The same thing I've begged for every time: a channel strip. You guys could do it right, with some serious AD character.

I know URS already makes mind-blowingly great shit. The problem is that their price-point borders on insanity (for most of us).

posted July 21, 2009 by TicTacShutUp

A looper plug-in would be my request. A record - on, record off button, sound on sound, long loop time (say up to a minute or more) , reverse facility, maybe chuck in a little saturation. Sorted.

posted July 22, 2009 by paul

Limiter with a twist or vocoder with a twist.
I like the idea of a freq modulator also.

posted July 22, 2009 by afewster

Massively long delay lines are always what I am wishing I had on any piece of audio that I am working on. That and a tracking EQ with a quick and efficient UI. I refuse to pay dongle company prices for an EQ plugin on moral and ethical grounds. Every EQ in software is essentially the same at it's core, so I cannot justify spending a couple of hundred bucks on the same EQ that's is in Live or Sonar with (add company name)'s exciter/warmer added in. I would on the other hand pay $50 in a heartbeat for one that was easy and elegant to use. It doesn't need to be (and preferably wouldn't be) modeled after any particular hardware model. Nice and clinical with an interface that is as intuitive and simple as the old consoles. I can add my own grit or sweetening later. I also second the idea of a collection of AD "mastering" plugins. That would probably make me grin all fucking week. The mastering EQ might also turn into my go to tracking EQ, thus two birds one stone. And definitely fill that "instruments" tab, but on your own schedule. I've got enough soft synths to do me fine right now anyway. It's quite easy to have too many synths. Now reverbs on the other hand...

-WGP

posted July 22, 2009 by wgparham

Vodocer +1, but please with a "free inputs", no internal synths.

Eventide 8000 +1 :-D

How about a sort-of-a-RoboVox or a Robovoxalyzer (input human voice, output kraftwerkian monsters)? ;-)

I personally am not too keen on stutter fx or reordering or devineisms, every attempt to create such a plugin has always been quite - well, overpriced and overmarketed underachievement. They just sound bad and aren't musically (groovally?) feasible, all of them sounding like beat-deaf 10 year old had spent too long a time with a cracked audio editor. Or suffering from strange UIs. (Replicant's "inner circle" still confuses me every now and then, for instance. I probably use it not too often, I'm afraid.)

Most of the stststutttererers require LOTS of work to get the groove going and ststuttering and when it's done by then you'd done it by hand - only better. The best take UI-wise (IMHO) so far is Virus TI's Atomizer (just press down the keys and wiggle the wheels). Sound-wise... well, that's another story.

posted July 22, 2009 by Peppe

I haven't read the 10 pages of comments, but as spittingangels already has written, I'd too would also like to see a Vocoder.

Can you have it done by next Friday so I can use it on my gig?

posted July 22, 2009 by Spirou

I'd really like to see an AD take on a classic Vocoder, somehow no software take has really nailed the genre and hasn't really satisfied. I think AD could really make a screamer...

posted July 22, 2009 by krell

Like paco and johan said, what I'm in need of is something like a Synare 3, something that can accept various midi controls to affect sounds and also work with the existing standard sorts of riddim things.

posted July 22, 2009 by Downpressor

I'd love to see a nice frequency shifter with modulation and the dubstation delay-block. Sean's algorithm from BS2 sounds great, but BS2 is a little heavy on CPU to fire up when you just need one section.

I think you're wrong about spring reverb btw Chris. I agree that most of the commercial attempts so far are pretty terrible, but there's ongoing academic work which is starting to get very close to a decent real-time model. I think there will be a good attempt at a commercial product in the next couple of years.

posted July 22, 2009 by jngpng

WGP said "Every EQ in software is essentially the same at it's core, so I cannot justify spending a couple of hundred bucks on the same EQ that's is in Live or Sonar with (add company name)'s exciter/warmer added in."

You apparently have never heard URS's EQs. Or Waves' API emulations. There's no comparison between them and the stock EQs on any of the DAWs out there.

There is a huge difference between a great EQ and an okay EQ. That's why I want AD to make me a channel strip. :)

posted July 22, 2009 by TicTacShutUp