![]() The main function is upward compression.Steve Duda on Reddit about OTT The Reddit post by Steve Duda about OTT. this brings up quiet detail ( usually high frequencies otherwise unheard)… while also providing the typical multiband compression duty of “ironing” (consistent lows/mids/highs).” “The main part of the sound is the upward compression (and the tough part to reproduce with a typical compressor) is applying (up to 36 dB but not more) of gain to a quiet (below threshold) signal. Steve Duda of Xferrecords created the OTT plugin (free), and had this to say about OTT in a Reddit discussion: I am wondering if the presets EDM #1, #2, and #3, included in the standard presets, had this in mind, but I have not experimented with them in series myself. As long as the thresholds for downward and upward do not overlap, it should work. Downward compression first would lower the peaks, then upward compression after would raise the valleys. But, one after the other in series would be easier in most DAWs. Two instances of Pro-MB somehow in parallel would replicate this simultaneous upward/downward compression. ![]() Doing these at the same time is not possible in Pro-MB. OTT has both upward and downward compression going on in the three different bands at the same time. (I’ve also recently found the Tokyo Dawn Labs Nova EQ and I included a preset for it at the bottom of the page as well.) There’s a link at the bottom of the page to get the presets I’ve made, but read on, please. (It’s not spam – just useful information, and you can quit any time.) While not the same as OTT, I found it quite easy to get the sound I was after once you know what the OTT is doing:Īlso, before I forget, I should let you know that you can get my infrequently-published newsletter delivered to your inbox – just click here. Also, it is free.īut, I wanted more control like I can get from Fabfilter’s Pro-MB multi-band compressor. I like it because it gives a bright and vibrant sound quality to any track it is applied. It performs upward and downward compression and is a recreation of the Ableton Live OTT setting (Over the Top) in their compressor. Fortunately for me, Xfer Records gives away a free plugin effect called OTT that is a three-band compressor. Load up Serum and we think you’ll be able to notice both what you hear (solid high frequencies, extending flat all the way up to the limits of hearing) as well as what you don’t hear (no unwanted mud or aliasing gibberish- just good, clean sound).I had the goal of creating a great multi-band compression/expansion scheme using Pro-MB. In Serum, the native-mode (default) playback of oscillators operates with an ultra high-precision resampling, yielding an astonishingly inaudible signal-to-noise (for instance, -150 dB on a sawtooth played at 1 Khz at 44100)! This requires a lot of calculations, so Serum’s oscillator playback has been aggressively optimized using SSE2 instructions to allow for this high-quality playback without taxing your CPU any more than the typical (decent quality) soft synth already does. Many popular wavetable synthesizers are astonishingly bad at suppressing artifacts - even on a high-quality setting some create artifacts as high as -36 dB to -60 dB (level difference between fundamental on artifacts) which is well audible, and furthermore often dampening the highest wanted audible frequencies in the process, to try and suppress this unwanted sound. Artifacts mean that you are (perhaps unknowingly) crowding your mix with unwanted tones / frequencies. Without considerable care and a whole lot of number crunching, this process will create audible artifacts. Playback of wavetables requires digital resampling to play different frequencies.
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