ab vortEx X | Spatial Spacetime Designer Demo: Pretty Cool! (Review in Pinned YT Comment)

Описание: ab vortEx X is an experimental reverb for iOS which is a ‘lite’ version of the Audio Brewers ab vortEx plugin. The dev is listed in the AppStore under the name Alejandro Cabrera Zuniga. While less powerful than its desktop big brother, this is capable of some lovely, unusual sounds. See the description below for an explanation of how it works. My personal preference is to use the individual knobs rather than the touch interface as this allows for more control. For example, using the touch interface, I do not find I am able to get high Time values with low Space values. You can hear in the demo that this sounds REALLY lovely on guitar and plucked type sounds when you keep the Space values low and use high Time values. Has a very boutique guitar pedal kind of feel. As you will read in the description, the freeze type effects this is capable of work completely differently from a typical reverb. Viscosity is another very interesting control - high levels have a kind of smoothing and lagging effect on changes to the Space and Time parameters. I do wish that this had the full functionality of the desktop version - damping control, inbuilt EQ, pre-delay, modulation and more, but the upside is that it is lighter on CPU than it would otherwise be. You can compare the 2 versions’ feature sets here: https://www.audiobrewers.com/tech-sup...

❇️App Store link and app description from their website:
https://apps.apple.com/app/ab-vortex-...

On your iOS DAW, simply insert the plugin in any of the tracks. Make sure your DAW supports AUv3 Plugins (e.g. Garageband)

By touching the XY Pad, you can manipulate the Spacetime reflections. If you touch within the light-blue circle, you will get a natural-sounding reverb that can be used aesthetically in music or more traditional approaches. As you leave the circle, the Spacetime correlation will be big enough to start making the resulting reflections more experimental.

If the XY Pointer is brought to ANY corner of the Pad, the signal will be fed back to the engine - the results are similar to a “Freeze” in an ordinary Reverb, except this time, the signal is constantly being fed into the engine as opposed it being paused, this way, you can continue to throw sound at ab vortEx to keep making your reflections denser and more intense.

You can Manually adjust the Space, Time and Viscosity controls by manipulating the knobs on the right.

Finally, there are also Dry and Wet volume controls to keep the sound levels in check.

Note: ab vortEx X works exclusively in Stereo, although all the calculations under-the-hood happen in Ambisonics, the output will automatically be decoded to Stereo.

Controls that are not present in ab vortEx X but are present in ab vortEx, will play no role in the Reflections Engine of the iOS App (we did this to save CPU).

Works on iPad and iPhone, iOS 11 and above.