Introducing Altar (and looking for Windows testers)
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Hello friends.
For the past few months I have been quietly working on a new guitar amp VST plugin, "Altar". The goal was to create something state-of-the-art, with a feature-set you'd only find in a $200 product.
...and make it completely free and open source:
I am currently in need of testers and feedback for the Windows version (MacOS and hopefully standalone later). Please try to break the plugin, drag the modules around, create and load presets, make use of the Cab Designer and NAM models if you have them, and report any and all issues back here.
DSP feedback is also appreciated, I'm not necessarily 100% happy with the sound of each module yet and will be tweaking them more over the next few weeks.
(There's currently 3 cab IR's and no presets, the full release will have all of that included.)
Download (Windows): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JddFk-sZ6fsUBTXkyG58giAxkdGZKBhG/view?usp=sharing
Features:
- Full suite of high quality DSP modules, which can be re-ordered by dragging.
- NAM support (writeup on this soon).
- Cab-Designer to create your own impulse responses.
- Realtime transpose and sub-octave layer with Rubberband.
- Multiple modes per modules, like Reverse Delay, Glitch and Circuit-Bending.
- In built utilities like Tuner and Click, Pre and Postprocess and output Limiter.
I look forward to hearing back from everyone, thanks! 🥳
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downloading right now, looks amazing bro!!
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@iamlamprey Mac user here! ha. Looks great! lmk when you release the Mac version!
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@iamlamprey checking this out soon.
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@pokemonguy
First noise gate seems very unnatural attack and release times. Compared this to nam player gate, pod farm 2, nerualdsp stuff, and tse x50.Tuner is giving off random information, or just innacurate also compared plugins i listed above to my guitar is correctly set up with an evertune bridge.
Its not loading nam profiles correctly instead turning into a giant weird phase mess.
The main drive tone sounds like a weird huge like square wave and doesnt not feel natural to my ears or fingers, best way i can describe is like 1998 Line 6 AMP FARM TDM kinda vibes on insane mode.
I tested it in studio one
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@pokemonguy once i can solve those issues first i think i can start evauluating its pitch shifting and other tone things better. like "chug"
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@pokemonguy Thanks for the quick turnaround, I'll add those to the list.
Tuner is giving off random information, or just innacurate also compared plugins i listed above to my guitar is correctly set up with an evertune bridge.
Its not loading nam profiles correctly instead turning into a giant weird phase mess.
These might be related, what samplerate & buffersize are you using? I'll grab the 30-day Studio One trial and see if I can recreate it on my end.
other tone things better. like "chug"
Chug is just a single band compressor for the low end to prevent mud buildup when palm-muting. It's more of a mixing convenience than something to shape the tone with. Pick works similarly, but is an expander for the "pick" attack frequencies to bring out some of the transient.
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@pokemonguy Also would you mind sending the NAM file over? Or linking to it
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@iamlamprey i assumed on the chug was multiband. Im very experianced guitar player/engineer more then anything when relating to audio and have probly played every guitar amp sim known to man, and have owned every modeler since pod xt rack.
I will try to make obs videos of my issues if i get time to do so for ya.
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@pokemonguy I just know im the only dude i know that will goof around and make stuff work for me when it comes to amp sims. 99% of people i know would rather spend 1-200$ for something that simply works instantly. Most guitar dudes are guitar dudes, not computer boi's like us.
So they are either paying for convienience or hitting the Warez sites.
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@pokemonguy said in Introducing Altar (and looking for Windows testers):
have probly played every guitar amp sim known to man, and have owned every modeler since pod xt rack.
Glad to have you here then
I will try to make obs videos of my issues if i get time to do so for ya.
That would be super helpful, I just tried your NAM files and they work for me in Ableton so it might be a Studio One issue.
