JS Transformer

Hello, has anyone coded some transformer style saturation/distortion yet? Something like that ? Thanks Is someone interested in doing this?

Stillwell's badbuss mojo is somewhat a hint in that directions... well... sort of. There's a thread on GS about building a circuit using plugin components that is interesting in this regard.

Witti's JSFX pack has a lot of nice tubey distortions

Assuming you want the result, this guy has some pretty amazing tape, transformer, tube and leveling amp emulation VSTs. I recently added the whole package to my suite of mastering plugins. Free! Download Descriptions/screenshots If you're looking for the experience of designing and coding a transformer emulation, can't help you there...

As much as I love the Variety of Sound plugins... I don't think we should be recommending them to any new users at this point without a big "at your own risk" warning. They're old, unmaintained, 32-bit only, and are known to have some major issues with being bridged to 64-bit systems. Even with Reaper's compatibility features turned on, one of them crashing can happily take down every VoS plugin in a session - and you can't fix it without reloading.

Solarfall, Did you find a solution? Jeremy

just curious, why a JSFX ?

Agreed. Plus, (for me) I’ve become so used to sliders that I can’t even use any 3rd party plugins with knobs... edit: have you tried True Iron ? that one was pretty easy to reverse engineer and build with JSFX...

The best idea I could find for transformer saturation was to integrate (low pass), saturate, then differentiate (hi pass). That's easy enough, but most simple ways will require makeup gain. In the end, it's not significantly different from the sidechain distortion that I mentioned above. I've been meaning to to make this into a single "black box" type plugin with maybe one slider, but ReaEQ is more efficient than any JS low pass, and I'm cool with using two plugs instead of one.