Great for beefing parts up, or transforming them with a more extreme treatment. The fact that there’s a preset called ‘Speaker Destroyer’ should give you a clue, and the ‘Outside the Club’ setting does exactly what you’d imagine. Lo Air, as you might guess, adds bottom end to any sound – from a solid bass expansion through to some truly extraordinary sub-bass wobble.
It’s a one-trick pony of an effect, but what a trick it is.
Reaktor metaphysical function generator#
Lo Air Subharmonic Generator by Waves Audio In the piece below, you can hear multiple instances of both Space Strip and J37 to widen and lift the drone parts, and to add an overall feeling of lo-fi wooziness across multiple sounds throughout. It’s become an essential component of my setup in just a few months. It adds depth and space in a way that a straight-ahead reverb can’t, and really lifts synth parts and drones, giving them a much wider, almost ‘3D’ feel. It’s modelled on a 1960s analogue tape machine used in Abbey Road studios, and it sounds gorgeous.Īt first glance, this multi-effect plugin from Audiothing seems almost too subtle, but I’ve ended up using it one over half of my productions this year. I’m a total sucker for making things sound like they’re coming through old tape machines, and this is one of the best tape effects out there, allowing you to tweak everything from tape speed and saturation to wow and flutter. In “Great Portland Beats” below, you can hear a few layers of Movement applied to a field recording of an underground train, to give it the motion and dynamism to provide an effective complement to the drum parts. The parameters are almost infinitely tweakable, and what I love is not just how this can transform an input sound into a full-on rhythm, but how it can be used much more subtly to lift sounds in other, less noticeable but still impressive ways. This is a really great tool to create rhythms out of any input source, from synth or guitar parts through to field recordings. We’d welcome your suggestions too, so please leave a comment below with your ideas. In each case, you can hear the tools in action in the Cities and Memory pieces below.
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Here, we update the piece for 2016 by asking several of our most frequent contributors which tools they’ve been using to work with sound this year.
This time last year, we presented our round up of the best sound design tools of 2015, as suggested by Cities and Memory contributing artists. Published on: 19th December 2016 Published in: Latest
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