I’ve made some really big updates to two of my older sets, Casspressors A, and Custom Tremolo. Here is the info:

Casspressors v2 updates-

  • made it so that the look-ahead control can actually go up to 6ms instead of 1.5 ms. this allows for all transients to be caught when combined with the fastest attack setting, which is closer to how tape compression works. MAKE SURE TO READ THE TIPS SECTION of the manual, to see how you can set up Nebula to actually allow for these programs to use more look-ahead, so you can get the more authentic behavior.
  • category has been changed from ‘OI’ and ‘OI*’ to ‘CP’ and ‘CP*’ for the main set. this is not under the ‘CAS’ category, but is still under the ‘TPE’ category.
  • category has been changed for the pass-through program from ‘CAS’ to ‘CW’ and ‘CW*’. this groups them with the pass-through programs for the compressor sets that i’ve made lately, and the idea is that one day there should be a nice collection of these sort of programs all in the same place (for anyone who has them).
  • external sidechain versions are now grouped along with the standard effects, but their program names are now labelled to indicate that they use the external sidechain input.
  • compression has been drastically improved.
  • all programs have been reduced in size with no bad effect on the quality, and this lowers RAM usage and CPU usage by about half.
  • liquidity control has been removed and replaced with a high pass control for an internal sidechain filter.
  • made the attack control readout, and the control itself, more accurate.
  • added an alternate set, which is filed under the ‘ALT’ sub-category. this set all uses the RMS detection mode and they are labelled as such in their program names. the main set uses Peak, but isn’t labelled.
  • added 3 other alternate sets which are filed under ‘FB1′ ‘FB2′ and ‘FB3′, which use 33%, 66%, and 100% feedback for the detection path respectively. this means that the ‘FB3′ progams are fully feedback detection compressors. the main set uses full feedforward detection. there are Peak and RMS versions of the feedback sets. try some of these for slightly different sounding compression.
  • added info in the description field so that the user can have a better idea about which program they are using at any moment.
  • switched the pass-through programs from using an RMS mode to using Peak, which i believe makes more sense for that type of program.

 

Custom Tremolo v1.1 updates-

  • some cosmetic improvements such as adding descriptions that will help the user know which preset they are using (since nebula gui cuts off long program names).
  • added an additional set of ‘manual’ presets. these are found in the ‘MAN’ sub-category. they have no LFO in use. the lfo controls have been replaced with a single control called ‘LEVEL’, which allows you to manually control what the LFOs were controlling automatically. this way, if Nebula can be automated by your host, and if your host provides its own methods of modulating parameters, you can use them and possibly have a lot more ability to shape the effect. another thing that this might allow is for you to have tempo synched tremolo, all handled by your host program.
  • liquidity has been renamed to ‘smooth’.
  • changed all programs to use ‘peak’ level detection mode instead of whatever was used before because i’ve come to feel that peak makes more sense with this type of thing, and i think it sounds more realistic.
  • someone suggested to make the control scheme more consistent across the various programs, so that you could audition all of the effects and have the same control setup if using an external midi controller. it was a good idea so now that’s how it is (thanks go to the un-named person who had this idea, sorry i forgot who it was). control 2 is always vari, unless there is no vari in which case it is nothing. control 3 is always depth.
  • renamed ‘drive’ control to ‘dist’, to be more consistent with my other releases where it is usually called dist. i think dist is a better name for the control.
  • added asterisks to the program names of the two programs which do forms of autopanning rather than just tremolo. also added ‘*panner’ to their descriptions.
  • adjusted the way the ‘rate’ control works, so that the slower speeds take up more of the control’s range. this way it is easier to fine tune within the slower speeds below 1hz.

 

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