Ripple Phaser is the latest release from Minimal Audio, a developer that seems to go from strength to strength (albeit with one recent bump in the road).
Ripple Phaser is available at the introductory price of $29 (usually $49) for a limited time or as part of the All Access subscribe-to-own plan.
In typical Minimal Audio fashion, Ripple Audio is a plugin that offers more than meets the eye. While it can produce a simple phaser effect, it excels in creating much more complex and dramatic movements.
The plugin features seven distinct modes ranging from a classic phaser to ultra-clean or more aggressive effects. The available modes are Classic, Inverted, Clean, Lowpass, Highpass, Bandpass, and Disperse.
The Lowpass/Highpass/Bandpass modes are filters combined with a phaser and, although aggressive, can be very flexible with the right dry/wet blend.
Flexible is probably the best word to describe Ripple Phaser, and it’s flexible in the best way; it makes complex processes simple.
The intuitive interface features a draggable spectrum display that provides instant control over up to 24 notches. The color-coded spectrum analyzer makes it easy to make the right creative decisions.
The main Phaser controls, Bend, Center, and Spread, are underneath the spectrum display, along with a Mod Balance slider controlling the amount of internal modulation sent to the controls mentioned above.
One of the cool things about the draggable display is that you’ll see various parameter knobs move as you drag the peaks, and it’s a very tactile way to work; visually interactive interfaces are also a great way to understand better the impact of these parameters.
The Mod Depth knob on the left controls the amount of stereo movement that is applied. You can remove all stereo movement by setting the Mod Depth to zero, in which case Ripple Phaser is a fantastic tool for creating unique textures.
Ripple Phaser also features an onboard morphing LFO with Rate, Shape (Sine, Triangle, Ramp, Square), Randomize, and Offset.
Also, in typical Minimal Audio fashion, the plugin has an extensive collection of well-thought-out presets (over 70) that help you hit the ground running.
The bump in the road I mentioned above was the ill-advised release of Current on a subscription-only plan.
However, Minimal Audio quickly rectified the situation after the community voiced its stern disapproval (to put it politely).
Despite the shaky launch, I like Minimal Audio plugins, and Current as well. So I am always keen to see what’s next.
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Ripple Phaser is available in 64-bit AU, VST, VST3, and AAX formats for macOS (10.9 upwards) and Windows (10 upwards).
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CoopMusic247
onMinimal audio’s multiband compressor and chorus are my most recent replacement updates to my tool set. Both are great as is Rift and Cluster delay though they get much less use. Current is gonna need me to give it a few more years til I really use it up cause I still am finding new stuff with Serum, MPowerSynth, Pigments, Synthmaster 2/3, and the Arturia collection… and I accidentally got Avenger too.
obo
onIn a couple of years, you’ll have more synths that require your attention (I totally understand, I’ve passed on Current as well!). I’d recommend Aalto and Strobe 2 if you don’t have them already! LOL
Still, fantastic developer!
Coopmusic247
onOh no, I did get Current a while back on sale. Presently, my synth are:
MPowerSynth
Current
Avenger 2
Massive
Triton
Xpand2
Serum
Mini
Pigments
Vital
DX7
Visual Synth
Phase Plant
Analog Lab
Zenology
SynthMaster 1,2, and 3
Sylenth
Korg M1
Alchemy (vintage gem)
Arp 2600
Arp Odyssey
Axon
Buchla Easel
Bx_Oberhausen
Bass Station
Captain Epic Series
CUBE
CMI
CS-80
CZ V
DS Thorn
Emulator II V
Just all the Arturia stuff except the last update
All the Native Instruments stuff
Iris (vintage gem)
All the Korg stuff except the last update
TyrellN6
U-NO-62-TAL
Unfiltered Audio Lion
Orb’s series
a bunch of freebies
Visual Synth
The Mangle
And seriously so much like granular oddities like gRainbow or RIBS, and it just goes on with so many folders of presets. I sometimes just go and try to spend all my Splice points picking up presets.
Those two you mentioned however are not in here and I’m pretty good about staying away from the modular world since that’s an addiction I’m doing well at not indulging in. Still gotta actually make songs. lol.
Michael Jackson
onDreamtronic Synth V Studio Pro + SOLARIS Voice bank on sale for $161.09
This should be interesting to play with. Looks like I’ll have put some block time on the calendar to learn this.
Already doing 1 hour Melodics sessions to learn fingerjamming.
Not bad for a 66 year old fossil :-)
As far as synths, I have a TON of paid and free ones. After getting FM8, Carbon Electra, Ascension, and Midnight for really dirt cheap, I am done.
Steffen
onNo trial, no demo.
I’m wary of this one. The videos don’t show enough.
Peter
onI got Minimal Audio’s Hybrid Filter for free some time back and it’s a seriously powerful filter plugin. One of the coolest features is the ability to set the filters to lock to semitones. With any number of the comb filters you can set up keytracking modulation in your DAW and get some realy awesome physical modeling things happening, of course only monophonic, but still really excellent.