3 Sound Design Techniques with Lunacy's BEAM Plugin

[@silspok]

Bitwig and/or Studio One users probably don't need this. Bitwig - FX Layer/Multiband devices, Studio One Pro - Splitter device + your surely already existing extensive FX plugin collection offers much more sound design options. :)

[@DashGlitch]

Do you own any third party plugins? because if you have bitwig you don't technically need any, but the big thing is the workflow here. It's not as easy/intuitive to do these settings. Also Does bitwig or studio one have an actual dedicated granular effect? nope actually not.

[@nitroanilinmusic]

Realistically, Bitwig users probably don't need anything. I'm not even in Bitwig and I understand how bonkers the Grid is. It all depends on how much effort you want to put into setting it up

[@silspok]

@@nitroanilinmusic Actually for something similar to Beam, you don't need to use FX Grid, because you have stock device FX Layer, which splits the signal to as many layers as you want. This is normal split. You can also use Multiband device(frequency split) in combination with FX Layer to go even further without touching FX Grid. I agree with Dash that it is not as straightforward as Beam, because it does not give you that "tree" overview, but you can do much much more than with Beam. In Studio One you have Splitter device, which you can use on insert or send and it actually gives you that tree FX chain overview, from which you can directly control gains of the individual branches, decide between normal, channel or frequency split and also expose many controls of plugins used in chain directly to the interface without the need to open the individual plugin gui. And of course you can use any plugin from your library.

[@silspok]

@@DashGlitch Yes, I own third party plugins. You wrote that "with Bitwig you don't technically need any 3rd party plugins". Technically maybe, practically you need 3rd party plugins, because with stock plugins or whatever you try to do in the grid, you could not come close to the sound and nuances of some 3rd party plugins and I think that you know it. Bitwig nitehr Studio One studio have granular effects, but is Lunacy granular fx really so good in comparsion to Fragments, MGranularMB, Portal?

[@DashGlitch]

Yea that’s what I’m saying. But also grid or even bitwig native devices don’t have a granular engine like suggested in OP

[@Ninjjadog]

There goes another $59 outta my bank account 😂😂❤❤❤

[@mosermichael4404]

hmm. also an interesting plugin.. I have to test it!😉 But I got the new one from Polyverse. Filterverse.. the part is awesome! ultra creative...💥😱😍 are somehow similar but then again not... 🤔

[@DashGlitch]

They both contain a filter but that’s about as close as they get

[@firiozifirion4718]

Waiting for it so i can be turned even more gay than i usually am.

[@xamxamxamxa]

❤

[@charlotteathena]

the parallel octave stacking sounds so nice :D

[@DashGlitch]

yep! especially with the reverse and spray for sparkles

[@Beatsbasteln]

it's remarkable how they managed to reduce the concept of granular synthesis to just those few well-designed macro controls. i'm personally more of a fan of those nerdier kinds of granular effects, but i gotta admit i can see how this plugin can be used now

[@Phantom_Communique]

Just who I wanted to see demo this. I’ve had cube since it came out and really like it. By the way Mr Glitch, what kind of pc are you running? I’ve been thinking about building a new workstation for audio and was curious.

[@DashGlitch]

thanks for tuning in! So I recently upgraded my system it was about a decade overdue LOL I now run an i9-13900, 64gb RAM, some NVME drives and a GTX4070 (mainly for video stuff though not audio)

[@bestkoreanjesus]

Looking forward to seeing this. Always learning something from you

[@ViRavenMusic]

plugin looks like a video game or a magical spell 🪄

[@DashGlitch]

kamehameha!!

[@justinwilliam4644]

It's got cool U.I Actually sounds pretty cool

[@justinwilliam4644]

So would fl studio substitute be patcher? To chain effects (using pitcher or 3rd party like halftime)?

[@DashGlitch]

Sure, if you already have some kind of granular and convolution third party effects you could totally set it up like this.

[@Alckemy]

Sick sounds!

[@DashGlitch]

thanks brother!

[@cartoondesignrevealed]

Looking forward to this technique ! Thank you for your expertise, Mr. Dash!!🎉

[@DashGlitch]

My pleasure!

[@DaveChips]

I'm buying gtx 4080 soon... For my music production 😅

[@DashGlitch]

lmao

[@Rio-uv1gs]

Efx Fragments, Portal..or it's something else..

[@DashGlitch]

kinda similar but a lot more focused on the convolution and granular and routing network, so it gets a bit deeper than those

[@BrainDriverChannel]

Looks (and sound) really nice! Do you know if there is a demo version? It seems there is nothing on their website...

[@DashGlitch]

Unfortunately there is no demo, I did ask about that myself and they said try it out and if you're not happy they will offer a full refund within 14 days - no questions asked

[@BrainDriverChannel]

@@DashGlitch haaa i see...Arff well anyway i will certainly finish by adding it in the basket haha! Thanks mate

[@psybursonic]

Excellent demo! Thanks Dash 🙏

[@DashGlitch]

My pleasure!

[@Robert_Babicz]

thank you

[@DashGlitch]

You're welcome Mr. Acid!

[@anyme3046]

Sorry this is off topic Dash but do you have any tutorials or point me in the right direction for lab 4 candyman style leads sounds how I could achieve this style sounds

[@cvwoodworkdesign2835]

top man

[@thegeenius]

love this thing so far,, thanks for the thorough breakdown and usage ideas..-- appreciated

[@DashGlitch]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@AirArtStudiosOfficial]

Doesn’t sound very open to my ears, could be KZbin, no demo available on site that I could find

[@DashGlitch]

Open?

[@maxdavidoffgrey]

Awesome demonstration! 🙌

[@DashGlitch]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@snowandcoal]

New Absynth?

[@DashGlitch]

It's an effect :)

[@davidpax]

Sounds great. Can you draw feedback loops between effects in the diagram, or is it a straight left to right sound flow with feedback only possible inside the individual effects?

[@DashGlitch]

For now there's no feedback, but in my chats with the dev I do seem to remember him mentioning they're working on a feedback node, although I could have dreamt that so don't quote me :)

[@va941]

Do you know if there is an option to stop the animation?

[@Italliving]

you don't like the beam?

[@gutterg0d]

@@Italliving It's just fluff. Wastes CPU/GPU cycles.

[@DashGlitch]

you can reduce the load, there are 3 gfx settings

[@va941]

@@Italliving not about liking, but about using system resources for un-necessary flasgy graphics.

[@Italliving]

@@va941i figured when i drop the reply or it would be resource related , not sure if that will be a huge difference with or without , nevertheless good point

[@Austin4098]

Perfect Thanks

[@DashGlitch]

You're welcome!