GTO and GTX are a pair of vintage style ‘character’ compressors, designed like their muscle car name-sakes for brute power, pure speed and to make a loud noise. They have everything you’d expect in a thorough-bred compressor, but are tuned for maximum control and ease of use, each with their own unique vintage colouring on top.
ClipStar is a soft clipper effect plugin, designed to prevent peaks in a subtler way than hard clipping, increase loudness and add pleasing saturation. Where ClipStar differs from other clippers is that it can leave the low frequencies untouched, where distortion is more evident, and allow a greater boost in gain without noticeably degrading the signal. You can use ClipStar for peak protection, for loudness gain or for sympathetic distortion depending on your mood and the phase of the moon.
GTS & GTA are currently only available in the Vintage colour bundle. GTA is a stripped-down, hot-rodded, limited edition version of GTO, with less features but more flavour. GTS is a souped-up, tricked out version that combines GTO and GTX plus adds a ‘MOJO’ control so you can add even more special sauce or back it off a bit too.
reMIDI (pronounced ‘remedy’) is not another music theory MIDI effect plugin. It’s the very first MIDI sampler. It literally cuts to the core of the problem of finding inspired musical materials by providing harmonies and melodies that are proven to work – enabling you to sample the royalty-free compositions of past greats (Bach, Chopin, Gershwin, etc). More in the mood for modern? No problem – You can use reMIDI to get the most out of your purchased royalty-free MIDI loops. If you can sample audio to help kickstart productions, why not sample midi? You can isolate melodies more easily than audio recordings and you can even extract all the chords used! Best of all – you get to choose the instruments. reMIDI comes with over 1700 royalty-free midi files in the factory library to sample from. But you’re never limited – you can even expand the library by sampling from your own midi! Connect reMIDI to your favourite virtual instruments and hit the keys/pads on your midi controller to effortlessly find the building blocks for your next track. You can edit midi notes exactly how you want by dragging out any slice that reMIDI serves up. Make each loop your own. You can even use it to help create a top-selling loop/chord pack.
9 Great Plugins from Ugo Audio: VST/VSTi Synthesizers Plugins for Windows
Not your typical parameteric EQ. SpectraFive utilises ZionDSPs custom developed filter algorithms to provide you with an EQ that has control options to spare, and a smooth and individual sound. Also features additional ‘tone’ modes for when things need to get a lot more drastic!
ValveMaster: Sonic optimization and audio assets management. ValveMaster, a fresh new design addressing realtime management of up to 2GB audio files with up to 32bit resolution. Unlike most common sofware on the market, based on evolutions of older sample editors, ValveMaster is completely new and takes advantage of DSP and disk-streaming engines from the award winning ProStationAudio non-linear editor for PowerPC platforms. Design is based on a single full-screen window (no pop-ups) with extensive drag and drop capabilities and allows to operate on sounds in realtime as if working with real fx gear. No need to preview effects, no need to setup parameter windows, no need to navigate your hard-drive to load/save files. Extreme productivity boost.
