Aries Rotary Speaker & Amp vs RingsFX Usage & Stats

Aries Rotary is a powerful, all-in-one rotary speaker and amplifier simulator designed for guitar, organ, synths, vocals, and more. Crafted using the latest modeling technology, Aries makes it easy to achieve the famously lush, warbling tones that rotary cabinets are known for. It can be used as a potent AUv3 effects plugin or as a plug-and-play standalone app. It is compatible with the iPad, iPhone as well as Apple Silicon computers. The rotary module offers six distinctive cabinet types. It comes with an extensive set of parameters that helps you tweak and control the sound in fine detail. The horn and drum each have their own dual microphones. Each mic has dedicated gain and pan. Each pair of mics also have continuously variable distance and angularity settings that alter the characteristics of the modulation effect as well as its stereo footprint. The individual fast / slow mode speed settings, as well as acceleration / deceleration parameters allow you to change the interaction between the horn and the drum, or to recreate various popular cabinet “mods.” The independent amp module presents six unique virtual-tube amplifiers to choose from. The amps can be mixed and matched with the cabinets as desired, or can be completely bypassed. The amps are specially designed to work with a wide variety of instruments, and feature an extensive set of tonal controls. While offering extensive headspace with sparkling clean tones, each amp is also capable of being pushed into warm overdrive with the characteristic definition of tube saturation. Each amp is also equipped with a built-in spring reverb module that helps conjure analog reverb tones of classic amps. A carefully tuned “Post FX” module helps you further hone the big tones generated by the Aries audio engine. These effects include a 3-band “Baxandall” inspired EQ stage, a room emulator to add extra dimension and resonance, as well as a vintage-inspired compressor for adding sparkle and attack to the sound. Professional features include a powerful preset management system that allows you to create, modify, and share banks and presets; MIDI learn complete with augmented settings at the parameter level; fluid layout that accommodates wide variety of screen and window sizes; 50+ factory presets that appeal to a variety of musical styles, and more. The standalone app also includes a built-in "tape deck" where you can record, play and share your creations. Aries Rotary is the inaugural offering in Yonac’s Zodiak series of next generation plugins. The Zodiak series aspires to provide sophisticated and powerful effects built on cutting edge audio processing technology for working musicians and the enthusiasts alike.

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RingsFX

RingsFX is an AUv3 plugin based on the famous Mutable Instruments Rings, one of the most dedicated and fully-featured Physical Modeling Eurorack modules ever created. At its core is a resonator that needs to be 'excited' or 'strummed' by MIDI input, noise, or external audio excitation. RingsFX emulates vibrations of structures simulated by 3 different synthesis techniques that can be plucked or process external signals: Modal Synthesis, Sympathetic Strings, and Inharmonic Strings. Traditionally, Rings was only monophonic but used a unique approach to polyphony that allowed the previous note to 'ring' out and decay while a new note was played. Rings FX provides these same modes (Mono, Duo, and Quad), but expands it with a true Polyphonic mode. RingsFX also expands the capabilities of the original engine by adding support for velocity sensitivity and MIDI MPE mode. The new polyphonic mode allows RingsFX to play up to 12 notes of true polyphony, depending on the settings. Doing so requires RingsFX to use multiple Rings resonators, but the more true polyphony you use, the more processing power it requires. Running in the traditional Monophonic, Duophonic, or Quadrophonic modes may be preferred in order to keep CPU usage under control. RingsFX has 7 modes in total, by combining the 3 basic modes with additional properties such as chords or specially tuned reverbs. The original hardware also had a secret 'Easter Egg' mode, which in RingsFX is simply calling 'Synthesizer' mode, rumoured to be based on one of the early Korg synthesis methods. This mode supported a number of mutable effects which now work on in all resonator modes. RingsFX also has a Mod-Matrix which allows you to combine the built-in LFOs and FEGs to great effect by manipulating parameters and mutable effects in realtime. Finally, RingsFX can be loaded as an AUv3 effect plugin. Set the Exciter Source to 'INPUT', and you can pass any audio through RingsFX and use this audio as an external exciter. For example, it can be used to great affect on a drum beat to create some crazy rhythms. Use the Output Mix to combine the original audio with the synthesised resonator output to create some stunning effects. Features ○ 7 unique synthesis modes. ○ Supports Mono, Duo, Quad and true polyphony. ○ Supports 2 fluid LFO's per note. ○ Up to 4 FEG's per note. ○ External Exciter modes. ○ White noise Pulse Sequencer. ○ Supports 6 mod-able effects and 6 global effects. ○ Mod Matrix ○ Input and white noise filters. ○ Program Manager with drag and drop. ○ Preset Search and Favourites. ○ Easy export and import of banks and presets. ○ Extensive help manual. ○ Web Transfer for backing up to PC/Mac. ○ MPE Support.