TriTone Digital ColorTone Freebie

[Ben Logan]

Hey Everyone,

I remember a while back some of us were asking UA for a \"preamp modeler.\" The idea got mixed reviews from forum members - many of whom said that this wouldn't work as an \"after effect\" because a preamp imparts its characteristic warmth or quality in the signal chain before going to disk or tape.

Nonetheless, I'm excited to get home and try this ColorTone deal out. It's convolution based. This should make cAPSLOCK happy!

Check it out, if you like:

http://www.tritonedigital.com/colortone.htm

It's FREE.

 

[cAPSLOCK]

Its pretty interesting, though I have done little with it to judge it's usefulness.

One tip. To get it to sing turn the input up (after turning the output down for the sake of your ears/monitors).


cAPS

 

[boody]

colortone is quite cool but...

PHASETONE is the bomb! The eq tool on hopeless sources 8)

 

[Ben Logan]

I tried Colortone last night. Not up to UA standards IMO. Then again, it is a freebie, so I'm sounding a bit spoiled here.

I might find a use for it, but, on the whole, it seems to thin out the sound too much.

 

[Stag]

Try the Pro version, it is possible to load IR from any kind of gear and then tweak it to taste,
Tritone and a few more plug developers rendered UAD cards redundant IMO.

I can´t wait for next gen plugs coded without carying a single bit without CPU hit.

 

[NuSkoolTone]

Bah, MAC ONLY! :evil:

 

[taylor]

color tone PRO is absolutely amazing.. the forums has IRs posted from a huge array of sources... neve, focusrite, ssl, trident, etc... really nice.... and it's pretty easy to make your own.

a no-brainer plug if you're looking for something to \"analog\" up your digital.

 

[Ben Logan]

a no-brainer plug if you're looking for something to "analog" up your digital.

Really? I haven't tried ColorTone pro, just the freebie. I was a little disappointed, because it seems to thin out the sound in the same way loading a preamp IR into a convolution program like SIR does. What is better about ColorTone though, is that there seems to be way less phasiness associated with the process. That's a big improvement, but ColorTone's sound just doesn't get me excited. Maybe I need to play with it more.

 

[neil wilkes]

There is always Voxengo's CurveEQ with it's Vintage Gear impulses built in.
Or the AnalogFluxSuite, with a basic 2 channel convolution tool ready for loading up whatever IR you have in your collection.

 

[Ben Logan]

Thanks Neil. I'm going to give that Voxengo EQ a try. I'm a fan of Pristine Space (their Convolution Reverb plug). I didn't know that this particular EQ has implulses built in. Interesting.

I demo'ed the Voxengo Anaflux Suite when it came out a few months back. I wasn't too impressed with what the \"Tape-Bus\" did to the sound.

Perhaps one of the pitfalls of Tape Emu in general is that, if you're like me, your expectations for \"magic-bullet\" transformation of the recordings you've made in your garage (vs. pro studio) shoot through the roof.

That said though, UA has been one of the few producers of plugins that have caused me to step back and say, \"Ok - now here is a tangible marked improvement over what I was using previously\" - a difference in quality of my mix that someone other than me might even perceive.

 

[ambrose]

colourtone really didn't cook my biscuit. The sound takes on colour, but for me it also comes out without a certain amount of the resolution it had in the first place. I guess nice analog doesn't do this.

 

[Tony Ostinato]

For 5 years theres always been someone saying some other plugins were as good.

I applaud these award seeking plugins, tho most have been forgotten.

 

[Phil Chamney]

Tritone and a few more plug developers rendered UAD cards redundant IMO.

Does a Ford make a GM "redundant"?

I can´t wait for next gen plugs coded without carying a single bit without CPU hit.

This isn't even a sentence, so I have no idea what you are trying to say.

Let me guess, you are St@g on the Cubase forums....

 

[Stag]

Tritone and a few more plug developers rendered UAD cards redundant IMO.

Does a Ford make a GM "redundant"?

I can´t wait for next gen plugs coded without carying a single bit without CPU hit.

This isn't even a sentence, so I have no idea what you are trying to say.

Let me guess, you are St@g on the Cubase forums....

what i tried to tell you is UAD plain sucks, is that allrigth to you mr.??? :roll:
When they came out they were as powerfull as a PIII, now a P4 is 4 times more powerfull than one of those problem chasers... talk about redundant??
BTW i don´t know WTF you are, please don´t tell me i have already my share of wanabe geniuses booked up for a long time.

 

[Phil Chamney]

Exactly what I thought.
You don't know the meaning of the word redundant, and you seem to be the same warm gentleman 'St@g' from cubase.net.
Have a nice life.

 

[Akis]

Please, keep the tones down.

Stag, my recent testing showed me that a UAD-1 is 2-4 times as powerful as my X2 4400. That was pretty un-scientific, though, so keep that in mind.

 

[Phil Chamney]

Please, keep the tones down.

No, I'll leave, you keep the arrogant oaf.

 

[Paul Woodlock]

Tritone and a few more plug developers rendered UAD cards redundant IMO.

Does a Ford make a GM "redundant"?

I can´t wait for next gen plugs coded without carying a single bit without CPU hit.

This isn't even a sentence, so I have no idea what you are trying to say.

Let me guess, you are St@g on the Cubase forums....

what i tried to tell you is UAD plain sucks, is that allrigth to you mr.??? :roll:
When they came out they were as powerfull as a PIII, now a P4 is 4 times more powerfull than one of those problem chasers... talk about redundant??
BTW i don´t know WTF you are, please don´t tell me i have already my share of wanabe geniuses booked up for a long time.

Some strange logic going on here IMHO Of course you're entitled to judge the usefulness of a device by how much dsp power it provides compared to native

Personally for me it's about the music and the sounds. I couldn't give too hoots about relative processing power of UAD-1s and native.

My next DAW will be a dual-dualcore machine, which will smoke a P4, but I'm still looking forward to using my UAD-1 cards with it.

Paul

 

[Celsius]

When they came out they were as powerfull as a PIII, now a P4 is 4 times more powerfull than one of those problem chasers... talk about redundant??

Errm....
When you can run the plugins on a P4, I'll agree with you.
Until then .....nope....definitely not redundant...