Stunning Phaser VST/AU

Description

Download: Stunning Phaser 1.0.0 OSX VST AU (32 and 64 bit) 7.95 MB

Download: Stunning Phaser 1.0.0 Win VST (32 and 64 bit) 4.21 MB

Stunning Phaser is essentially a vintage phaser emulation toolkit, allowing you to nail the quirks and intricacies of many classic to modern designs with parameters and capabilities most other products simply don’t offer or expose to the user. It uses filter code based on the same, famous, high quality analog filter emulations used in our other products, Naive LPF, SCAMP and our flagship product, the Poly-Ana virtual-analog synthesizer. Not just a stereo phaser plugin; special effects and fuzz and distortion-like tones are easily coaxed out of Stunning Phaser as well. And it offers MIDI control so instead of recording automation with a mouse (which it can of course also do) you can perform directly on the most important controls on your favorite MIDI controller keyboards or pedals! It has LFO modulation as you would expect with a wide range of host-sync timings and multiple waveform options, but the secret-weapon is Stunning Phaser’s envelope followers, inspired by ones in our envelope following filters, Naive LPF and SCAMP. It’s quirky, different-sounding and like our other products, that’s exactly what makes it stand out from the rest of the crowd.

 

Stunning Phaser Changes list:

1.0.0 2026-03-25 Added: 55 Presets, 55 High Quality versions of the same presets, and a selection of 17 that work particularly well at Low Quality. These should help get you going, and please send us your favorites as you create them and we’ll collect them and share them on the website and future updates of the product. Added: Documentation pdf. Good stuff in there!  Otherwise no changes since Beta 0.5.2. (Note that you may need to re-load Stunning Phaser into your old projects to see the new plugin presets.)

Beta 0.5.2 2018-11-28 Added: Resonance soft-clipping level control. Turn fully counter clockwise to deactivate and return to the unclipped resonance behavior of earlier versions. Turn up to control level of resonant peaks by applying non-linear distortion to the resonance signal. Tweaked: Reduced LFO depth range to +/- 200% from 400%. This final update in the Beta series completes Stunning Phaser’s features and behaviors which will be locked down from the next update on. Coming soon: Completely re-done graphics (it’s grown a lot since its first conception and needs a complete re-design!), preset patches, and user manual.

Beta 0.5.1 2018-11-15 Fixed: Crash bug related to wrong number of parameters reported to host.

Beta 0.5.0 2018-11-13 Added: MIDI CC# selection in Options Dialog and MIDI Mod Amount knobs on the front panel for the Center Frequency and LFO Rate controls. MIDI CC# preferences are global and the front panel depth settings are saved per-patch/project.

Beta 0.4.0 2018-04-20 Added: Quality (oversampling multiplier) control. 5 modes: 1X, 2X, 4X, 8X, 16X. Defaults to 4X which previous Beta versions were hard-wired to. This has a subtle yet powerful effect on the quality of sound. Reduce to save CPU during tracking and turn up during rendering for best results. (Though sometimes less is more, for some applications the lower quality sound might be exactly what you want. Your choice now!) Tweaked: Center Freq and all HPF/LPF filter cutoff frequencies now consistent across all host sample rates and Quality settings. Added: 2 and 4 Stage settings added to Stages knob. Maximum is still 32, default is still 16. Added: Negative Resonance range is now possible! While this sounds somewhat faulty to our ears, it is a different sound and doesn’t hurt any of the other behavior, so we’re giving you the option. Added: Turning the Wet HPF or Envelope Follower HPF/LPF to off will clear their memory. Useful if an envelope follower goes out of range. Setting Envelope Follower depth to zero does the same. Fixed: Envelope Follower negative range actually goes negative now. Tweaked: Envelope Follower no longer subtracts a DC offset when HPF is deactivated. Eliminates audible bump when Env HPF is activated. Tweaked: Envelope Follower HPF and LPF knob curves adjusted to compensate for above changes and put sweet spots roughly in the middle of the knob range.

Beta 0.3.0 2018-03-11 Added: LFO Range control. Far more range on the low end in Free mode as well as much longer numbers of beats in Host-Sync mode. Tweaked: Curve (now curves) on the LFO Rate control.

Beta 0.2.0 2018-02-15 Added:Input and Output Mono (sum) buttons. Added:Input Gain control. Added:Stage Detune control. Spreads phaser stage tuning in a non-even pattern to simulate inconsistencies between stages in analog phasers. Added:Stage Saturation control. Adds a smooth saturation to the phaser input. Tweaked:Increased range of Output (and new Input) Gain controls and adjusted curves. Tweaked:Increased range of LFO Depth control to +/- 400%. Tweaked:Increased longest possible Free LFO Rate. Added:Envelope Follower’s DC cut switch replaced with a HPF Cutoff Frequency control to allow full control over DC Cut and “sharpening” behavior. Added:Exposed the Envelope Follower LPF’s Cutoff Frequency control to allow full control over “smoothing” behavior. Tweaked:Greatly increased Envelope Follower Amount range to +/- 1000%! Control curve also adjusted. Allows for a much greater range of response to adapt to the now user-adjustable LPF and HPF cutoff frequencies. Tweaked:Reported filter and phaser Center Frequencies in Hz should now be more accurate.

Beta 0.1.0 2018-01-11 Fixed: Config file location no longer conflicts with SCAMP folder. (OS X users will still need to manually create the folder where the “Stunning Phaser.ini” will be automatically created to make the non-fatal warning dialog go away. Create /Users/(Your_User_Name)/Library/Application Support/Admiral Quality/Stunning Phaser/ You only need to do this once. This is also the location your “Stunning Phaser.key” file will go in after license key purchase. Please note that this is not the same /Library folder that’s in your system root. If you can’t find your User ~/Library folder, please see the instructions here to reveal it. Sorry about all this hassle, Apple changed permissions a few versions back that broke our automatic folder creation behavior.) Optimized: CPU usage should now be a bit less. New features don’t add any CPU load when not activated. Fixed: (OS X) “Demo Mode” message was interfering with proper functioning of program number menu, name edit field and increment decrement buttons at top. Moved down over Stunning Phaser logo. Fixed (we think, please let us know): (OS X) Non-fatal error message in Logic Pro X. And preset programs now all set to “init”. (We will be adding preset programs in a later Beta update after the feature set has stabilized. Please send us your favorites!) Added: Envelope Follower “DC Cut” filter switch. A selectable, preset -24 dB/Oct high-pass filter that causes the envelope follower to fall back towards zero when input levels are unchanging. Greatly increases Envelope Follower dynamics and eliminates need to compensate for DC offset with the Center Freq control. Try it! Added: A 5th mode for the Envelope Follower Source selector knob, L-R (Left minus right), which lets stereo-correlation be an envelope source. Very powerful, experiment with panned signals! Added: Output High-pass Filter knob. -24 dB/Oct filter with full-range cutoff frequency adjustment. Very useful for eliminating DC or excessive bottom-end. Added: Output Dry/Wet Mix knob. Normally phasers are 100% wet, but you requested it, so there you go! Added: Output Gain Trim knob. Tweaked: Changed “Inv” control label to “Mod Inv” for clarity.

Beta 0.0.0 2017-12-17 Original Beta release.