Augmented Rotary Speaker Effects

Blue Cat's Spinal Vibe is a rotary (multi-)speaker emulator that goes way beyond the scope of traditional simulations, thanks to a couple of twists.

Spinal Vibe offers up to 3 rotative speakers, with full control over the rotational behavior of each speaker: you can not only select their rotation speed and curve, but also the amount of Doppler, amplitude modulation and dampening independently, as well as their acceleration and deceleration characteristics.

The plug-in provides a simple control to select either slow or fast speed and anything in between, together with a brake to stop the rotation instantly. The rotation can also be synced to the host tempo, and the phase of each rotating speaker can be adjusted too.

It is also possible to mix the dry signal with the rotated signal(s) together to create interesting phasing modulation effects thanks to phase cancellation.

More than a simple rotary speaker simulation, Spinal Vibe offers a wide range of modulation effects that can be produced by the rotation of several sound sources.

Note: the plug-in focuses on the effects produced by rotation, it does not include any distortion or specific speaker simulation. It can be combined with the Destructor plug-in for such purposes.

Typical applications: Rotating Speaker Simulation, Leslie Simulation, Tremolo, Chorus, Harmonic Tremolo, Modulation FX, Spatialization FX, Multiband Processing, Phasing.

Features :

• Advanced rotary speaker emulation.
• Up to 3 speakers.
• Slow and fast speed, with control over the acceleration and decelaration for each speaker.
• Brake control.
• Rotation can be synced to tempo.
• Control the phase and rotation direction of each speaker.
• Manage the amount of each effect: doppler, tremolo and filter.
• Adjust the volume of each speaker.
• Independent stereo control for each speaker.
• Manage the crossover filters frequency and slope.
• Find new tones easily with the Tone Maps explorer.
• Multicore processing to minimize CPU usage.

System Requirements & Compatibility :

Mac

• An Intel or Apple Silicon processor.
• Mac OS 10.9 or newer.
• Any VST / Audio Unit / AAX compatible application (64-bit).

Windows

• An SSE2-enabled processor (Pentium 4 or newer)
• Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 or 10
• Any VST / AAX compatible host software (32 or 64 bit)

Demo Download :

Download a demo version of Blue Cat Audio's Connector here.

Limitations

• 5 instances of the plug-in allowed per session
• The effect is bypassed for half a second every minute

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