Strymon has released a plugin version of its Deco pedal, giving DAW users the processing power create flanging, chorus, echo and double-tracking effects using an old-school workflow.
An emulation of its hardware pedal, Strymon’s new Deco plugin emulates not one but two tape machines, which can be used in tandem to create a wide variety of effects. Flanging, chorus, echo and double tracking fall within its remit, all with a vintage vibe.
There are quite literally two sides to this plugin: Doubletracker and Tape Saturation. The controls in the Doubletracker section dictate the relationship between the two decks; The Tape Saturation section can be used to smooth out your signals and add transparent or more aggressive overdrive.
These two sections enable you to create the classic workflow favoured by the likes of Sun Studios and Abbey Road, but with far less hassle and all the convenience that a plugin affords. The interface is designed to be easy to use, and you can choose between the sonic characteristics of reel-to-reel or cassette tape machines.
It runs on PC and Mac in VST/AU/AAX formats.
Deco plugin is available now priced at $79, and there’s a seven-day trial version. Find out more on the Strymon website.
Intellijel has introduced Stomp – a new Eurorack module that’s designed to make it easy to use stompbox effect pedals with your modular synthesizer.
Or, as the company says, “It provides the modular synthesist with a portal to stompbox nirvana, and the guitarist with a wormhole to the sonic manipulations of Eurorack modules.”
Stomp makes it easy for modular owners to use the huge range of delays, choruses, flangers, phasers, fuzz boxes, tremolos, wah-wahs, amp simulators, compressors, and pitch shifter pedals available to guitarists. It provides send, return and expression pedal connections that are compatible with guitar stompboxes, modular connectivity, modulation control & more.
In addition, it makes it easy for guitarists to use modular gear. Guitarists can plug their guitar directly into Stomp’s RETURN jack, and get access to capabilities of Eurorack modular synths.
Features:
Robust Neutrik 1/4″ TS connectors for the SEND/RETURN and TRS for the Expression interface
Signals arriving at Stomp’s RETURN jack pass through a Class A triode emulator, allowing for some tube-like overdrive at high gain setting.
Stomp is more than just a simple level shifter — it’s also an impedance converter, which provides proper drive and loading for any FX pedals or instruments you connect.
Separate gain controls on both the SEND and RETURN. This enables you to adjust the level of any audio being sent to the FX pedals as well as any audio coming back into the modular. Not only does this allow you to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio, but by significantly boosting the RETURN level, you can achieve some pleasingly overdriven tones.
Supports both Instrument and Line levels via a front panel switch.
Use Stomp’s RETURN circuit as a “direct box” for connecting any instrument.
The high input impedance of the RETURN circuit allows it to be used as a piezo pickup preamp for acoustic instruments.
Use Stomp in the studio as an active “re-amping” device to play pre-recorded tracks back through guitar amplifiers or pedals.
All inputs are protected for minimum RF interference.
Return signal can be phase inverted for use with those pedals or effects types that invert phase.
Low MIX output impedance for driving long cables, lower noise, and minimum interference from outside sources.
The Expression Pedal Output converts analog CV sources (or the internal LFO) into an output compatible with most stompbox Expression inputs.
Intellijel has introduced Sealegs, a collection of effects, centered around a true stereo multi-model delay.
Features include Tape, Bucket Brigade, and Crossfading Digital models; a saturating input drive; low- and high-pass filters; crackle + hiss generator; a multi-position 1970s-inspired reverb; internal modulators; nine CV inputs with attenuverters; three sets of ranges; clock sync/tap tempo; and three unique stereo configurations.
Features:
Three Unique delay models — Tape, Bucket Brigade, and Crossfading Digital
Per-model Color, Modulation behavior, and Saturation/Limiting
True Stereo delay with separate L/R buffers
Three Stereo configurations (PONG, Time/Width, L/R)
Three Range variations for short Chorus/Flanger style delays to Long ambient repeats.
Up to 6(L) and 8(R) seconds of delay time (Width can add up to 33% to Time)
Built in modulator with Wow & Flutter, Envelope Follower, and 7 morphing wave shapes
Lush 1970s-inspired reverb with 3 insert positions.
Saturating input drive with level trim
Stable external clock (or tap tempo) sync for Delay Times or Modulation
Highpass and Lowpass filters for filtered repeats
Freeze functionality for holding the buffer and looping
Nine CV inputs with attenuverters
96 kHz 24-bit Stereo I/O and 32-bit floating point internal processing
