's deeply unpredictable in terms of which words, phrases or syllables work and which don't, but if you treat it in a more abstract way and use the letters more as sounds it offers great possibilities. It's also worth remembering that many symbols can also be played/spoken. It's definitely one for the tweaker.
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- Carly(Poohbear)
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I think IDT devices as a whole are underrated, there are quite a few out there that are very useful, my fav IDT instrument has to be Kraft, nice, clean and clear interface, find it hard to make a bad sound from
Other devices I can't live without are the CV8x4, flowers, Skope, MoPol, CVA-7 and CV switch. Oh, another one that I using more and more is SPEM (and the day it gets Dynamic range display it will move into my number one spot for utilities).
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Other devices I can't live without are the CV8x4, flowers, Skope, MoPol, CVA-7 and CV switch. Oh, another one that I using more and more is SPEM (and the day it gets Dynamic range display it will move into my number one spot for utilities).
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(Electronic) 5 Steps (Video added) Updated
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Carly(Poohbear) wrote: ↑19 Nov 2017I think IDT devices as a whole are underrated, there are quite a few out there that are very useful, my fav IDT instrument has to be Kraft, nice, clean and clear interface, find it hard to make a bad sound from
Big fan of Kraft as well. Its probably my favourite IDT, the onboard effects are absolutely killer, really good for mangling sounds and getting creative. Another RE I love is Neutron, its an excellent RE for adding texture or underlying movement. I even use Neutron on drums just for those messy ghost notey vibes) . You won't notice Neutron at work until you bypass it. Also I love the patch randomiser in Vibro, and the masking feature which comes with the patch randomiser; although its lacking a reset patch button (so you have to keep undo-ing if you dont like the results from randomiser and want to go back to original sound).
Iridium Distortion synth is a favourite of mine. Same sort of balls-out berserk vibe as Snakebite, if less tweakable
In the FX department, Kitchen Sync is an early RE that nobody paid much attention to. It's a great sound mangler that hard syncs the input to an oscillator with envelope follower, filter, gate and LFO modulation. Not subtle but it's extremely cool for down & dirty type sounds. Also Renoun reverb, another early RE and a great reverb for unnatural signal molestation
Utilities: ReVolt CV processor. Versatile, well designed, excellent UI, sadly no longer available. I also like 4 Phase LFO for its scalable noise function, and all the devices from The Chronologists, I've given up hope of ever figuring them out properly, but for unpredictable CV fuckery they can't be beat, especially Later
In the FX department, Kitchen Sync is an early RE that nobody paid much attention to. It's a great sound mangler that hard syncs the input to an oscillator with envelope follower, filter, gate and LFO modulation. Not subtle but it's extremely cool for down & dirty type sounds. Also Renoun reverb, another early RE and a great reverb for unnatural signal molestation
Utilities: ReVolt CV processor. Versatile, well designed, excellent UI, sadly no longer available. I also like 4 Phase LFO for its scalable noise function, and all the devices from The Chronologists, I've given up hope of ever figuring them out properly, but for unpredictable CV fuckery they can't be beat, especially Later
I don't have a audio example but for RE, I like the DYNARAGE Tube Compressor. Not sure if it's "underrated" though.
There is a saturation VST that is 200 dollars At least the DYNARAGE has a compressor as well!
Which one? A saturation device for 200 bugs MUST be good
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- TritoneAddiction
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Tried it out because of your comment. It was on sale for 9 bucks and I thought it offered something different so I bought it. I Used it quite a bit in my track for the winter themed song challenge.
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Totally agreed.TritoneAddiction wrote: ↑19 Nov 2017I wrote this one when Crapre 2 came out. Every sound is processed through Crapre in some way. It's all there, distortion, hiss, pitch wobbles, feedback noise. Even the horrible spring reverb is used in the intro. It's the sound of the reverb switch when you turn it on
I use it an awful lot.
On the synth front. Oberon is definitely underappreciated. It might not be as meaty-sounding as the Blamsoft synths (which are also great but I wouldn't call them underrated, relatively speaking ) but the concept is great and it can do amazing sounds with a bit of prodding. In fact, I was just finishing the shop text for my soon-to-finally-be-released refill, which hopefully summarizes what's so cool about this synth:TritoneAddiction wrote: ↑19 Nov 2017Some REs gets mentioned a lot in this forum and for good reason too. But sometimes you get your own favorites that hardly no one ever talks about.
So what's your underrated, not talked about REs that you love? Feel free to share audio examples of your tracks where you've used them.
Zvork's Oberon is one of the most forward-thinking synthesizers available for the Reason rack. It's conception of additive synthesis is unique in that it straddles the boundary between harmony and dissonance, and allows the user to navigate freely between sonic order and chaos with only a few key controls. A simple turn of the knob may send you flying from the safe and sane musical universe you know straight into the gaping maws of Tiamat, and get you back again before the wretched beast can even start salivating! Indeed, equipped with this synth, one does just walk into Mordor - and out again, without so much as taking an arrow to the knee.
Now, easy as though this synthesizer may make it, many would deem it ill-advised to so freely invite the forces of entropy into any musical endeavour of repute. But because we're all life-long Cthulhu worshipers at Quixotic Sound Design anyway, we thought we'd give it a shot, and we've come up with a collection of patches which will awaken your musical imagination, even as it gleefully gnaws at your sanity...
It's funny you should mention the randomness making things less sterile. A lot of what makes Oberon special is that it includes a number of weird, inharmonic wavetables that can give semi-random texture and movement to the spectrum of a "sterile" sawtooth or square. You can control the amount of random dissonance very precisely with the harmonize parameter.TritoneAddiction wrote: ↑19 Nov 2017One of them for me is CRAPRE 2. It's the april 1 joke plugin but I actually find it very usable. I love the warm but heavy distortion. It can really be awesome for heavy drums. It can also tame sharp and irritating sounds. The wobble effect adds some nice randomness too making the sound less sterile.
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I love it. Use it a lot in this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpUN-YF-p6M
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