Each mode assigns select groups of under-the-hood parameters to five descriptively named contextual macro knobs, the main Finisher macro governing the overall depth and sound of the effect, the other four tweaking subsets of parameters around that with which to refine the sound.Īlthough simplicity and ease of use are obvious key selling points, Finisher Neo also sounds superb, bringing all manner of imaginative and characterful transformations to your productions. At its heart are 27 effects algorithms, which are combined in various ways across 50 ’modes’, which in turn are configured as 130 presets. The first in uJam’s now-four-strong line-up of macro-driven Finisher multi-effects plugins is aimed at contemporary dance and pop music production, and so focuses on high-impact and hyper-real sonic treatments for use on electronic instruments and vocals.
Learn more about the Snapin range in our article Friday Free Plug-in - Kilohearts Snapheap Snapins are bought individually beyond the handful that come with Multipass, but cleverly, all Multipass presets are made available from the word go, with any Snapins that you don’t own simply made inaccessible for editing but still processing the signal.
You can even nest further instances of Snap Heap or Multipass within a patch! Of course, all of this would be for nothing if the Snapins themselves were no good, but happily, they’re excellent, and with the likes of Faturator, Trance Gate, Formant Filter, Frequency Shifter, Disperser and Phase Distortion sitting alongside the more workaday modules (EQ, Compressor, Phaser, etc), there’s plenty of creative mileage to be had. Band crossovers are freely adjustable, and modulation of all Snapin and band parameters comes in the form of two LFOs, two envelopes, pitch tracking, eight MIDI controllers and eight Macros.
The first is a freebie, in which up to four parallel channels of Snapins can be laid out and modulated, while the flagship Multipass expands greatly on that by splitting the input signal into up to five frequency bands, each with its own Snapin processing chain, and adding Pre and Post FX chains. Learn more about Byome in this article - Byome From Unfiltered Audio - At Last A Modular Multi-effects Plug-in Which Is Easy To Program And Sounds GreatĪs well as being individual plugins in their own rights, Kilohearts’ Snapin range of effects (numbering 34 at the time of writing) also powers the Swedish company’s Snap Heap and Multipass host plugins. It all comes together as an intuitive and flexible signal processing toolbox that always sounds phenomenal, from subtly animated ambiences to wild glitchscapes and everything in between. The lack of parallel pathing and multiband splitting is notable, but Byome’s sonic diversity and stellar quality make up for it, with its colourful roster of delays, distortions, filters, granular processors and others deploying the superb algorithms from Unfiltered Audio’s Sandman Pro, Fault and G8 Dynamic Gate, as well as a raft of new ones.īyome doesn’t skimp on the modulation side of things, either, with a vast array of sources (including LFOs, envelopes, randomisers, XY pad, sequencers, and the awesome Spectral Follower, which tracks ’Brightness’, ’Noisiness’, ‘Darkness’ or ‘Tonalness’) and is assignable to anything you like.
Short for ‘Build Your Own Multi-Effect’, Byome is another modular effects rack, enabling a single serial chain of unlimited length to be created from a library of 44 modules.