This desperately needs some STEREO options. Ways to do some stereo widening and ways to control the space of the grains, to separate the behavior of the left and right channels.
People using the plugin for things you hadn't even thought of is the sign of a good product. It must have versatility, which is a strong plus point for any tool. I think I'll be buying this, and I've already thought of some things I'd like to try it out on. Well done!
Nice, and well worth the introductory price that I just paid for it. You and Cameron have come up with some wonderful ideas over the years, and you're both obviously quite skilled at what you do. I've seen some of your videos on how to create a Decent Sampler instrument, but somehow I always get a little lost in the coding or sample preparation along the way. I wonder if you would ever consider creating a step-by-detailed-step course for old hippies like myself, using Reaper and some basic coding guidance, which would enable even complete newbies to go from zero to almost hero in Decent Sampler instrument creation. Maybe I'm asking too much, but it's something I'd be willing to pay for, and maybe there are others out there who feel the same way: you can let David and Cameron know in the comments. ;-)
That's so cool! I've been waiting for this video ever since seeing Refractions start to appear in your videos; I wasn't sure it was for me but boy was I wrong, it looks (and sounds, duh!) great. Also, if you ever wanted to make an in-depth video/series about writing plugins with Juce, I'd probably even pay for that. Keep up the great work David, and thanks.
I already loved the sounds that your plugin made, but now having you explain how it works makes me want it even more. I’ve got my eyes on a 1980s yamaha synth on marketplace and I think I’ll buy both, I can already see (hear) that they’ll go well together. Congratulations, beautiful work!
When I saw your email announcement of this, I purchased it immediately (hadn’t even gotten out of bed yet 😂🤦♂️) cuz I had a gut feeling I’d love it. It’s such a fun and cool plugin. I’ve already used it on a couple of tracks I’m working on, and for the record, it sounds super cool on a trumpet! Thanks for all you do for creative musicians!
Ah, this is really nice and inspiring, awedome!! The sound pallet in your demos reminds me a lot of what I hear coming out of the hologram electronics Microcosm pedal. As opposed to that pedal, though, which comes across as a bit of a black box magic machine, it actually makes sense what is going on in your plugin with the different parameters and how it relates to the sound scapes. I feel like your plugin sits in a very sweet spot between intentionality and happy accidents.
Right after I hit send on this post, I will buy, download, and then explore. Congrats and thank you! I can wait to see what you will create for all of us home base producers next.
Thank you so much, David! Got the plugin this morning and I’m loving it ❤ my ten year old and I even made a quick song with it this evening. Super fun 🎉
This is useful! It's tough to find good stuff in the over-saturated plugin market. The non-stop barrage of plugins turned me off, so I don't buy them anymore and let the DAWless stuff get the most use. This is nice, though.
Very nice plugin, just bought it and spent two hours enjoying how pads can be transformed (oh the random function...) in super good inspiring softly rhythmic sounds. Applause!
This seems oddly like it overlaps the chase bliss reverse mode c (the reverse up an octave line at the end) but as a plug-in vs an effects pedal. I really enjoyed seeing how it evolved!
I started learning music production as a hobby a couple of months ago and have been watching a lot of UA-cam guides mostly related to psy trance and techno since that's my main focus at the moment. For some reason the UA-cam algorithm decided I should watch this particular video after I had a couple of drinks tonight, and even though it had nothing in particular to do with the music I've been focusing on I liked the sound so you can thank The Algorithm for at least one of your sales tonight.
This is really Off Topic, but i've watched quite a couple of your videos lately and just realized you were involved in the creation of Chile la Roja for the 2010 World Cup!! Im from Chile and i really really loved it! I hadnt listened to it in years and it brings back so many good memories!
Wow. Great work, man. Constantly impressed with you and Venus Theory. I’ve committed to sticking with free plugins unless theres a practical application that I need to find without a free option. This is something that absolutely has utility and I love supporting the creative community. I’m gonna jump on this one!
