They're back! The Nautilus Bundle from Audio Ease
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Among the first MAS plug-ins ever, the Nautilus bundle from Audio Ease makes its triumphant return for DP4 and Mac OS X. This one-of-a-kind collection of three plug-ins surfed the leading edge of a tidal wave of 3rd-party MAS plug-ins. And now they're back, ready to submerge your audio into the depths of an entire ocean of unique DSP effects.
If you haven't tried these plug-ins yet, you owe it to yourself to download DP4-compatible demo versions and give them a try.
If you already own the Nautilus bundle, upgrade today. New features include DP4/Mac OS X compatibility, support for high sample rates, and support for many different channel configurations, from mono-to-mono up to surround formats.
RiverRun
Granular synthesizer
RiverRun is a Granular Sondscape Synthesizer capable of disgorging immense sonic ocean vistas. Just load a small portion of audio and RiverRun granularizes the audio into a spray of particles like you've never heard. From undulating rhythmic waves to harmonic oceanscapes to sonic water curtains, RiverRun generates totally new sounds for you in seconds. Just hear for yourself with this demonstration of what RiverRun can do with a snippet of speech:
How does RiverRun do it? Audio from DP4's tracks, or directly from a disk file, can be streamed into and frozen in RiverRun. Tiny particles of the audio, called grains, are pushed through an envelope generator, pitched and scattered across the output channels according to the surface controls. There is no synthesis technique that sounds quite like RiverRun’s granular synthesis. Immense Gregorian monk choirs can be created out of a single utterance. A single guitar strum can be transformed into a 5-minute evolving wall of sound. With RiverRun's "Rhythmic" mode, you can even groove random samples locked to DP4's tempo, while they are simultaneously transposed to pre- selected chord pitches.
Periscope
Phase Coherent EQ and Analyzer
PeriScope is a flexible and phase-correct 32 band equalizer that offers incredibly sharp +36 to -144 dB bands. What makes Periscope truly unique? A real-time frequency analysis is displayed directly beneath the EQ faders, so you can grab your audio exactly where you see it. Push up a fader and you not only hear that band come up, you also see the frequency graph below the fader rise accordingly, too. Use the overview window to set the lowest and highest band to any desired frequency, so you can easily zoom in on a frequency area to obtain exceptional band resolution and separation.
Distribute 32 bands from 0 Hz to 400 Hz for powerful control over the low-end of your mix while everything remains completely phase correct. Or surgically eliminate just a 10 Hz band at 3 kHz. You won’t believe the effects you can create with an equalizer that attenuates and amplifies as precisely - and drastically - as PeriScope.
Periscope has been greatly enhanced for Version 2. Most importantly, it has been G4- and G5-Altivec™ optimized. You can now automate all 32 faders, as well as the low and high cutoff needles. Periscope is available in more channel configurations than v1: it now does quad-to-quad, 5.0-to-5.0 and 5.1-to-5.1, in addition to the traditional mono and stereo.
Deep Phase Nine
24-notch deep phaser
Deep Phase Nine is a true phaser that offers unprecedented control and visual feedback. Sweep up to 24 notches per channel with a versatile LFO while Deep Phase Nine plots their motion in real time. You can even boost peaks and notches to the point of self oscillation because a fitted look-ahead-peak-limiter constantly guards output levels. Automatable one-shots, glassy sample-and-hold phasers locked to Performer’s tempo, deep classic 6-stagers, notch spread control, this is truly a phaser done the Audio Ease way.
In this example, you hear 24 LFOing notches highlighting the partials of two chords to create an esoteric melody out of an otherwise static pad:
In this example, sample-and-hold, beat-locked, phasing LFOs pulsate while other parameters are tweaked. A single Deep Phase Nine by itself was used to process the synth pad:
