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Some vst plugins might not work due to Wines current capabilities or for some other reason. Use TestVst for testing how a vst plugin might run under Wine. Some vst plugins rely on the d2d1 dll which is not totally implemented in current Wine. If a plugin has trouble with it's display then disabling d2d1 in the winecfg Libraries tab can be tried. The dx wrapper does a great job of getting the registry dx entries and porting them for use into any DAW supporting vst. Problem is that so many other non music softwares have a bunch of dx plugs, word processors, graphics programs, etc, etc. Universal wrapper and multi-effect rack. VST/DX Windows: Freeware: 2007-02-20: 0: 65db: dssi-vst 0.9.2: Run Windows VST & VSTi Plugins on Linux. Linux: Free: 2010-10-14: 0: 60db: Zen 1.7.2b: Free universal VSTi instruments presets manager VSTi Windows: Freeware: 2013-06-17: 0: 60db: jVSTwRapper v1.0 Beta: Java Wrapper for the Steinberg VST.

1. Vst To Dx Wrapper Freestyle
2. Vst Dx Wrapper Free

Vst Dx Wrapper, free vst dx wrapper software downloads. FX Freeze is a DAW CPU resource management Tool, which will help you forget about CPU, RAM or poliphony shortage problems while working with VST instruments and/or FX.Features:. Freeze option Freeze up CPU resouces. Ultra-freeze option Freeze both CPU and RAM. Freeze of a certain portion of a song. Saving frozen data with the song. Free DX vocoder 12) click “Apply” to process your voice sample. If you want to use the 4ormulator vocoder, you can directly use the VST version, so you can skip the steps with the DX to VST wrapper. Tal Reverb 4 (Free and amazing VST for adding reverb effect; For other cool VST plug-ins, see Appual’s guide “Ultimate Guide to Free DAW Plug-Ins for Guitarists” – there’s some gems in there that can be applied to your music as well, as well as a list of websites that offer tons of free VST downloads. Anyway, back to the guide.

You want a robot voice, a daft-punk-funky-groovy voice effect, you want it you need it.
you need a vocoder ! For quick and dirty vocoderization, you can set up Wavosaur with some cool freeware plugins and get the job done.

voice without vocoder (not funky) :
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/voice.mp3

voice with the vocoder !
https://blog.wavosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/vocoderized-voice.mp3

To keep it simple, we’ll take free vocoder plugin with a built-in synth for the carrier. The two vocoder plugins listed here : http://www.wavosaur.com/vst/vocoder-plugins.php are freeware and work nice with Wavosaur :

Sonicism Vintage Vocoder DX

more info and download here : http://sourceforge.net/projects/vvocoder/files/Vintage%20Vocoder%20DXi/
note that the plugin is in DirectX format! but no problem, you can use it in Wavosaur, we’ll give all the process in this post.

4ormulator Vocoder VST

4ormulator free VST vocoder

more info and download here : http://www.wolton.net/index4.html

How to apply a vocoder effect to a voice sample :

To use sonicism vintage vocoder you must first install a DX to VST wrapper.
The FFX4 DX-VST rack by Vincent Burel is what you need !

1) download FFX-4 (Freeware) from here : http://vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/us/products/dxrack/dxrack.htm

2) install FFX-4 DX to VST wrapper

3) Download and install the vintage vocoder : http://sourceforge.net/projects/vvocoder/files/Vintage%20Vocoder%20DXi/

4) launch Wavosaur

5) open a voice sample

6) open the VST rack in Wavosaur

7) load the FFX-4 plugin (VB_ffx4.dll)

8) open the FFX-4 plugin :

9) click on a rack and choose “sonicism vitage vocoder” from the list

10) tick the “Processing” checkbox in Wavosaur if you want to hear in real time how the plugin affect the voice.

11) you can open the vocoder interface by clicking on his name in the ffx-4 rack, so you can change the parameters and hear what it does while playing your file through the vocoder plugin

12) click “Apply” to process your voice sample.

If you want to use the 4ormulator vocoder, you can directly use the VST version, so you can skip the steps with the DX to VST wrapper.

Bring your audio up to professional spec before you burn that CD

by Rich the Tweak

OK class, your assignment for today is to put your 2 favorite commercial CDs in the CD player along with your CD you have made. Now take out a sheet of paper and write down the differences you hear between a polished commercial track and yours. If you are a beginner to the craft this is an easy assignment--there may be so many differences that you might not know where to start. For the advanced home producer/engineer you may already be very close. Now it's time to take it the final mile. Here's my list of issues with my audio (see I get to participate in this too).

