Unisonizer - real time unison effect plugin

Nice, quite flexible plugin for modulated, polyphonic +/- 1 octaver sounds.

I rather am a guitarist than a keyboarder, who usually prefers pure tube amp tones, if it comes to effects, a (vintage) phaser, Lesile/Univibe, tape echo and/or spring reverb do the job for me usually.

With meanwhile one exception: I always liked Octaver sounds, especially -1 ones, but often found them sounding too synthetic and they usually had one disadvantage, the mostly were monophonic.

In reality I sometimes use a PitchFork meanwhile, which does a good job, but although I have some pitch shifting / octaver plugins, they did not convince me so much sonically or had only been monophonic.

I got the Unisonizer as pre-release some time ago and the demo-version sounded quite good, with one disadvantage, the sound always was in some way also modulated not only octaved. So I asked Eplex7 if they could help me with this "problem". They made a comparably fair offer and finally I also got an additional "custom" version with the modulation sections deactivated.

I still noticed some decent sort or modulation, but for most of my purposes this version works better and I still can use the regular version as well.

The general sound of Unisonizer as a modulated, combined -/+ 1 octaver is really good, the modulations work fine, are good adjustable, also the mix between original signal and octaved ones, while retardment affects the reaction / latency time between original signal and octaved ones.

What I do not like so much is, that the final signal level usually is much higher than the original one, so an additional output gain/volume control would be an advantage. Maybe anyway a separate input and output level control.

But apart from this a - at least for me - very useful and good sounding plugin, which works equally well with real audio signals, like guitar, bass, precussion, maybe even drums, but of course also excellently well with synthesizers.

Try it eg. with a Minimoog, Taurus or OBX and you get - comparably simple - some completely new sounding tones, but Unisonizer also works well with simple piano sounds or maybe even better with modern synthesizers for optimizing eg. some cinematic sounds or ambient pads. I did not try it with vocal, s but I can imagine, that it, correctly mixed, also can work well there.

Unisonizer has it's own character, so it is no really completely neutral sounding octaver (but up to now I never have heard a really "neutral" one ever, but it certainly sounds way better and more naturally than this well known brown monophonic pedal from the 1980's)). The basic sound is quite good and with all the possible adjustment options you have a lot of possible final results to choose from and this "effect" still is not as inflationary as some other, more common effects meanwhile.

It can work quite decently or you can only get the processed effects alone and everything in between.

In my opinion a good, also comparably cheap option, to get some fresh, new, different sounds, also out of your already existing gear.

Recommended.