Ring Modulation

[Lost to the Void]

I absolutely love Ring Modulators as effects.
There are surprisingly few in the vst realm, that I can find anyway.

Anyone know of any good ring modulators?

[Mattias]

I feel your pain. I love them as well.
As you say there are usually no 100% dedicated RMs but implanted RM in other units instead. Oh well.

Here are a few I dig:

M multibandringmodulatorhttp://www.meldaproduction.com/mcreativ ... ulator.php
Ringelay http://www.shuttlebugrecords.com/Pages/shuttleplugs.htm
Ringo http://music.service-1.de/html/wok_ring ... r_vst.html
Modulatorhttp://www.niallmoody.com/ndcplugs/themodulator2.htm

Then some goodies where RM is included in like Truc2, Camelphat and the likes.

[ashley BORG]

Funny you should post this. After reading Mike Parkers Tea & Techno podcast I made it my mission to learn about RM and see if I could find a decent one.
I bought the M multibandringmodulator, by my amateur standards I think it's pretty good, and can see how it will be useful. There's also a grain effects module they also do which could be handy when combined with the RM

[brian]

ive started to use logics ringshifter lately, get some really cool sounding effects from it

[arc]

Arturia's Moog Modular V can be used as an insert effect, which has a ring modulator.

[Lost to the Void]

I feel your pain. I love them as well.
As you say there are usually no 100% dedicated RMs but implanted RM in other units instead. Oh well.

Here are a few I dig:

M multibandringmodulatorhttp://www.meldaproduction.com/mcreativ ... ulator.php
Ringelay http://www.shuttlebugrecords.com/Pages/shuttleplugs.htm
Ringo http://music.service-1.de/html/wok_ring ... r_vst.html
Modulatorhttp://www.niallmoody.com/ndcplugs/themodulator2.htm

Then some goodies where RM is included in like Truc2, Camelphat and the likes.

I have modulator 2, will try some of the others cheers.

I love ring mods that self oscillate and feedback, I used to use a fair bit of that in my harder stuff

[bram2000]

RM has always been a mystery to me. I've only ever used the ones built into synths. What would you generally use it for? I guess adding upper harmonics etc.

[Lost to the Void]

Ring mods are great fuckeruppers

You can use them for so much, turning sounds into metallics
slow changing atonal sweeps
turning stuff into chords
adding wicked harmonic resonance

all sorts

[arc]

RM has always been a mystery to me. I've only ever used the ones built into synths. What would you generally use it for? I guess adding upper harmonics etc.

I feel the same way. Every time I've used one, it never gave good results. It just changes things into generally useless noise. I'm sure this is purely a result of my lack of understanding on how they work, but based on the few times I've tried to apply them to my sounds, it just didn't do anything useful.

[Mono-xID]

if you need metallic sounds,RingMod is the one to go...I love Maul's Ring Mod function

[elk]

yeah I've always found it odd that there are so few ring mods in VST form. oddly enough my favourite software ring modulator is Synapse Audio RM-1 which is only available for Reason as a Rack Extension.