Steinberg Announces GRM Tools Volume 2
January 23, 2001Steinberg Media Technologies AG introduced GRM Tools Volume 2, the second collection
of four unique creative effect processors for PC and Mac VST from the Musical
Research Group (GRM) at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (Paris). This volume
add extremely flexible high quality sound designer tools to the VST system, opening
whole new sound worlds and fits perfectly to the successful first volume.
Here the plugins in detail: Reson consists of up to 128 resonant high-pass,
low-pass or band-reject filters, each of which resonates a single frequency and
produces an ensemble of very soft resonances in an input signal. Thus your drum
loop for example might take over a melodic component of your song if you wish...
Doppler simulates the effect of a sound moving towards or away from you similar
to an ambulance passing by. But Doppler does far more: It can also obtain a wide
variety of unusual effects by manipulating the 2-Dimensional Potentiometer in
unconventional ways.
Freeze lets you select a 3-second sample from an audio source and create up
to 32 loops within that 3-second sample. You control the number of simultaneous
loops, timing of the replay, duration and synchronization of loops, and the speed
of replay. The possible sample variations are infinite.
Delay features a group of up to 128 variable delays, each controlled in its
amplitude and
timing. In the stereo version of this plug-in, the delays are assigned alternatively
to the left
and right channels. Like the first volume, all four processors offer the same
interactive, integrated preset handling. It allows settings to be assigned to
one button in order to be reselected with a single click. The key lies in the
delay parameter which defines the time frame in milliseconds or automatically
synchs to tempo* during which the settings from the one preset morph over into
the other. All time relevant parameters like delay time or LFO speed can be adjusted
in musical units. Complex parameter mixes allowing sensational sound movements
are created in no time at all. Possible applications for GRM-Tools: Sound Design,
film and television post production, dance, electronic and experimental music
productions, jingle and broadcast effect creations For more information, visit their web site at www.steinberg.net. | 