I love to watch someone who is great at music. It is even better when this someone is great at telling you stories with valuable information. When this person is evidently highly intelligent, it gets just incredible to enjoy. David is such a gem for all of us
Thanks for going over your workflow building plugins, it's always interesting to see how people approach these technical aspects of making music(-tools). Do you always immediately build your plugin ideas in JUCE or do you use something like Max MSP for the first prototypes?
Hi Dave! I *adore* these effects (and your work overall) and bought the plugin. I can’t seem to make it work, is there a trouble shooting guide somewhere? Also, I’m new to the synth world so it could be user error - I understood this to be a standalone program so maybe that’s where I went wrong? I’m using the same Keystep you use in this video and it’s hooked up to my computer.
It's not a standalone program. I don't have this (yet) but my understanding is you'll need to use a Digital Audio Workstation with an instrument loaded, and feed the output of that into Refractions.
Any plans on adding an AUv3 version for ipadOS? I’m slowly moving away from using my mac and while ipad is a great place to make music rn, innovative plugins like this are the lifeblood of the platform. I can imagine using this in Drambo, modulating all the parameters with LFOs and noise. Could be fun!
Maybe add a feature that randomizes the pattern from the list after going through it once or twice. I once had a lot of fun using ableton's randomizer with arpeggios to make me feel like I could play a sick guitar solo without effort lol
The ability to just turn any audio into an arpeggio in real time seems kind of trivial at first. But the utility is pretty apparent once you start demonstrating it. You could achieve something similar with a sampler, but it would be pretty tedious to cut up a sample and arrange on the keyboard every time you want to do that. If you want to change the source sound, you have to start all over. This plugin eliminates all that just does it in real time. Nice work and great idea!
Coincidentally last week I could get a friend of mine interested in sound design with the (toyish but great) Ableton synth intro course website. From my own experience (and yours, it turns out) it is more fun when you have some sequence, arpeggio or even one tone *) running while you experiment or work with the knobs and sliders. However, would I discourage my friend with having to install a DAW or even buy a MIDI keyboard (and audio interface) to start playing with some standalone synths? **). So I went looking for a decent simple (intuitive) standalone foolproof sequencer. To my surprise there hardly aren't any (anymore, I would not advise a noob installing fifteen-twenty year old apps). I also tried some VST hosts, but they require some entry level and some skills/attitude to programs, settings, installing etc. When I saw the thumbnail of this video I was struck, this is exactly what i was looking for! The sequencer part that is. I do not intend to insult you, and am aware I might, but I think it would be great when the sequencer part could be turned into a standalone sequencer you could use to play with (free) standalone VSTs to get people started with sound design? *) my Akai LPK25 does both last ones, the Keystep does sequences (I have one but I never use it, if feels to clinical to me). **) I found the terms used often confusing: in my opinion a plugin requires a host (DAW or alike) and is by definition not standalone. About yours I'm no sure, seems to work standalone, but does not explicitly say so in the description but does so in the versions history.
This plugin looks super, *super* cool. Just wondering, does it come with free updates or will major updates cost money to upgrade? I can only really afford the introductory price for the foreseeable future
Hi David, Purchased this earlier and wanted to bring a potential problem to your attention. I'm using it in reaper and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get it to work at first. Every time I tried turning it on with a mic plugged in, it was immediately triggering my "auto mute" function (sound over +18db). Eventually, I disabled the auto-mute and set my headphones on the table in front of me (hah) launched it again and found it was in fact making a reaaaaally loud sound. I figured out it *seems* to be the default setting of the lowpass filter being at max. Once I go into the advance tab, lower the filter, and start monitoring again, it works fine (ie doesnt cause an extremely loud sound/trigger the auto mute) even if I put the filter back upt to max after, but I do have to do this each session I want to use the plug-in. This may just be a Reaper issue, I haven't tried it with any other DAW's yet, but just wanted to bring it up as the auto-mute definitely saved my ears. Now that i've got it working, can't wait to dive in more and play with it- really awesome work!!!
