Fantasy plug-ins

[Nubus]

Wow dream come true. Thanks Gearwire, you made my fantasy a reality.

[mbc113]

Originally Posted by johnS

On the fun side, I'd like a universal side-chain plug that would follow the signal from one track, and use it to control a parameter of your choosing in a plug on another track. It would probabaly need to have some sort of ratio control so you could flatten out the dynamics for more subtle modulation if you wanted it, and it would need an overall output so you could set the range. (It would be cool to have a polarity switch, too.) This plug would have all sorts of really cool applications, and would turn your DAW into something akin to those old modular synths that could use audio signals as control voltages. Imagine having any part of your mix able to modulate any effect parameter on any other part of your mix. Groovy.

I think this would be pretty easy to do using Pluggo. I think within the pluggo format there are pluggo control buses that you can route control information between plugins, etc.

[silenced]

Anybody remember Digidesign's TurboSynth? It wasn't real time, but boy was it fun.

One of my favorites was arbitrary input-output maps... You could just draw a line representing the map between input and output levels. At its most simple, this could be a compressor. But it could get as crazy as you wanted.

A fun plugin would be a version of that but with some useful presets and a very simple interface - and to really make it awesome, multiband. So the simple application would be a multiband compressor, but you could go off the deep end with it too.

It's probably nothing you can't do with some other plugins, but it could be simpler and easier.

[silenced]

Does anybody know if this is the same wave shaping as was available in the Korg 01/W (which didn't have resonant filters - but wave shaping sure was more fun than resonant filters).

e.g.
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques...ml/node81.html

You get wacky harmonics, almost like FM synthesis from this. I think it's the same thing?

I would love to have 01/W wave shaping implemented in a plugin. Maybe Korg Legacy Edition Ocho? (Dodgeball anyone?)

For info:
http://net.indra.com/~cliffcan/01wave.htm

(Actually that whole website is cool if you have an 01/W - I still have two!)

[silenced]

I love free plugins! No matter how simple, unreliable, one-trick pony, crude, etc. - they're fun. The more one-trick pony the better in some ways.

What about a really simple additive synth? What's the cheapest additive synth plugin out there?

[dagosto]

Originally Posted by silenced

I love free plugins! No matter how simple, unreliable, one-trick pony, crude, etc. - they're fun. The more one-trick pony the better in some ways.

What about a really simple additive synth? What's the cheapest additive synth plugin out there?

I think Hardboiled Wonderland is a great additive synth. It is by the same dude(s) that made reversinator.

http://www.niallmoody.com/ndcplugs/hbw.htm

For free subtractive synths I would have to nominate the Iblit.

http://www.bostreammail.net/ers/iblit.html

While I'm at it here are some nice mellotron emu's:

http://batsound.users.btopenworld.com/
http://www.tweakbench.com/instruments.php?id=6

Mmmmm. . . free plugs

edit: all vst's I believe

[smopo24]

i like that staples commercial with the "easy" button. that's my fantasy plug in, except it would be a "good" button.

[Nubus]

Originally Posted by smopo24

i like that staples commercial with the "easy" button. that's my fantasy plug in, except it would be a "good" button.

Ah, that's the legendary Reverse Suckinator.

[smopo24]

oh, so you've heard of it? does it work with logic?

[Nubus]

Another feature I'd like is a global vari-speed control. Not like Abelton Live or Acid tempo changes, but pitch/speed, good sounding, real time and automatable.