Wobbles
Wobbles is a free-ware vibrato plugin for Mac OSX 10.4 and higher. The effect features adjustable shape, depth and speed. Chorus and phaser type effects can also be achieved by using the dry/wet knob. It has not been widely tested, so please let me know if you have problems! If there is interest in this plugin then I might update it with a couple more features (tempo syncing, custom LFO shapes).
I scrounged up some crappy recordings (plus the amen break) to demonstrate with:
Clean Guitar: Original | Wobbled 1 | Wobbled 2
Distorted Guitar: Original | Wobbled
Synth: Original | Wobbled
Drums: Original | Wobbled
DOWNLOAD WOBBLES 1.0.1: VST (Recommended) | Audio Unit
Change Log:
1.0.1:
-Changed depth and speed knobs to be linear instead of logarithmic in the AU release. This prevents a glitch in the SonicBirth framework.
-Changed the SonicBirth framework version from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1
1.0.0:
-Initial release
Comments
good work, but can you add an
good work, but can you add an option where the playback speed is not changed. i think that's how most vibratos function.
May be added
That option might very well be added in the future. The effect is called "Wobbles" because it was originally meant to emulate a "wobbly" record playing back at an uneven (oscillating) speed. It is simply an oscillating delay. Many people use it with a fairly small depth or speed, in which case the playback speed change is not very noticeable. Thanks for your feedback.
Windows version?
Hi, the wave examples files are nice, nothing to do for windows users like me?
Nope
Sorry bud, unless I create the plug-in a completely different way I can't make it available for Windows. There are free vibrato plug-ins for Windows out there already though, I think.
Thanks!
Thanks, nice one. Tempo sync would be lovely...keep up the good work. Just curious, why is the vst "recommended"?
Oops
Sorry, I should really have put the reason for the recommendation on this page:
The VST version has logarithmic speed and depth knobs, meaning that they are less sensitive in the lower regions and more sensitive in the higher regions. This of allows for better fine-tuning in the lower regions. In my opinion this is where fine-tuning is most useful. Very good for getting slight vibratos that don't overpower the input's character too much.
The original AU version didn't work for some people. This was because of a bug in the framework with the logarithmic knobs. I don't have control over the framework so I had to make the knobs in the AU version linear.
That's the only difference now. Thanks for the feedback!