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'Musical' sound mangling/shaping plugins

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2016 11:12 pm
by dubdub
I've been looking for some more tools to really shape my sounds and i've found that a lot of the more out-there sound-design plugins seem to tend towards very glitchy or distorted sounds so i'm making this thread for more out there sound-shaping plugins that fit in well with smooth / hamonically pleasing / 'musical' material. I'm familiar with the usual suspects like Soundtoys and stuff that's frequently mentioned here on Subsekt, so more out-there stuff is appreciated, maybe some of you know some nice stuff that's not so well known.

I'll start with two nice and cheap ones:

https://kilohearts.com/products/formant_filter - khs formant filter is the smoothest formant filter i've heard so far, with the right formants you can crank it quite a bit before you get really nasty resonances.

http://minimalsystem.com/Store/index.ph ... duct_id=54 - Although technically 'just' a reverb, it's more like Eventide Blackhole in that it can create huge soundscapes, yet it sounds very analog and musical.

By the way, i've been liking Live's Resonator effect - are there any nice plugins that do something similiar?

Re: 'Musical' sound mangling/shaping plugins

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:30 am
by Kromasome
Have you got Reaktor? Molekular can give me some good (subjective) results sometimes....

Re: 'Musical' sound mangling/shaping plugins

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:32 am
by Dolorum
If you like Live's Resonator, you'll love Corpus as well.

Re: 'Musical' sound mangling/shaping plugins

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 1:24 am
by msl
Rhythmic and generally experimental impulse responses can be great.

http://www.diegostocco.com/rhythmic-convolutions-2/


And though technically a 'bit crusher' Permu8 is still awesome for mangling sounds.



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Re: 'Musical' sound mangling/shaping plugins

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 2:24 am
by arkos
msl wrote:Rhythmic and generally experimental impulse responses can be great.

http://www.diegostocco.com/rhythmic-convolutions-2/


And though technically a 'bit crusher' Permu8 is still awesome for mangling sounds.



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Second that some never before heard sounds to be had, also further on resonators;

http://www.2caudio.com/products/kaleidoscope#_overview

Bit expensive but worth it imo and can be used for much more then just ambient drones :)

Re: 'Musical' sound mangling/shaping plugins

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:14 am
by Mslwte
in ableton I would recommend the grain delay, I use the first two presets all the time. corpus is great as well, you can sidechain a midi clip to it for instance and get some weird shit going on

Re: 'Musical' sound mangling/shaping plugins

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:30 am
by Monreal
Tantra maybe?

Re: 'Musical' sound mangling/shaping plugins

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:34 am
by dubdub
Kromasome wrote:Have you got Reaktor? Molekular can give me some good (subjective) results sometimes....
No, although I might have to hop on the Reaktor train at some point :)
Dolorum wrote:If you like Live's Resonator, you'll love Corpus as well.
Yeah, i've played around with it, although it's much harder to tune right than Resonator.
msl wrote:And though technically a 'bit crusher' Permu8 is still awesome for mangling sounds,
I've tried Permut8, it seems like the kinda plugin I was talking about in the OP though, were you almost immideatly get crazy distorted glitchy sounds.
arkos wrote: Second that some never before heard sounds to be had, also further on resonators;

http://www.2caudio.com/products/kaleidoscope#_overview

Bit expensive but worth it imo and can be used for much more then just ambient drones :)
That looks interesting, cheers.
Mslwte wrote:in ableton I would recommend the grain delay, I use the first two presets all the time. corpus is great as well, you can sidechain a midi clip to it for instance and get some weird shit going on
Yeah, I use grain delay quite a bit altough I don't crazy with it. Like I said, i'm trying to keep some kind of harmonically pleasing character in the sound.