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Vintage Effects Suite
Plug-ins: CORVEX, ECOX, FILTOX
This suite enhances the repertoire of your sound editing program with
chorus/flanger, delay, and filter plug-ins. CORVEX, ECOX and FILTOX are each
based on the same basic handling principle: as required, a modulator (LFO)
controls almost all knobs accessible via the "frontplate".
This very easy yet highly effective principle enables an almost inexhaustible
supply of forms for sound design from subtle to crazy distortion effects. For
example, on normal guitar choruses: with CORVEX you can have the sound
travel through the room by changing a few modulation settings, with ECOX you
can reinvigorate old tape echoes, and with FILTOX you can add more power to
weaker drum loops.
In the following, we present the individual effects of this suite and describe
what the three devices have in common by using examples from CORVEX,
especially in relation to the handling of the modulation section and the
modulation targets.
CORVEX – chorus/flanger
When referring to the chorus and the flanger effects in CORVEX, we aren't
discussing only one of the two effects, but also the variations between them
that go beyond the standard concept.
A chorus generates the typical "floating" sound as known from guitar sounds
or synthesizer pads. You can add acoustic "depth" to an instrument to add
more power to the sound or to create the illusion that multiple instances of it
are present.
The chorus sound is created via the so-called Doppler effect. You've probably
noticed this phenomenon in everyday life: the sound of an approaching
ambulance sounds higher than when it is moving away.