Jan 11, 2008 - by Even if Sugar Bytes hasn't a long history in audio software, the company has made its mark with a few products, such as Artillery, the Effect Keyboard (effects are triggered by MIDI notes) or Unique, a virtual analog synth, which includes a very efficient Vowel Filter, allowing to apply vowel formants, modulate them, 'morph' from one to another, etc. Sugar Bytes new product is WOW, a multimode resonant filter with a difference, its Vowel Mode, which seems to become the editor's trademark.

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Clever modulation capabilities are included. Let's see what we've got there. Sugar Bytes WOW 1.0.1 Mac PPC G5 2 x 2 GHz OS 10.5.1 4 GB RAM Logic Pro 8.0.1 RME HDSP Multiface The user interface is clean and lays out information in easy to read way, making it easy to understand and use, and is divided in four parts. On the top, a drop down menu gives you access to the presets, and you'll find two buttons, one for an info screen, the other for the Bypass.

On the bottom is the Master section: a Mix parameter controls the relative levels of the wet signal and the dry signal, so you could use it anywhere (as an insert or on a Bus), and a Master parameter adjusts the final level, useful in case of extreme settings. A little screen, Scope, monitors the audio waveform in order to see how loud the signal is. This is not a precision tool, but it may help to avoid distortion.

One thing to be aware of is that only the Bypass will give you total sonic transparency. The plug slightly colours the sound (not a problem in itself), even with neutral settings. The reason is that the Cut Off doesn't cover the entire frequency range of human hearing (from 20 Hz to 20 kHz), but only from 44 Hz to 16 kHz. If you don't bypass the plug, it will always cut some low or high frequencies. In the middle of the interface, you'll find WOW's most important sections: the Filter section and the Modulation section.

Choose a filter. As it's a multimode filter, WOW offers 10 filter types: Low, High and Band Pass, 2nd or 4th order (12 or 24 dB/oct), Comb Filter (ideal for flanger or chorus effects, and is very good when used with high resonance), Band Reject (cut a band of frequencies around the Cutoff Frequency and creates two peaks when you use high resonance), Band Crusher (blend of a bandpass filter and a samplerate converter working at the same frequency) and LF Crusher (same as Band Crusher with a LP filter). This is a whole battery of filtering tools, including classic filter topologies but also very original design, such as the LP and Band Crusher. Then you'll find a Resonance parameter and a nice pre-filter Overdrive, which seems to become usual on nowadays filters.

The resonance isn't the most aggressive I've ever heard, but it can produce nice sounds, sometimes close to auto-oscillation sinus or, conversely, with a lot of textures. There's a last parameter in this section, the Vowel Mode on/off. We'll talk about it later. Modulators Filtering is nice. Automated filtering or 'moving' filtering are better. That's why Sugar Bytes has included three modulators (and a control screen): an Envelope Follower, A LFO and a Step Sequencer. The first parameter is Freq Range, which sets the frequency range of a band-pass filter included in the sidechain circuit (from 46 to 7244 Hz, off when full left).

The Env Follower will extract amplitude information from this range of frequencies, this information being send to any WOW parameter, making it able to follow a precise instrument or event. Attack and Release control the rising (up to 1,15s) and falling (up to 2s) time of the detected signal. Gain will adjust the level (from -160 to 6dB).

The first LFO control is Rate (from 4/1 to 1/128T). This choice to parameter the LFO by time divisions rather than by hertz guarantees sweeping effects to always occur in sync. There's no free run mode, but the large choice of divisions and a random wave should do the job. Regarding waveforms, all classics are there: Sine, Saw, Pulse, Triangle and Random.

There's a bug: the wave name doesn't always match with the waveform in the control screen (which shows the good waveform). Sugar Bytes has been informed about that, and is already working on the fix. That's what I call tech support. LFO can be retriggered, thanks to AutoTrig function. You can set the threshold with Sens while monitoring the correct setting with the Trigger red light. Thus you're sure that the LFO will react the same way on a recurring event.

24dB LowPass in Vowel Mode. The Step Sequencer quickly but softly modulates mix between A and U. Overdrive and Resonance are set to 100%. 24dB LowPass 24 dB in Vowel Mode again, with mix between A and I being at 50/50.

No modulation, Overdrive and Resonance set to 100%. This is an harmonized lead, coming from an already recorded sessions. I don't want to record it again, just enhance the 'vocal' timbral quality of the harmonies. Here is the result, with an emphasize on the A vowel.

A complex pad, no WOW. The same pad, once 'WOWized'. The LFO modulates the Cut Off during two measures, in order to sweep the entire range of the Band Reject filter. Trigger is on, set to make the LFO restart on low F notes coming on the 1st and 3rd beats of measures 1 and 3. The Env Follower modulates the Overdrive, making it more active on the sustained notes.

In conclusion First of all, WOW is a very good 'classic' filter, with obvious sonic qualities. However, even if LF and Band Crusher modes are unusual (and very good sounding), its Vowel Mode and modulation capabilities make the difference. Of course, you may reproduce vowel resonators and other timbral characteristics with parallel filters and others plugs, but why would you want to loose your time when everything is already in WOW? Google Google Panni Parthen Video Song Download more.

Not to mention its easiness, when you compare it to frequently over complicated plugs that make you loose your first idea: filter a sound. If 'vocal' filtering effects are what you're looking for, and if you want an easy to use, versatile and modulation capable filter, at such a price (99$/79€), well, just say: WOW, I've found it!

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