Seems like a very interesting plugin, it reminds me to the things the Microcosm fx pedal could do only on a totally different way. My only problem is that I cannot get my head around how I am able to mix this with my midi synths or does this only work for samples in my DAW? I don't understand how it would receive the incoming audio signal (yet). Really curious to see where this is going, keep up the creativity in 2024!
@@mooseyard Thanks for the info. Would that work with a multitrack mixer? It would be a great reason to finally try and get Firewire to work in Windows 10
did I just record a single guitar drone note with an E-Bow, processed with Refractions and some SoundToys effect? Yes I did... Thanks for all the hard work!
This started out reminding me of some of the modes of the Microcosm pedal, but you’ve added a lot more direct control. I’m a C++ programmer too, but I’m thinking you could probably have done this in a tiny fraction of the time by using Max or PD, which are specialized languages for audio coding. I don’t know either one myself, but probably even having to learn the language up front would end up being faster. Another question: why does the plug-in need post effects like delay/reverb? Can’t you just chain DAW effects after it?
Wow. Is there a chance something like this might find its way to Push 3. It doesn't do VST's but it does to M4L. Btw I'm a month late to this party. Is there any chance you might reset the clock? I've been a subscriber for a while yet I can't recall your notification.
This is so inspiring! Could you please think about making a small video series on how to code stuff like that? Are you working with Juce or do you simply write c++ code? I Would really love to get an Idea how you can create your own Plugins and not just sample stuff for Kontakt
3:58 so you're saying you're using this syntheziser, whose sound comes from a sample, to be sampled and modified by this sampler software's plugin Great stuff!
That is roughly the same time to make a human so this must be good
“I’ve done it faster” - Victor Frankenstein, probably
@@michaelthompson2363 No, it took several lifetimes to make the monster (one for each source person/animal). :)
@@gutterg0d Took a lifetime to form the monster that was Viktor Frankenstein as well!
the most impressive thing is creating that prototype that works perfectly in only two hours. Pretty good coding.
This desperately needs some STEREO options. Ways to do some stereo widening and ways to control the space of the grains, to separate the behavior of the left and right channels.
People using the plugin for things you hadn't even thought of is the sign of a good product. It must have versatility, which is a strong plus point for any tool. I think I'll be buying this, and I've already thought of some things I'd like to try it out on. Well done!
Your unique mind is a gift from the universe. ✨
This sounds fantastic, and it's great seeing the work/thought process as well!
Very nice David, something completely new on the market. Well done!
Happy purchased! Awesome work. Feels good to support creators who are making their own plugins and effects!
Nice, and well worth the introductory price that I just paid for it. You and Cameron have come up with some wonderful ideas over the years, and you're both obviously quite skilled at what you do. I've seen some of your videos on how to create a Decent Sampler instrument, but somehow I always get a little lost in the coding or sample preparation along the way. I wonder if you would ever consider creating a step-by-detailed-step course for old hippies like myself, using Reaper and some basic coding guidance, which would enable even complete newbies to go from zero to almost hero in Decent Sampler instrument creation. Maybe I'm asking too much, but it's something I'd be willing to pay for, and maybe there are others out there who feel the same way: you can let David and Cameron know in the comments.
;-)
I would be interested in something along those lines too
Awesome plug-in, Dave! Looking forward to grabbing it
That's so cool! I've been waiting for this video ever since seeing Refractions start to appear in your videos; I wasn't sure it was for me but boy was I wrong, it looks (and sounds, duh!) great. Also, if you ever wanted to make an in-depth video/series about writing plugins with Juce, I'd probably even pay for that. Keep up the great work David, and thanks.
Outstanding as always. Purchased.