The reason why I made you do this little exercise was to give you a sense of what corrective actions you might take to get your tracks up to commercial speed. The correct use of audio plugins provides for solutions, at least partially, to all of the issues above. Naturally, if your other recording gear is not up to speed, or if your tracks were not recorded well in the first place you will have some trouble. The best plugins in the world will not fix a harsh sounding digital/analog converter (though they will still dramatically improve the output). And of course, bad material, off key vocals and poor performance is a show-stopper no matter what you do. Don't think just because a pro studio has great gear that they don't have to deal with the same problems we've listed above. They do! The difference is they have tools to fix them and know how to fix them. Every studio deals with off key vocals, 60hz hum, trouble getting the snare to sit right, getting the bass so it sounds good on a boom box as well as a high end audiophile system. You might be surprised to discover (given you have decent mics and preamps and a nice audio interface) that their source material is not that much better than yours. They just know what and when to tweak, and when not to tweak. Lets cover the basics for the Newbies.

All About Plugins

The audio goes 'through' the plugin depends on where they are placed in your mixer. There are basically 3 types of plugins. 1. Track based 2. Bus based. 3. Mix based

A Track based pluginis an insert that affects only that track. The plugin goes on the audio channel itself, so all audio leaving that channel is effected. Plugins that should be used on every track individually are compressors (and on tracks that must be as loud as possible, a limiter). If necessary, you may want to add a noise gate, EQ, and delay, chorusing or flanging to a track. Vocal tracks may benefit from exciters, de-essers and tuning plugins. Guitars should have their processing at the track level.

A Bus based pluginis one that you want to apply to more than one track, but not the entire mix. These use the sends on your virtual mixer. You create a bus and use the send on each channel to route audio to it. The typical plugins for busses are reverbs. You may need more than one. Having different tracks go through the same reverb is tried and true studio technique to give the impression the performers are actually playing in the same room. It's also critical for setting the front/back depth perspective of your soundstage. For creative tweaking, there's no end to the things you can do with sends and returns in the virtual environment of the sequencer. But as you get started, just use standard reverb and delay as your bus based plugins.

A Mastering plugin goes as an insert to your master out--its the last step in the chain before the final print and all of the audio goes through it. These plugins are the ones that are most critical to the 'overall sound' of the final product. And it is here where we can solve many of the problems listed in our above exercise.

Vst To Dx Wrapper Freestyle

Plugin formats. There are several plugin formats which include VST, DirectX, Core Audio, RTAS, TDM, AudioSuite, and MAS. . First, you should note which format plugins your sequencer supports. Cubase, for example, supports VST plugins. Cakewalk and Sonar rely on Direct X or VST. (Note that it seems to me Direct X is gradually being phased out). Logic PC supports both VST and Direct X. Logic Mac only supports Audio Units. Digital Performer supports MAS. RTAS, TDM and Audiosuite are formats used by various Digidesign products. Sometimes you can, with the addition of a 'wrapper' plugin, use other formats in your sequencer.

A cool thing about plugins is that they work in all compatible audio applications you have on your system. For example, if you get a quality DX plugin for Sonar, you can also use it in ACID, SoundForge, Vegas. You can use the VST plugins that come with Cubase in other VST applications like Wavelab and even in Logic PC. You simply copy the plugin folder called 'VstPlugins' from your Cubase directory to your Logic directory. Yet regardless of the format of the plugin, they are all used in the same ways, on tracks, busses, and master outs.

Free plugins Free plugins should be used with caution. They may crash your sequencer or make it unstable. I personally will not use them. It's just not worth it to add a questionable device to an application that has to work in real time.

The best plugins The best plugins are not cheap. They don't sound cheap either. One secret the people in large expensive studios have over you is they too use plugins, sometimes the same ones you already have in your sequencer. Yet you will also find the top plugins in their arsenal. The quality of a high end plugin can indeed match the quality of its hardware counterpart.

Plugin Bundles

Antares

You know the sound. Everyone's doing it. Vocals are repitched and flattened to musical notes. Though Antares is not the only software plugin maker that can get this effect, it often gets credit for it. There is also Celemony's Melodyne Plugin and Waves Tune Native plugin. Before you spring though, make sure you don't already have one of these. Logic has a pretty capable pitch correction tool, and Cubase just added a new feature to Cubase 5 (full version) called VariPitch.

Yet the Antares AutoTune Vocal Studio looks like their most ambitious bundle yet. It includes Auto Tune Evo and Avox Evo, that includes the Vocal Toolkit which now includes Harmony Engine Evo. Whew! You'll need to have an iLok for authorizartion.

