From ba67e2a44cf3f0ae8867f3bc46cf161323734f11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christopher Johnson Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:49:38 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Elliptical --- Airwindopedia.txt | 14 +++++++++++++- what.txt | 1 + 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Airwindopedia.txt b/Airwindopedia.txt index 4634f458f..4551fbde5 100644 --- a/Airwindopedia.txt +++ b/Airwindopedia.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Ambience: ClearCoat, TapeDelay2, Doublelay, PitchDelay, SampleDelay, BrightAmbie Amp Sims: GrindAmp, FireAmp, LeadAmp, CrickBass, Wolfbot, LilAmp, MidAmp, BigAmp, Cabs, BassDrive, BassAmp -Bass: DubSub2, OrbitKick, Hermepass, BassKit, DubCenter, DubSub, Floor, Infrasonic, FathomFive +Bass: DubSub2, OrbitKick, Elliptical, Hermepass, BassKit, DubCenter, DubSub, Floor, Infrasonic, FathomFive Biquads: BiquadStack, BiquadNonLin, BiquadHiLo, BiquadPlus, Biquad, BiquadDouble, BiquadOneHalf, BiquadTriple, Biquad2 @@ -2085,6 +2085,18 @@ I’ve always liked this one. ElectroHat uses primitive residue sequences to pro You use this by feeding some sort of control voltage to it. It responds very, very quickly, so if there’s any amplitude modulation as part of your wave, you’ll hear it affecting the hat. You can use that on purpose, you can use a real DC control voltage to drive it, or you can simply make the envelope you want using a square wave tone for the underlying signal: it’ll rectify the squarewave to be only positive, and that’ll end up the same as a control voltage. +############ Elliptical highpasses the side channel. + +So this is by request: I got asked whether it was possible for me to make a great elliptical EQ. And of course I said 'well, ToVinyl does that though it also does some other things', and it's been a while since I did ToVinyl plus it's partly designed to produce sound as if it's FROM vinyl, with the groovewear control (which itself became other plugins like GrooveWear and CrunchyGrooveWear), and what if I was able to do a standalone elliptical EQ that's way better? + +Here's how I did. ToVinyl uses a weird early technique I liked, trying to steepen a very simple IIR filter by using many poles: this would be great if it worked! Instead, it doesn't really steepen nearly as much, and then it's implemented in a way where it kinda resonates. End result is almost a 'color' EQ, with huge amounts of phase shifting: it will take a distorted bassy clipped noise and turn it into giant bass peaks over a wide range, and that's ToVinyl. + +And so I was asked back then if I could make a better highpass, just a stereo mastering highpass, by Gregg of Hermetech Mastering, and Hermepass took shape, with way fewer poles but arranged differently: going up to the desired point, but then with each new pole dropping back by the Golden Ratio towards roughly 20 hz at the lowest, and lastly the poles got introduced with mini dry/wet controls between each step, something that got used in the four stages of cascaded filtering in the Z series filters, but Hermepass had this for six stages of increasingly deeper cutoff. + +It remains a solid, tonally clear highpass filter: not a brickwall, but one where you can cut the lows and really not hear where the cut is. That's the intention. And that's where I got the highpass for Elliptical. If you like the one you'll like the other. The interesting thing about using it for an elliptical filter is, you can filter incredibly hard without hearing it change the sound. In demonstrating it I had to make use of Golem, to show an out-of-phase sound that's literally just the side channel. Otherwise, it fools you into thinking everything's still full bass. + +And of course that's the goal with an elliptical filter: these aren't about sound effects, they're about stopping the side channel from modulating the depth of a vinyl groove, or about using stereo woofers most efficiently. And that's where Elliptical shines. Keep Golem handy if you have to spot check what the filter's doing, find useful settings and then trust that even though it sounds like there's a lot of heavy stereo bass, it's really just an illusion and Elliptical is controlling the heck out of it, while pretending the sound is unchanged :) + ############ Energy is electrifying fixed-frequency treble boosts. In the continuing series of ‘weird algorithms other people can’t give you’, here’s Energy. What’s the matter with Energy that only Airwindows can/will do it? Pretty simple. It’s a bizarre algorithm which acts like half a super-high-Q boost and can’t be tuned in the normal way. It can only work on integer multiples of the sample rate. So the labels only relate to 44.1K, they’re colorfully named rather than specifying frequencies, and at different sample rates any frequency labels would be lies anyhow… and they can’t be tuned, and the Q can’t be altered. Literally all it does is slam huge amounts of super-aggressive treble on. diff --git a/what.txt b/what.txt index d5f3403ac..3f6411c3b 100644 --- a/what.txt +++ b/what.txt @@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ Edge is a seven-stage distortion with Hypersonic filtering and tone shaping cont EdIsDim is mid/side conversion utility plugins.[coll=Latest] Elation is a re-release of another old Character plugin.[coll=Latest] ElectroHat is a hi-hat tone generator that uses the original sound as a control voltage.[coll=Latest] +Elliptical highpasses the side channel.[coll=Latest,Recommended] Energy is electrifying fixed-frequency treble boosts.[coll=] Energy2 is electrifying fixed-frequency treble boosts for high sample rate.[coll=Recommended,Latest] Ensemble is a weird flangey little modulation effect.[coll=Latest]