David this is an absolutely brilliant development and I will be purchasing it today. 👏👏👏🙏🙏🏿🎶
This! It looks like so much fun to play with. Thanks for making it.
very rad! love what you do.
Very cool stuff, great work on it David!
I already loved the sounds that your plugin made, but now having you explain how it works makes me want it even more. I’ve got my eyes on a 1980s yamaha synth on marketplace and I think I’ll buy both, I can already see (hear) that they’ll go well together.
Congratulations, beautiful work!
When I saw your email announcement of this, I purchased it immediately (hadn’t even gotten out of bed yet 😂🤦♂️) cuz I had a gut feeling I’d love it. It’s such a fun and cool plugin. I’ve already used it on a couple of tracks I’m working on, and for the record, it sounds super cool on a trumpet! Thanks for all you do for creative musicians!
Just writing to say. This is my new favorite UA-cam channel. Thank you! Especially the VHS tape episode 🙏
Same here.
Ah, this is really nice and inspiring, awedome!! The sound pallet in your demos reminds me a lot of what I hear coming out of the hologram electronics Microcosm pedal. As opposed to that pedal, though, which comes across as a bit of a black box magic machine, it actually makes sense what is going on in your plugin with the different parameters and how it relates to the sound scapes. I feel like your plugin sits in a very sweet spot between intentionality and happy accidents.
Right after I hit send on this post, I will buy, download, and then explore. Congrats and thank you! I can wait to see what you will create for all of us home base producers next.
Thank you so much, David! Got the plugin this morning and I’m loving it ❤ my ten year old and I even made a quick song with it this evening. Super fun 🎉
love that plugin, it's so much fun on the drums I figured, will play some more with it
Bought this today - super cool. Looking forward to getting to know it.
oh man this is awesome! Very impressive how you were able to create this amazing plugin! I'll have to start saving up for it
Amazing video and plug-in! Thnx for sparking some inspiration
My first bargain of the year, looking forward to using it!
Great work Dave!
This is so lovely!
Amazing and beautiful!
Really nice Job. Well done!❤🎉
You, sir, are a beast!!
This sounds amazing! Next step: making this a physical pedal/device.
This is useful! It's tough to find good stuff in the over-saturated plugin market. The non-stop barrage of plugins turned me off, so I don't buy them anymore and let the DAWless stuff get the most use. This is nice, though.
Its the capitalism of music software: to drive consumption over innovation.
Sounds amazing! Thank you!
Very nice plugin, just bought it and spent two hours enjoying how pads can be transformed (oh the random function...) in super good inspiring softly rhythmic sounds. Applause!
I'm most impressed by how easy C++ (and JUCE) you seem to make ;)
This seems oddly like it overlaps the chase bliss reverse mode c (the reverse up an octave line at the end) but as a plug-in vs an effects pedal. I really enjoyed seeing how it evolved!
I just bought this plugin, and the first thing I did was pair it with the Interlaced Decent Sample pack, and holy crap……Bravo David! Amazing plugin!
so glad you’re enjoying it
this feels like the best birthday gift ever, i can't wait to play around with this once i have the time to!
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL
Great work as always, would love this In pedal form
This Plugin is simply beautiful!
I started learning music production as a hobby a couple of months ago and have been watching a lot of UA-cam guides mostly related to psy trance and techno since that's my main focus at the moment. For some reason the UA-cam algorithm decided I should watch this particular video after I had a couple of drinks tonight, and even though it had nothing in particular to do with the music I've been focusing on I liked the sound so you can thank The Algorithm for at least one of your sales tonight.
Instant buy! Great plugin but also with the money to support everything you do for the music community! Thanks for everything you do for us!
This is really Off Topic, but i've watched quite a couple of your videos lately and just realized you were involved in the creation of Chile la Roja for the 2010 World Cup!! Im from Chile and i really really loved it! I hadnt listened to it in years and it brings back so many good memories!
Cool, looking forward to spending some time with this 👍
My favorite channel!
