VST Effects for sound design

plicktzah · 2022-10-26T08:34:54.585Z

I use K-Devices’ Magma and Sonic Charge’s Permut8 for evolving gritty pads, dirt on drums, bass and percussion, all the way to FSU stuff. For the latter, Plogue’s Chipcrusher is pretty handy as well.

Also: I second @Hlecktro’s opinion on the Arturia FX. The compressors and preamp sims are indispensable for adding some kind of coherence to sounds from different sources.

Habit_Reform · 2022-10-26T08:35:48.187Z

Output Thermal and Portal are very good.

Strutter · 2022-10-26T08:47:38.624Z

I like the iZotope Trash 2 a lot.

TRAINTRACS · 2022-10-26T08:51:43.623Z

Arturia COLDFIRE is currently my very favourite tone shaping/distortion/sound design plugin. It’s brilliant.

spikysimon · 2022-10-26T09:01:45.393Z

+1 on Trash. I really wish Izotope would do a Trash 3 (or at least an Apple Silicon version of Trash 2) but it seems like that isn’t happening

Strutter · 2022-10-26T09:03:30.007Z

It’s my go-to when I’m looking for something without being sure what it is, which is quite often hehehe.

Good price and I think it’s a v mood inducing plug-in.

the_duckchild · 2022-10-26T09:15:39.457Z

love D12 Decimort for destroying stuff.

Also this is pretty brilliant for doing absolutely batsh1t stuff, in a rhythmic or otherwise manner;

Devious Machines

Infiltrator 2 - Devious Machines

The ultimate multi-effects machine

Est. reading time: 1 minute

full disclosure: I know the developer a bit and got sent a licence for V1.

Sternenlicht · 2022-10-26T11:41:07.623Z

BLKrbbt:

I just got the plugin, but havent had the time to make anything to post to show how it sounds.

I saw that one aswell, but Stranjah is quiet an expert, he can make things look good.
I found the time effect quite pleasing to hear - but as i understood its some of phaser module at the end. So i questioned myself how to decipher it further before i put money on it.

Sternenlicht · 2022-10-26T12:16:03.963Z

This one looks interesting aswell, a little more involved with having macros included .

Glitch 2 is also an obvious candidate if we are talking about glitch fx.
Stutter Edit from Izotope is somewhat similar to all of these types of plugins.

These two need midi input to change the sequence, like a midi clip playing notes - i found stutter edit not to be completely stable, it hangs itself up now and then - so i mostly render it, and use snips here and then.

tdmusic · 2022-10-26T15:18:50.680Z

I got Unfiltered Audio Triad for next to nothing in one of Plug-in Alliance’s regular discounts and it’s pretty cool for this. It’s a multi FX processor with lots of modulation options, but it can also process three frequency bands independently which gives it more subtlety than a lot of multi FX plugins.

I haven’t really gone beyond the presets but you can turn an element into something totally different just by trying some random presets and randomising the parameters. If you see it cheap it’s well worth a go.

deadfly · 2022-10-26T16:28:18.062Z

I use NI Guitar Rig quite a bit because of its flexibility eg you can modulate things with as many LFOs as you like

CCMP · 2022-10-26T16:43:57.022Z

I’d give a vote to XLN’s RC-20… that covers a lot of ground.

aBOA · 2022-10-26T17:14:41.610Z

Chebyshev from Soundhack is nice for distortion, needs a bit of fiddling around but works nice after reverb or echo I’ve found. I think this one is free, I know they have a couple of free stuff.

Also Noise engineering’s Ruina is great for distortion too, you can really go wild with it. Also free.

djadonis206 · 2022-10-26T18:50:49.300Z

No real specific brands or FX but I’ll suggest just stacking random FX and random presets. Then use something like LFO to reshape the overall outcome. You might be surprised

OldmanChompski · 2022-10-26T19:23:31.613Z

this thread seems to have become a shaperbox thread but I will jump in as well and say shaperbox 3 is dope.

Sternenlicht · 2022-10-26T23:36:11.235Z

could you elaborate on the time effect? What is it exactly?

OldmanChompski · 2022-10-27T00:24:40.618Z

It takes the incoming sound and drops the tempo of it. Like if you were to play a sample at -12 semitones it’ll slow it down. Then you can have the actual amount of semitones be modulated by the shapers automation tool and of course adjust the mix and have it only effect certain bands. On a basic level it’s great for emulating tape stop effects but you can get real wacky with it. I’m still like a more powerful version of FL Studios Grossbeat.

OldmanChompski · 2022-10-27T00:27:06.751Z

This is gonna be a better video to explain what it can all do.

Edit:

Here’s another one from Shaperbox 1 but it shows the basics of what it does:

captain8 · 2022-10-27T00:32:53.031Z

buy modalics beat scholar and abuse it

captain8 · 2022-10-27T01:05:44.185Z

is infiltrator 2 the best of it’s sort or is there anything comparable for example I don’t think effectrix is comparable… so what is ?