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This is something that can most likely be done in your DAW anyway, but there are a few useful features that this incorporates, including a Recycle knob. The main addition to Version 5 is the Effects Rack, which allows you to arrange any combination of the individual plug-ins into one rack. The second is an analogue saturation plugin that incorporates five different models of studio hardware, as well as a Punish button. The first is an emulation of the Altec 1567a, and is good to be dropped liberally around your set. Then there are a couple of warming plug-ins, Radiator and Decapitator. My favourite thing to do with this is to have the resonance and cutoff respond to the gain of the incoming signal, which can divine some extremely squelchy bass sounds. The FilterFreak 1 and 2 are flexible filtering plug-ins, which allow you to have filter cutoff and resonance controlled automatically in a range of ways, for one and two bands of filtering, respectively.
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The control it offers over the rhythm of the echoes goes way beyond the original units, though, including groove and swing control. Speaking of delays, EchoBoy emulates a wealth of units including the Roland's RE-201 Space Echo (obviously), the EchoPlex and tape machine delay. It can also be used to make dark, heady reversed sounds-something you can't replicate in many delay units. As with a number of the other effects in the Soundtoys stable, the GUI is simple, but several buttons give you access to deeper features, including the ability to change the character of the whole phaser, select a range of motion modes, have it react to the gain envelope of the incoming signal, and so on.Ĭrystallizer is a more unique effect, based on the Eventide H3000's Crystal Echoes preset, a granular echo effect typically used in the '80s to give guitar or synth lines a brilliant, crystalline sheen.
#Soundtoys 5 software#
PhaseMistress, inspired by a range of hardware units, is regarded by many as the nicest software phaser on the market. 15 of the 17 standalone plug-ins are from the previous collection, and they've only had minor tweaks, the most immediately noticeable of which are just GUI layout changes.Įach of them has a lot of individual character, but some of my personal highlights follow. This new release feels more like a post in the ground than a complete revamp-there's more in common with Soundtoys 4 than there is new about it. But the thing that has avid users raving about them has always been their sound-they really do hit a remarkable level of hardware authenticity.Įvery so often they bundle their software up, having made improvements and additions, and now we're up to Soundtoys 5. The plug-ins offer flexibility often far beyond the original items, though, turning them into creative powerhouses in their own right. Having built up a collection of effects and processors, they have taken great pains to replicate the character and imperfections of those items. Soundtoys have always been at the top of the pile when it comes to analogue-sounding software.