Mrugalla - Manta

[dusk verge]

I finally decided that my new plugin, Manta, is finished. Here's a video: https://youtu.be/4_J-QRlKrRk I'll write a TLDW soon.

DL and stuff: https://github.com/Mrugalla/Manta

It is a parallel bandpass filter plugin, also called a resonator. As the title suggests I made it in response to dan worrall's bandpass filter video, where he used those to make drums considerably fatter, but in a natural way.

So I basically made a plugin for that to make it more convenient and straight-forward. It solves some imo often occuring workflow problems like:

• a lot of parallel filter plugins don't have a gain knob on the bandpass filters for some reason.
• you can add other pitch-based effects right in the plugin instead of having to sync its settings with other stuff in your chain.
• you can turn up the q-factor way more than in most bandpass-filter plugins

It also has some nerdy features like a formula parser for wavetable creation, parameter randomizers with flexible options and a tuning editor where you can modulate to a different xen scale

[fleet ivy]

Nice i may try to build it from source for mac

[dusk verge]

thank you 🙂

[fleet ivy]

I have no idea how to package the binaries into an installer .pkg/dmg but I'll see.

[dusk verge]

no idea either. i never make installers but just copy vst3 files into the corresponding folder

[next oxide]

Hey Flo, how would you say does your mantra compare to this new one: https://xynth.gumroad.com/l/rezonator

[next oxide]

@dusk verge Not sure if you saw ^^ this. Please forgive me tagging you for that 😮

[dusk verge]

this plugin is awesome. i saw it already in its early stages

[next oxide]

But, your mantra is not so different, is it?

ok, they have 6 bands, and you have 2 (I think)

And you dont have a snap to scale thing I guess

[dusk verge]

rezonator has more filters. manta has 3

i also don't have snap to scale, but snap to pitch + a parameter for alternative xen scales

[next oxide]

of course theirs is more polished, but probably 10x of dev time went into rezonator 😄

[dusk verge]

in manta every filter is followed by a comb filter, saturation and a ring modulator

[next oxide]

Ahh, ok. So it does a bit more

[dusk verge]

and i have a convenient eq pad

[next oxide]

However giving mantra the rezonator features would probably not be the biggest challenge. Not that you should do it. Im sure you already have tons of other ideas, as always.

[dusk verge]

actually just today i was thinking about snap to scale. but idk yet. i did wanna move on to my next project after all

[next oxide]

Do you know if rezonator supports midi in, to control the freq of the bands?

[dusk verge]

i think i saw that once but not sure

[next oxide]

So whats your next project? 👀

[dusk verge]

i have a few different ideas, not decided yet. atm i just focus a bit more on university first and lowkey tidy up my code base. always looks like shit at the end of a project

[next oxide]

If you are undecided, you could ask in one of your yt polls 🙂

oh yeah, tidying up is no fun tho 😄

[dusk verge]

i think it can be relaxing. and a satisfying feeling the more it approaches being done

followed by a feeling of emptyness when it's done

[next oxide]

it can also lead into questioning the whole architecture and wanting to rewrite everything 😄

[dusk verge]

yeah i sometimes do that, when i feel brave