This gets even worse when oversampling is enabled. You have to be careful to not use this plug-in on a source that has sends though, because it causes quite obvious phase rotation in the highs. It's nice to have the option of controlling the amount of even and odd harmonics yourself and the oversampling filter seems to be very effective in removing aliasing. I hope you enjoy Exciter :)ĭownload StarterKit.zip for just the basicsĪll this is free and open source under the MIT license, brought to you by my Patreon.The saturation itself sounds really good and the plug-in does what it says it's supposed to do. I’ve not tried that so you can be the first. You can put it in the middle of uLaw, if you like. You can get tones like that out of Exciter, if you like. And of course this is Airwindows, you can crank it on stuff that doesn’t have much to excite, and blast it on bright stuff to make a distinct form of gritty evil distortion for effect.Ī lot of the stuff I like in analog is when transistors and chips are misused and freaking out. I’m pretty sure it’ll consistently sound good (not quite natural, but this is ‘late seventies heightened detail’ tone here, it doesn’t have to sound natural) if you’re careful to not crank it too much. Distort it with a soft clip (I use a sin() function, and some real-world examples used a 4049 hex inverter chip, which does a very similar super soft distort when used as an audio effect: it’s the chip that made up Craig Anderton’s ‘Tube Sound Fuzz’ circuit back in the day, and I still have lots of these chips to play with :D ) Then, once you’ve distorted this bandpass, add just only the distortion elements back into the full bandwidth signal, by subtracting the bandpass again.Įxciter lets you adjust the frequency you’re using, and dial in the amount of effect you want. The effect works like this: get a sharp band filter going to extract certain kinds of information. If you’re hearing obvious crunch, you’ve already got it cranked up higher than real-world examples would let you do. To use it like a normal exciter, fine-tune it so that it’s just barely making transients ‘pop’. You’ll find that as you apply the effect, it’ll start off sounding like it does nothing, gets more and more intense and then suddenly blows up into crazy distortion. As I usually do, I’ve extracted the guts of the effect and then adapted it so it can be used normally or exaggerated. Note that this is NOT a clone of hardware, or any particular brand. The Steely Dan album ‘The Royal Scam’ wouldn’t be the same without the Exciter effect. This plugin isn’t my usual jam, but I’ve been listening to this type of effect all my life. TL DW: Exciter is an Aural Exciter plugin that can be both subtle and extreme.
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