Wow. Great work, man. Constantly impressed with you and Venus Theory. I’ve committed to sticking with free plugins unless theres a practical application that I need to find without a free option. This is something that absolutely has utility and I love supporting the creative community. I’m gonna jump on this one!
Good stuff man i love seeing programmers also being into making music
This is incredibly rad!😍
This is so innovative and cool!
This thing is pretty killer. Kudos.
Immediately purchased it, this looks amazing and I’m super stoked to start toying with it!!!!
Can’t wait to get my hands on it
So this is essentially the Noire Particle system
Very cool
This is a really powerful plugin, you can make sound landscapes in 1 note now
great job
Bought it and love it!
this is definitely one of the nicest plugins iv seen in a long time,my imagination is running wild here
This is so cool!!!🎉
I named one of my albums 'Refrations' so I think I'm going to have to get this plugin. :)
sounds great ✌️
That's pretty cool! it looks a bit like Beardyman's voice modulator!
well done !
This is amazing
good job, congrats
Awesome and purchased for PC. Would be amazing to have it in AU3 for IOS too if you get time lol. Cheers
Oh man I HAVE to get my hands on this plugin ✧0✧
I love to watch someone who is great at music.
It is even better when this someone is great at telling you stories with valuable information.
When this person is evidently highly intelligent, it gets just incredible to enjoy.
David is such a gem for all of us
Thanks for going over your workflow building plugins, it's always interesting to see how people approach these technical aspects of making music(-tools). Do you always immediately build your plugin ideas in JUCE or do you use something like Max MSP for the first prototypes?
I do use JUCE for prototyping because I know it really well, but I know a lot of people use Max4Live as a prototyping platform
damn that is sooo cooool
Would be cool with a randomize button
Hi Dave! I *adore* these effects (and your work overall) and bought the plugin. I can’t seem to make it work, is there a trouble shooting guide somewhere? Also, I’m new to the synth world so it could be user error - I understood this to be a standalone program so maybe that’s where I went wrong? I’m using the same Keystep you use in this video and it’s hooked up to my computer.
It's not a standalone program. I don't have this (yet) but my understanding is you'll need to use a Digital Audio Workstation with an instrument loaded, and feed the output of that into Refractions.
Any plans on adding an AUv3 version for ipadOS? I’m slowly moving away from using my mac and while ipad is a great place to make music rn, innovative plugins like this are the lifeblood of the platform. I can imagine using this in Drambo, modulating all the parameters with LFOs and noise. Could be fun!
Maybe add a feature that randomizes the pattern from the list after going through it once or twice. I once had a lot of fun using ableton's randomizer with arpeggios to make me feel like I could play a sick guitar solo without effort lol
The ability to just turn any audio into an arpeggio in real time seems kind of trivial at first. But the utility is pretty apparent once you start demonstrating it. You could achieve something similar with a sampler, but it would be pretty tedious to cut up a sample and arrange on the keyboard every time you want to do that. If you want to change the source sound, you have to start all over. This plugin eliminates all that just does it in real time.
Nice work and great idea!
Coincidentally last week I could get a friend of mine interested in sound design with the (toyish but great) Ableton synth intro course website. From my own experience (and yours, it turns out) it is more fun when you have some sequence, arpeggio or even one tone *) running while you experiment or work with the knobs and sliders. However, would I discourage my friend with having to install a DAW or even buy a MIDI keyboard (and audio interface) to start playing with some standalone synths? **). So I went looking for a decent simple (intuitive) standalone foolproof sequencer. To my surprise there hardly aren't any (anymore, I would not advise a noob installing fifteen-twenty year old apps). I also tried some VST hosts, but they require some entry level and some skills/attitude to programs, settings, installing etc. When I saw the thumbnail of this video I was struck, this is exactly what i was looking for! The sequencer part that is. I do not intend to insult you, and am aware I might, but I think it would be great when the sequencer part could be turned into a standalone sequencer you could use to play with (free) standalone VSTs to get people started with sound design?
