New Spectron Plugin from Izotope

MacMoney wrote on 6/27/2003, 8:03 AM
http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/spectron/index.html

The VERY cool guys from Izotope have just released called Spectron check it out!

(From the Izotope web page)
Spectron uses a spectral engine to split audio into thousands of frequency bands, apply effects independently to each band, and resynthesize the audio to create entirely new sounds.

Spectron can provide delay effects, but it adds the ability to selectively delay, feedback and modulate specific ranges of frequencies. Or it can sound like a flanger or chorus, but with additional spectral complexity and richness. It can filter signals, but unlike an EQ it has the unique ability to morph, modulate and harmonically filter sounds.


If you're looking for something new, you've come to the right place. Spectron can be swirly, funky, electronic, organic, ambient, trippy or retro. It can be a delay, chorus, filter, flanger, panner, morpher -- but not like any you've ever heard before.

Download the demo

George Ware

Comments

Arnar wrote on 6/27/2003, 11:42 AM
hmmm..Sounds ok but i think they are reaching when they say its something totally new.
As well as the fact that at least all the demos have this phasey digital character that i personally dislike.

Ozone is great though
bgc wrote on 6/27/2003, 2:10 PM
Thanks for the heads up George, I tried the demo and really like it. Kind of like the Waves Enigma with more "dimensions". I just bought one.

btw: ignore the demo files on the page - they're rather lame. try the demo on some of your own stuff, especially complete songs to get an idea of what it can do.
bgc
Geoff_Wood wrote on 6/27/2003, 6:17 PM
If they focussed their efforts on making Ozone more efficient, I might be inclined to buy that ...

;-)

geoff
MacMoney wrote on 6/27/2003, 7:44 PM
Thanks bgc
I haven't tried it yet.

George
SHTUNOT wrote on 6/27/2003, 9:37 PM
Just bought it!!! YAY NEW TOY!!! ;)

Ed.
Erik_from_iZotope wrote on 6/27/2003, 10:33 PM
Hi All,

Thanks for the heads-up that the demo MP3s are kind of lame :-) I agree- they do kind of make too much use of the LFO swirly/phasey stuff it can do. Try the demo, there's 60 or so presets there that show much better range http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/spectron/tryspectron.html

Spectron is definitely an esoteric sound-design tool. Sort of an (affordable :-) NI Spectral Delay meets Waves Enigma sort of thing - two effects we definitely respect. IMHO, I do love what Spectron does to drums. (OK, I love what Trash does to drums too, but in a different way :-) But that's just me...

Of course, always available to chat at erik@izotope.com.

Erik
iZotope, Inc.
Geoff_Wood wrote on 6/28/2003, 1:42 AM
Hey Erik,

Thanks for your input (so to speak). Is there likely to be any significant efficiency-tuning of Ozone, or do I just need a faster CPU.

I tried a demo on my 1G Celery and it worked OK just , but would not play back uniterrupted on my 533 with CDA5 (one event only)....

geoff
bgc wrote on 6/28/2003, 5:52 PM
Oops! I guess I should be more careful about calling things "lame" here in the forum(sorry Erik) - you never know who's running around here. Maybe my comment was too strong a criticism, how 'bout: the mp3 demos don't fully show the range of creative sounds that you can create with Spectron! :)

I sound like some paid endorser (which I'm not). I'm just a fan of funky effects (like Enigma) to create cool new sounds and this definitely does that. I expect to use it quite a bit on new karmacoda material.

bgc
Erik_from_iZotope wrote on 6/28/2003, 9:00 PM
Hi Geoff,

Regarding Ozone, the lowest we've been able to run across multiple apps is a 450 PII. Which is slower than the 533, of course, but still close to the limit.

We are looking at additional optimizations, but unfortunately (paradoxically?) the biggest gains we can get are from PIV optimizations - we've already taken advantage of what we can on the PII/III/Celeron families....

Erik
Erik_from_iZotope wrote on 6/28/2003, 9:02 PM
No offense taken :-)

Erik
JohanAlthoff wrote on 6/28/2003, 9:07 PM
Oi, Erik!

Nice plugin. I'm already a frequent user of your free Vinyl plug, which I have a little question about... Exactly what DOES the "warp" setting do?
Erik_from_iZotope wrote on 6/30/2003, 7:30 PM
Hi Johan,

>Exactly what DOES the "warp" setting do?

In Vinyl, the warp controls how warped the record is. When it's warped, the sound speeds up and dowm (and goes up and down in pitch) when it encounters a bend in the vinyl. So the Warp mode lets you pick the type of warp in the record, and the warp amount slider lets you control how much warp there is, or how much speeding up/slowing down.

Hope that helps...

Cheers,
Erik
JohanAlthoff wrote on 6/30/2003, 7:59 PM
Aha, that's why I don't hear any effect then... I mainly use it as a distortion plugin, with the noise and crackle settings turned down.

Thanks for the info, keep up the good work!
Arnar wrote on 7/1/2003, 9:12 AM
Can i just say that i LOVE the vinyl plugin.

here´s one chain .....
Vinyl plugin with loads of warp /Massive delays via Ohmboys/ huge Reverb /Vinyl plugin with loads of warp....

Result...
The most convincing tape echo i have managed to imitate in plugins.
(im imitating my almost broken Roland tape echo and its the broken factor that i love and try to imitate)

Obviously this needs a load of tweaks on every plugin.

LOVE IT!