the Cymatics origin plugin claims to make your tracks and clips sound
like they were recorded on a old tape machine or on vintage gear now this
is a very cool free lofi plugin but does it deliver on that vintage sound well
in this video we're going to figure out what it sounds like and what it can add to your tracks
i'm Zane welcome to audio tech tv where it's my goal to help you conquer the tech so you can
unleash your creative beast now i've included a link down in the description to this
very cool free lofi plugin case you want to grab it for yourself it's available on mac and windows
now let's give this Cymatics Origin a quick listen then we'll go over some of the details and do some
more listening in just a bit all right so here's what the clip sounds like without origin on it
just a basic 808 drum sound now let's add Origin on there and this is the
default setting i haven't changed any of the settings this is how it loads up
so that's pretty cool it either sounds like old tape or maybe an old record something like that it
it is pretty cool let's play around with some of the settings and give it some more listens
so there's some of the presets right there and as you can hear it's not for every situation but
every now and then you might find a use for this either just on a clip or on a section and maybe
sometimes on your entire project now let's have a look at the user interface and as you can see it's
a very nice looking user interface very well laid out making it easy for you to adjust the dials
and really dial in your own sound and you can actually resize the user interface if you want
there's a large and we'll leave it at large for now for this video
and if you click here you can access the presets you can save your own presets and load different
ones in there now let's look at the actual dials on this thing so first you have your
main resample frequency dial in the middle and obviously this is the main part of your sound
because this is the biggest dial so they really wanted you to focus on this one so what this dial
does it's a bit crusher or a resampler and if you turn it all the way to the right like this
it's going to have the least amount of effect so it's not really going to affect your clip at all
turn it all the way to the left like that and it's going to affect your sound quite a bit so
i'm just going to play the clip and i'll slowly go from here to here and we'll hear how it sounds
and you did hear when it was all the way to the right there was an effect on there
that's just because of some of these other settings that are set up so let's just turn
all of these down and now we'll play it
now one thing that you might have noticed while we were moving this dial around
is it introduces some artifacts into the sound now they've added a way to get rid
of this with these pre and post buttons down at the bottom here so i'm just going
to dial it back a bit and we'll start with this disabled and then we'll enable them
all right so it does get rid of those artifacts and it kind of makes it sound like
you're under water or something like that
it is a cool effect and of course you dial it back a bit and it's not going to be as effective
and you'll also notice i was playing with this high pass filter right here
and this is set to 200 hertz so it takes off quite a bit of low end when you enable it now
if you want to roll off some of the low end but not as much as 200 hertz and you still
want to have this effect then you could maybe put this on a parallel track and
do some parallel processing with it which could be really cool and add another great
sound so let's just check out this high pass filter quickly and you can hear how that sounds
so you can hear it takes off quite a bit of low end so you may want to play around with that a
bit but if you're just using it as like a little effect within your song like in the middle or
something that could be a cool sound to go for right there if you're enjoying this Cymatics
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Origin plugin all right now let's look at some of these other controls here we have the saturation
knob and this gives you that classic sound of driving vintage gear so there's two modes for
the saturation and you can control that with this switch here there's the tube mode and then
there's the drive mode so let's just give this a listen and we'll see what both of those modes do
so you can hear each one has its own little character and it does add a nice subtle
saturation to your tracks now let's look at the movement knob which is right underneath it here
and the movement control emulates the pitch changes when audio gets
played through an old tape machine and again there are two modes to this there's random
and then there's the fixed wow and flutter setting now with the random setting when you
increase the movement it randomly changes the pitch and the more you increase it
the faster it will do that and the more intense the effect becomes so let's give this a listen now
so you can hear it's a very subtle effect but it does add that sort of vintage character
now we'll switch it over to the fixed wow and flutter
and this is similar to the sound found on old reel-to-reel machines
when you increase this it increases the wow and flutter effect so let's try that out now
again it's a subtle effect but it does add to that vintage sound
so now let's have a look at our noise control right here and if you click
on this section of the noise right here you can see you have various settings that you can choose
from so you have cassette settings micro cassette reel to reel and vinyl settings and there's
a few options for each except for the micro cassette so let's just set it to reel to reel
2 and you'll notice right here you have a switch and what this does is it either places the noise
before the resampler or after the resampler so it gives a different sound on either side of it and
let's just have a listen to that so you can hear what it sounds like either way so this is before
as you heard it's different either side you have it on so play around with that see what works best
for your particular track and obviously when you increase the dial it increases the amount of
noise that gets added now let's just listen to some of the other noises that are in here
so i'm gonna set it at the middle section here so it's going to be quite noisy
and we'll get an idea of which one each and we'll get an idea of what each one sounds like
so
now let's move on to the chorus section here and this is based
on the juno 60 chorus that was found on old juno synthesizers and this little switch here
switches between the two modes that were available on that old chorus that was on that synth
so obviously when you increase this it increases the amount of chorus let's give it a try
and one thing that the manual says for this is to set the resample to midway
like we have it right here and then just adjust the chorus and everything
will make sense and that's sort of what i just did there but let's
just try it again quickly to see what it means by everything's going to make sense
so it does give it a nice kind of vintage stereo sound when you adjust it this way and
overall i think that the Cymatics Origin plugin does give you that
sort of vintage sound that you might be looking for and it gives you reel-to-reel vinyl
cassette tape and that sort of thing plus you have saturation movement and you can really
take control of your sound with this and have a lot of fun by going with just a little bit
or you can take it to the extremes now if you want to check out the Cymatics free reverb plugin
click the video on the screen right now or click the one under it to see what youtube recommends
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