Analog circuits have limits and saturate when they are pushed hard. I now understand how important they are to getting a smooth result that is never over-compressed. There were a couple of unexpected, but great sounding, behaviours of this part of the circuit that I wouldn't have deliberately coded myself. All the tone comes from the non-linear feedback based envelope follower. In the case of The Glue, the original analog compressor went to great lengths to have a very linear amplifier section, so I made The Glue perfectly clean in this regard.
Modeling any analog system in digital always has challenges and tradeoffs. This is a workhorse plugin, so the interface is all business and the control set is minimal, so when designing the user interface I wanted to reflect this, I wanted it to melt into the background as much as possible so that people using it would be concentrating on what they hear without distraction.Īre there any particular challenges that you faced in modeling a classic hardware compressor? Any behaviours that wouldn't make sense in, say, a digital compressor? Lots of people that use it have commented they didn't need to EQ as much anymore since things were sounding brighter and fuller already just by using The Glue.
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The Glue is me bringing this tone to the digital domain, it is a model of a classic big console bus compressor, transparent, smooth, and wonderfully full sounding. On a good analog compressor it really doesn't matter which setting you dial in, everything sounds good, just different styles of good. I was blaming me and not the tools, but in this case it really was the tools. I figured I just wasn't smart enough to work them out and that I would need to do some production course or something to be able to use them properly. I could never get any compressor I tried, either digital or cheap analog, to sound any good, so I largely didn't use them in my productions at all.
From my point of view they raved about them and focused on them way too much considering what they actually did for your sound - which for me was mostly make things sound worse. I could never understand why producers were so into their compressors. Since then I have been fascinated with the sound of analog electronics, and have been doing as much as possible to bring that wonderful tone to the digital world.Ĭould you tell us a bit about how The Glue came about? What specifically were you looking for in terms of sound, user interface, general "feel"? After a very short play with both I bought the Jupiter, there was no competition. I wasn't really happy with the sound quality of digital synths either, I remember going to a music store and they had an Access Virus placed next to a Roland Jupiter-6 for comparison, the aim was I think to show just how wonderful the Virus sounded.
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I was drawn into writing music software instead, mainly making tools to process audio in interesting ways that didn't currently exist, glitchy buffer delays other whacked out effects and granular synths. I did a joint degree in Mathematics and Computer Science and was mainly interested in artificial intelligence and image processing. Equivalent circuits of groups of linear components are pre-computed to save CPU, along with a bunch of other optimisations so that the model can run hundreds of thousands of times per second.I love music and computers and maths and the cool thing is that they all go so well together. The continuous circuit equations are discretised using MNA (Modified Nodal Analysis) and then solved for using quasi Newton-Raphson iterations to converge on a solution.
We use the same methods used in circuit simulators, but optimised to run fast. A straight line can be said to model a circle under certain conditions, but when what you actually wanted was a circle and were given a straight line you wouldn't be happy! So we don't blame you if you think analog modelling plugins are a load of BS, since some of the stuff you've tried probably was.Ĭytomic models circuits by preserving the location and connection of all the critical components in it. The term “analog modelling” is pretty broad, anything can be termed a model of something no matter how bad the model is.
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