Auto-Tune Vocal Studio Native and Auto-Tune Vocal Studio TDM combine Auto-Tune Evo, the worldwide standard in professional pitch correction, with AVOX Evo, the latest generation of the Antares Vocal Toolkit (now including Harmony Engine Evo). Together, they provide a comprehensive suite of tools for producing world-class vocal tracks.

There are two major plugin bundle makers. Universal Audio and Waves. Both a famous in the studio world and make a complete set of plugin audio processors that would take a roomful of expensive gear. There is a disadvantage to buying bundles. Sometimes you buy plugins you will never use, because they come in the bundle. Both companies let you buy smaller bundles then upgrade your set by adding individual plugins later, but this method quickly becomes more expensive. I have both the Waves Platinum Bundle and the equivalent of the UAD Ultra Pak with a few extras added in. I used the Waves bundle when making my sample cd roms and they were extremely helpful tweaking my samples in Sound Forge. I have the UAD bundle installed on my Mac and I use them in every production, even though I have all the Logic plugins and many Native Instruments processors also in my Mac's arsenal. Overkill? Yes. You don't need as many as I have.

Universal Audio

Universal Audio is a name that goes way back into audio history. Two legendary products are UREI/Universal Audio 1176 Compressor Limiter and the revered LA-2A Leveling Amplifier. The sons of the late Bill Putman, who designed the 1176 and LA-2a, have rekindled the company. You can read more about the story. Working from their father's original schematics, they built a hardware re-issue of these classic compressors and then took it one step further. The UAD-1 plugins require a hardware card that fits in your computer. These come in PCI, PCIe formats. Make sure you get the right one!

Vst Dx Wrapper Free

Some of Universal audio's plugins are computer models of actual hardware audio processors. That is what makes them so valued. Many people say they have a hard time telling the difference between the plugin and the actual hardware. Units like the Pultec EQ, Fairchild, Roland Space Echo actually exist in the real world.

Waves

My older review of Waves Platinum (before I got the UAD)

There are probably more studios relying on the Waves L1 Ultra Maximizer and C4 Multiband than they care to admit. The difference these can make on ones music is outstanding. Want to hear the difference it can make? Download the demo from Waves. It's fully functional for 14 days so you can actually use it to master some songs courtesy of Waves. If you are like me, the question might not be if you can afford it, it might be can you afford not to have it

It took me a long time to warm up to the Waves products for a couple of reasons. They are expensive, and every time I'd look at the back of the box I'd see plugins I already had. Lessee, I have my multiband compressor, my reverb, my gate, my multi-tap :) After all, it all sounds the same, Right? Wrong! It took me less than 10 seconds of running my audio through a TrueVerb, a Renaissance EQ or a Ultra Maximizer to become a total evangelical convert. Your talking to a guy who has all the sonic foundry plugins, all the Logic plugins, and many of the Cakewalk and Steinberg plugs. What sets the waves plugins apart from the rest is not only it's stunning graphics and outstanding ease of use, but their unbelievable audio quality. The audio comes out of the oven warm, supple and professionally smooth. You really have to hear it.

My mixes are louder, clearer, with better bass, better transients. I've spent nearly a week just getting acquainted, bouncing old songs from DAT into the computer and then processing them. In about two minutes I can get dramatic improvements, just by chaining the 10 band parametric, if needed the Renaissance Bass, the C4 multiband, sometimes the stereo imager, and finally the L1 Ultra Maximizer. If you had a good mix to begin with, you'll find it easy to make it outstanding. Even if you had a just an old recording from cassette, you'll be surprised to find dynamics and nuances that were deeply buried in the original. The 10 band is so precise you can cut away damaged frequencies surgically, something that my hardware 31 band is supposed to do, but can't, not like this! The L1 Ultramaximer works so well with Logic that the peak meters match exactly. That is, if the L1 says it will limit at -.01 db that's exactly where Logic's meter pegs, ditto for bouncing to DAT. The result is increased resolution you can hear. Better tracking, better bouncing and a better mixdown.

Each plugin comes with a .pdf and paper manual so you can learn how the experts use these. I'm also getting awesome results editing samples in SoundForge with them, discovering new ways to polish sounds that eclipses differences between my studio and the big studios downtown. One cool thing is the 10 band parametric. Not only can you EQ your sample exactly the way you like, you can create a different EQ for the left and right side, and level each side so they peak exactly at 0db. And you can give your samples as much high end as you want, and surprisingly, the results are not harsh or strident. This allows one to make the perfect sample. It's good magic.

iZotope's Ozone Mastering System

A less expensive, yet complete software mastering system is iZotope's Ozone. Ozone comes in the form of a direct x plugin. But it's much more than a single plugin, it's like getting an entire mastering suite in one single interface. You get a paragraghic equalizer which has an excellent real time spectrum analyzer; a mastering reverb; multiband compressor; multiband harmonic exciter; multiband stereo imager and finally, a loudness maximizer.

