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VST of the day

November 22, 2005

Brita

I’m a slow adopter of new technology in the sense that I want to spend time with it in order to get to know it thoroughly how it work and what kind of results it can produce before I really can start get going with it.

Electrotap released Hipno a little more than a month ago a set of audio plug-ins based on the Pluggo arcitecture. So far I have only had the time to investigate two of them Amogwai and Brita. They both seems able to produce interesting results. Brita is basicly a spectral noise gate. This patch gives a fairly straight forward illustration of how it works technically. The gate can also be inverted so that only spectral bands with little energy are let through. Brita use a smoothing spectral amplitude follower that can avoid bands from jumping in and out all the time. Noise reduction is one obvious use of the plug-in but it can also create some interesting and more abstract effects. If the responce is set to a high value the filter takes long to adjust to new values and often creates some interesting results along the way. If Brita is used to process audio in Peak this might give some surprises as the responce menory seems to be cleared each time audio processing starts. With high responce values I’ve instead had to use radiaL if I want to record the effect after Brita has reached a state of eqiulibrium as radiaL can keep the source file looping while Brita adjusts.