This update actually got sent out a couple of months ago but I just forgot to write about it here. So here’s the info-
Yet another pretty big update for an older library of mine. NOTE- this update removes the extra/bonus ‘stepped’ versions of the filter. I never really intended for those to be in the library and only put them in as a request and didn’t really agree with doing it. So I’m taking them back out.
* Re-edited all impulses. Shortened the harmonic impulse lengths greatly (in the HP and LP programs, not combo), which lowers cpu use, load times, RAM use. Made a few other very minor improvements here.
* Reduced the HP and LP programs max kern amount down to 8k.
* Improved headroom in the HP and LP programs. In old programs the signal would kind of break up if you had an input signal starting to get over around -16dbvu. Now you can push it several dB further with most types of audio signals. Some inputs sound better than others when driven this way. Drums usually don’t sound too good if driven to audibly distort (sound great with some subtle grit though), in my opinion. If you don’t like it, back off on the trim control! There is plenty of sampled range so you don’t need to always boost every input to the highest levels. The distortion can sound nice on things like bass synths and other stuff. It starts becoming really audible around -10dbvu. The programs have 10dB of input padding so you’ll probably have to boost with trim a lot to actually hear the distortion, but this prevents you from getting it when it’s unwanted.
* Dynamic behavior updated to be like how I’ve been doing my latest programs.
* Removed most of the extra variations, leaving only two new versions- a lite/clean and full. Lite/clean has no harmonics.
* Fixed a slight issue with the level of the harmonics, which were too loud in the past.
* Simplified the harmonic structure for the combo program in a way that drastically reduces the sample count for the full version of that program, meaning shorter load times, less cpu and ram use.
* Moved the library to a different set of categories inside Nebula- ‘CM4’ and ‘CM9’, for ‘cupwise mixing filters’ 44.1khz and 96khz respectively. Three releases in my Mixing Filters series is already located there, so if you have any of those, you’ll be able to have access to a lot of HP and LP filters all in one spot (so you can try different ones out quickly).
* Removed the liquidity control.
* Renamed ‘drive’ to ‘dist’ as I’ve done in all of my programs in the past several years.