You can chain these up however you like. The bands are moveable, just like on the expensive hardware multibands. One advantage of having all these in one plugin is you can bypass all these functions at once, or quickly bypass only certain ones. This saves time (and wear and tear on your ears) and lets you make the instant comparisons you need to do when mastering. You'll have a hard time finding plugins that can do multiband imaging and exciting anywhere (you won't find them in the Waves set, for example) and the way these work in concert with the multiband compressors is awesome. One cool thing I was able to do with the imager was to widen the midrange yet leave the bass alone where it was distinct, front and center--try that with your garden variety stereo imager. Also the mastering reverb is truly a godsend, just a little touch goes a long way. I like how you can easily set it to a narrow bandwidth so you get depth exactly where you want it and not where you don't want it. The Loudness Maximizer gives predictable results every time. It has a 'brickwall' limiter much like the Waves L1 that lets you jam audio into every nook and cranny of the audio bandwidth if you desire. There's also a 'soft limiting' option that is perfect for when you want to exploit the full dynamic range of the audio bandwidth, with quiet sections as well as loud bombasts.

I've tried Ozone with Logic 5 (PC) as well as Logic 7 (Mac) and Vegas with excellent, glitch-free results. I also found the spectrum display to be great at helping isolate system noise coming into my audio interface--stuff you can't hear unless you crank the gain. Mastering is an art that takes practice, but with Ozone, it's easy to get experience under your belt fast. Check it out for yourself and download the demo. Tweak gives Ozone two strong thumbs up. Get more info on Ozone.

IK Multimedia

IK Multimedia has long been the provider on the less expensive side of the plugin makers.

Cleansers

Cleansers? Yep. Audio can get dirty. Hum from unbalanced lines, ambient noise picked up from mics, hiss from old tapes, scratches on vinyl, and clicks and pops, radio frequency interference from poorly configured soundcards can all conspire to ruin your beautiful sounding tracks. Naturally, the real solution is never to incur these maladies in the first place, but often we don't have that option when we are working for clients, or when grandma wants your second cousin's 4th grade acapella cleaned up. As usual you can pay a little or pay a lot for restoration software, and there is no guarantee they will be able to fix everything. But they will help.

iZotope RX is the most complete audio restoration product on the market. This standalone application combats a range of audio problems via innovative restoration modules, detailed analysis tools and time-saving workflow features. Ideal for archiving, recording, mastering, broadcasting, podcasting, video production and forensics.

Bias makes a PC/Mac entry level plugin called Sound Soap. I have that one, and it is good if used in moderation. Bias also makes a full-scale version called SoundSoap pro.

Leave it to Waves to chart the high end here with the Waves Native Restoration Bundle.

For those who work on Sound Forge you might want to check out their Noise Reduction 2 plugin.

All of the 'cleansers' are going to take practice to perfect. Its very easy to mess up your files so you want to have backups before you begin.

Convolution Reverbs

One of the more recent entries into the Plugin Scene are convolutuon reverbs. This differ from typical reverb plugins as they use mathematical models of characteristics of different spaces to create their effect. The result is a much more realistic reverberant output that can exceed the quality one can achieve in the best hardware reverb boxes. The drawback to convolution reverbs is the immense hit on the CPU. Even today's fastest computers can't do too many of these in real time.

One of the first was Sony's Acoustic Mirror, which is now bundled in Sound Forge. Emagic then launched Space Designer and eventually bundled it into Apple's Logic. Waves released the IR1 Convolution reverb and recently the IRL Convolution Reverb ('L' is for 'light')

More cool stuff

Izotope Spectron Spectral FX Processing Plug-In
Spectron is the newest must-have tool for sound designers. It offers limitless spectral processing housed inside a powerful interface which lets the user control entire groups of frequency bands with virtually limitless options for sweeping and triggering. By chaining effects including morphing, panning, delay, and filtering. It's almost impossible not to find a unique sound with Spectron.

Wrapping Up (sic) for now.. Of course there's tons of other plugins available. I don't have them all, so there is no way this can be considered a comprehensive review. This article just touches on one that I know and like. The point is that plugins can dramatically alter your sound for the better and if you haven't explored this aspect of your digital audio sequencer you are truly missing out. The Holy Grail of Audio is not as far from your studio as you might think. With quality plugins like Waves, you can jump to the top of the class and deliver some outstanding audio.

Best of Luck in your studio enterprise,

Rich the Tweak

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My Favorite Vintage Soft Synhts
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Intakt
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Reaktor
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NI's Komplete Bundle
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Are Hardware Samplers Obsolete?
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