*) my Akai LPK25 does both last ones, the Keystep does sequences (I have one but I never use it, if feels to clinical to me).
**) I found the terms used often confusing: in my opinion a plugin requires a host (DAW or alike) and is by definition not standalone. About yours I'm no sure, seems to work standalone, but does not explicitly say so in the description but does so in the versions history.
Very (very) nice ! Is there a trial version somewhere ?
Amazing
Would love an IOS version of this… so cool
This plugin looks super, *super* cool. Just wondering, does it come with free updates or will major updates cost money to upgrade? I can only really afford the introductory price for the foreseeable future
if i update it, the updates will definitely be free.
Hi David,
Purchased this earlier and wanted to bring a potential problem to your attention. I'm using it in reaper and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get it to work at first. Every time I tried turning it on with a mic plugged in, it was immediately triggering my "auto mute" function (sound over +18db). Eventually, I disabled the auto-mute and set my headphones on the table in front of me (hah) launched it again and found it was in fact making a reaaaaally loud sound. I figured out it *seems* to be the default setting of the lowpass filter being at max. Once I go into the advance tab, lower the filter, and start monitoring again, it works fine (ie doesnt cause an extremely loud sound/trigger the auto mute) even if I put the filter back upt to max after, but I do have to do this each session I want to use the plug-in.
This may just be a Reaper issue, I haven't tried it with any other DAW's yet, but just wanted to bring it up as the auto-mute definitely saved my ears.
Now that i've got it working, can't wait to dive in more and play with it- really awesome work!!!
I had exactly the same issue
So dope
Seems like a very interesting plugin, it reminds me to the things the Microcosm fx pedal could do only on a totally different way.
My only problem is that I cannot get my head around how I am able to mix this with my midi synths or does this only work for samples in my DAW?
I don't understand how it would receive the incoming audio signal (yet).
Really curious to see where this is going, keep up the creativity in 2024!
You’d run the synth's audio out into your computer and assign it to an audio track in the DAW. Then add this plugin as an effect to that channel.
@@mooseyard Thanks for the info.
Would that work with a multitrack mixer?
It would be a great reason to finally try and get Firewire to work in Windows 10
did I just record a single guitar drone note with an E-Bow, processed with Refractions and some SoundToys effect? Yes I did...
Thanks for all the hard work!
Wow. Beautiful! Any notes on legal stuff like licensing etc?
You’re the best
Gret one!…when you planning to relise it for iOS people?
This would be so cool with vcv rack
No demo version? 🧡
Hi Dave. Will this intriguing plugin get the iOS auv3 treatment?
Would it be possible to be able to resize the GUI? Even in preset percentages such as 120%, 150%, etc?
This started out reminding me of some of the modes of the Microcosm pedal, but you’ve added a lot more direct control.
I’m a C++ programmer too, but I’m thinking you could probably have done this in a tiny fraction of the time by using Max or PD, which are specialized languages for audio coding. I don’t know either one myself, but probably even having to learn the language up front would end up being faster.
Another question: why does the plug-in need post effects like delay/reverb? Can’t you just chain DAW effects after it?
Wow. Is there a chance something like this might find its way to Push 3. It doesn't do VST's but it does to M4L.
Btw I'm a month late to this party. Is there any chance you might reset the clock? I've been a subscriber for a while yet I can't recall your notification.
Could you make a video on making plugins?
is this what would be called a “pitched delay”? it’s cool af
This is so inspiring! Could you please think about making a small video series on how to code stuff like that? Are you working with Juce or do you simply write c++ code? I Would really love to get an Idea how you can create your own Plugins and not just sample stuff for Kontakt
3:58 so you're saying you're using this syntheziser, whose sound comes from a sample, to be sampled and modified by this sampler software's plugin
Great stuff!
that's a cool plugin