KVR Audio

mrj1nx · Post by **mrj1nx** » Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:42 am

I went ahead and completed my cytomic collection, this feels like the closest thing to hardware in the box for me, very creamy! I've just briefly toyed around with tuning in something more subdued for running synths through and found tons of tonal variation, slow filtersweeps sound really good through this.

Questions:
Any good tips n tricks for dialing in very subtle distortion (more like "saturation")? The things I've tried is different combos of voltage and bias + the mix knob.

Is there a way to inversely map the pre-post level (I guess similar to what the Drop does with the "Pad" feature) so that I can just tweak one of them and it will compensate the other? That could be nice addon otherwise, maybe just right click the pre/post button and it snaps to auto compensate mode or similar. I can do that with two inversely mapped blue cat gain plugins one before and one after, just wondering if that will somehow degrade the quality compared to doing it within The Scream?

Any plans to do transformer based distortion anytime soon?

imrae · Post by **imrae** » Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:47 am

For a more subtle effect, try lowering the HPF frequency by changing the relevant capacitor value and increasing headroom by changing the diodes to LEDs (or reduce diode counts to zero to remove diode clipping).

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Wed Nov 13, 2019 1:08 pm

Once the Scream is released I'd like to see you do an opAmp Big Muff! Very different from the transistor Big Muffs.

klaatugort · Post by **klaatugort** » Wed Nov 13, 2019 1:30 pm

looking at a picture of 'the scream' i'm left in a shaken, bewildered state. this plugin begs us to ask the question: what would happen today, if someone were to start an anti-skeumorphism plugin interface thread? because someone who starts such a thread, intends for something to happen, actually. it needs to stop, maybe i can. you see how those cables are plugged into the side? you can't touch something on a computer screen...

mrj1nx · Post by **mrj1nx** » Wed Nov 13, 2019 5:28 pm

Im pretty sure nothing special would happen. Theres great plugins of both types out there, on one end things like fabfilter thats more on the abstract vs many soft synths that try to look mostly like hardware, both approaches work great when done well.

farfadetfarfelu · Post by **farfadetfarfelu** » Wed Nov 13, 2019 6:00 pm

Echoes in the Attic wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 1:08 pm Once the Scream is released I'd like to see you do an opAmp Big Muff! Very different from the transistor Big Muffs.

You can actually get somewhat in the ballpark with this circuit (use strings of three diodes etc), i did an op amp big muff style preset a few pages back.

http://thebin.free.fr/KVR/FF-TheScream-Presets.zip

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Mon Nov 18, 2019 3:24 pm

farfadetfarfelu wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 6:00 pm
Echoes in the Attic wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 1:08 pm Once the Scream is released I'd like to see you do an opAmp Big Muff! Very different from the transistor Big Muffs.
You can actually get somewhat in the ballpark with this circuit (use strings of three diodes etc), i did an op amp big muff style preset a few pages back.

http://thebin.free.fr/KVR/FF-TheScream-Presets.zip

Thanks, I'll give it a try!

acousticglue · Post by **acousticglue** » Tue Nov 19, 2019 1:49 am

When is the final release?

ElevatedBeing · Post by **ElevatedBeing** » Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:02 am

acousticglue wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 1:49 am When is the final release?

andy-cytomic wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2019 6:58 am I'm hoping for a release in early December.

GrabtharsHammer · Post by **GrabtharsHammer** » Tue Jan 21, 2020 6:35 pm

Will it ever happen?

acousticglue · Post by **acousticglue** » Wed Jan 22, 2020 2:50 am

Is Andy still around?

cprompt · Post by **cprompt** » Wed Jan 22, 2020 11:27 am

acousticglue wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2020 2:50 am Is Andy still around?

Yeah, he posted on gearslutz a week ago: https://www.gearslutz.com/board/showpos ... tcount=282

andy-cytomic · Post by **andy-cytomic** » Fri Feb 07, 2020 7:18 am

acousticglue wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 1:49 am When is the final release?

Still working on things, but rest assured the technically hard stuff is all done

I've been busy getting a new development machine up and running on both windows and mac, had to fix a few little bugs The Drop and The Glue, as well as updating the installers to support the latest security measures on mac and win - which will be finished by the end of next week, then back to full time finishing off The Scream.

acousticglue · Post by **acousticglue** » Fri Feb 07, 2020 11:56 pm

Is that a time machine your building? I know you stated not much will change nor should it have to.

Robert Randolph · Post by **Robert Randolph** » Sat Feb 08, 2020 12:38 am

andy-cytomic wrote: ↑Fri Feb 07, 2020 7:18 am
acousticglue wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 1:49 am When is the final release?
Still working on things, but rest assured the technically hard stuff is all done

I've been busy getting a new development machine up and running on both windows and mac, had to fix a few little bugs The Drop and The Glue, as well as updating the installers to support the latest security measures on mac and win - which will be finished by the end of next week, then back to full time finishing off The Scream.

Keep on rocking Andy. I've been using the current version of The Scream very happily, and anything else will be a bonus.

Cytomic "The Scream" stomp box distortion plugin