If you’re an electronic music maker and a fan of acts like Aphex Twin and Autechre, we reckon this new free plugin by Stone Voices is well worth a look. Brandulator v2.0 is a sequenced multi-fx plugin with 3 x 16 step lanes, each step of which can be programmed to have a Filter/Gate, Comb filter, Vocoder or Ring Mod. Each step can be tuned with the on board knobs and there’s extensive options to control the pitch with scales and external MIDI control.
The demo video gives you an idea of the possible sounds:
To get you up and running, here’s a copy/paste from the manual explaining the button functions:
| Mute. Signal to output does not pass. | |
| Filter/Gate. The signal passes through the Moog filter for low frequencies, where the cut frequency is given by a tonality in the range C0 – F#10. The quality factor of all filters of this type in all channels is controlled by the Depth parameter. If the G10 tone is set, the signal simply bypasses the filter (this is used in trance gate). | |
| Comb+. The signal passes through a comb filter with positive feedback, where the cut frequency is given by a tonality in the range C0 – G10. The feedback value of all filters of this type in all channels is controlled by the Depth parameter. | |
| Comb-. The signal passes through a negative feedback combs filter, where the cut frequency is given by a tonality in the range C0 – G10. The feedback value of all filters of this type in all channels is controlled by the Depth parameter. | |
| Vocoder. The signal passes to the input of the vocoder as a carrier. As a modulator, a sawtooth wave generator is used, the tonality of which is given in the range C0 – G10. | |
| Ring mod. The signal passes through a ring modulator, where a sinusoidal wave generator is used as a modulator, the tonality of which is given in the range C0 – G10. |
There’s a number of plugins on the market with a similar concept, but we’ve never come across one this well featured for free. Pretty awesome!
Download is via the Stone Voices website here – http://stone-voices.ru/vst/brandulator
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