Year / Date of Issue: 07.2020
Version: 1.0.0
Developer: Baby Audio
Developer site: babyaud
Format: VST, VST3, AAX, AU
Bit depth: 32bit, 64bit
Tabletka: not required | RETAiL
System requirements: Plugin formats: VST, VST3, AU, AAX.
Platforms supported: Mac OS 10.7 and up including Catalina. PC Windows 7 and up.
DAWs supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more.
Description: Vintage sound with plugin LoFi-tape saturator, beat crusher, reverb.
As kids in the ’80s, we’re always used to the sound of slightly out of tune synths, warm tape saturation, gritty samples and grainy reverbs. Therefore, we set ourselves the task of capturing the spirit of our beloved decade and transferring it into the new decade. Meet the complex algorithm with eight simple handles. We named it “Super” for its capabilities and “VHS” for its sound.
We wanted this plugin to be like sending your sounds back in time and then appearing on a worn out VHS cassette 30 years later. Everything with the click of a button, right in your DAW! The result is six unique effects combined into a versatile channel strip. Super VHS will add some lo-fi authenticity to any clean sound you put through it – especially when you’re mixing and matching effects. Each effect has only one control, but several parameters under the hood, allowing for a wide range of results.
As for “drift”, the MiniMoog was infamous for its temperature-sensitive oscillators; I believe keyboard deity Jan Hammer (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jeff Beck, w/Neal Schon, and “Miami Vice” soundtrack composer and producer, and self-proclaimed primarily a drummer!) spoke at some length about this as the MiniMoog was his synth of choice in those days. I don’t recall the temperature sensitivity was a problem with the ARP and other analog VCO synths.
If ya think about it, it’s kinda ironic that plugins to “degrade” sounds comprise such a huge piece of the industry……. digital is “perfect” then we use mangling utilities……. now, when it comes to “retro” and “vintage”, as a professional performing musician I gotta wonder who in the audience is raving about how vintage a compressor sounds. Being there must be hundreds of VST/AAX/etc. compressor plugins, I also gotta wonder……. at what point is a T-racks compressor superior to a Fab-Filter compressor, and vice versa?
I love the baby audio plugins, I hope we get a whole bundle!