My faveorites are 'Filther', Drift, Sequential, Turbo and Turbulence. Sinevibes makes some wicked sick plug-ins that are pretty cheap. Some of the units in his Uhbik bundle are pretty cool too. I really love the filtered delay lines in U-He's MFM2. There's a cool vector based envelope filter called FilterShaper by Cableguys that you can do some really insane stuff with. The Decimort shuold be of interesting note to you with it's capacity for E-Mu filter and AD/DA sample rate emulations. They need to give those plug-ins a more expansive multiband mode. It was mostly Redoptor and Decimort, but I could never really get the results I wanted without splitting my bands to different busses with an instance on each and summing back to a single track. I was big on the D16 Group stuff for a little bit. They kind of remind me of using MetaSynth a bit but the Adobe stuff much easier to use imo since they're more traditional editors with a couple weird approaches instead of the other way around. My understanding is that Audition is the more fully featured (Zaftig or Rubenesque, perhaps? lol) editor that allows external plug-ins and has more options, tracks and features. You can chop very precise holes and chunks out of your audio and get some really interesting results. Namely the Spectral Editing Mode which is a Graphical Audio Editor that gives you some tools similar to photoshop to visually and thus audibly mangle your audio. They both have an interesting approach to editing. I really have fun editing in Adobe's SoundBooth and link textAudition (Audition is now native on Mac), for experimental and unique file manipulation. Even though using it for it's timestretch is decidely (by me) a sound designers must have program.Īlso, interestingly enough. ' Paulstretch' has some interesting filters and you don't even have to time stretch your audio to use them. In SW you can create chains of modules, assign LFO's to the parameters, side-chain additional audio into it for some convolution type effects and loads more. Really wicked Modular Insert based Spectral FX environment. Little Endian Ltd's ' SpectrumWorx' (who I just finished a signature preset library for). I've been using it since I was testing out the first beta's and the possibilities are endless. Soundhack has several bundles well suited for filtering. They're all mostly esoteric plug-in's that have filters and/or morophing functions and not so common filter types like Spectral based processing, LFO routing options, Crazy editing, shaping and more. Obviously Soundtoys and GRM Tools are a bit of a given in our field, so here are some that give me that same 'giddy child discovering new ways to make weird sounds' feeling when I get to work with them and will likely annoy the living hell out of anyone within 50ft of me working and looping for hours on end. Since Filtering actually includes more than just excessive EQ, off the top of my head there's a few really crazy one's that I'm a big fan of.

Spectral shapers by soundhack