Open New Sound Horizons with Bertatron
In the world of music production and sound design, the search for unique tools to shape and model sound is key. Filter plugins play an important role in this process, allowing you to cut, boost, or transform certain frequencies. But what if you have a tool that goes beyond a simple equalizer or filter? Introducing Bertatron from Krakli – a filterbank that offers extraordinary possibilities for creative work with sound.
What is Bertatron?
Bertatron is a powerful VST plugin, designed by specialists from Krakli, known for their innovative and often unusual tools. At the heart of Bertatron lies a structure of seven independent filter cascades. Each of these cascades has its own set of controls, allowing you to precisely adjust the cutoff frequency and its center value (frequency). This multi-stage architecture in itself opens up wide prospects for detailed frequency modeling, allowing you to create complex filtering curves that are impossible to achieve with simple filters.
Unique Feature: Phase Inversion
However, the true magic of Bertatron lies in its unique and rare capability: phase inversion for EACH of the seven filter cascades separately. This is not just a technical detail; it’s a feature that fundamentally changes the approach to filtering and opens up completely new sound palettes.
Traditional filtering changes the amplitude of certain frequencies, but phase inversion, combined with filtering, can create effects similar to a comb filter, but with much greater control and flexibility. When you invert the phase of a filter, this results in deep “dips” or notches at certain frequencies instead of a simple cutoff. By combining different types of filters (if available, although the description only indicates “filterbank”, which may mean one type of filter, but with cutoff and frequency control, which is more like resonant band-pass or peak/notch filters), their frequencies and phase inversion, you can create incredibly complex and dynamic frequency responses. This allows you to literally “cut out” or “emphasize” extremely narrow frequency bands, creating the effect of “transparency,” bizarre resonances, or unique spectral textures that are simply impossible with standard equalizers.
The ability to invert the phase of each filter separately provides unprecedented control over how different frequency bands interact with each other. This allows you to experiment with sound at a completely new level, creating effects that range from barely noticeable timbral changes to radical transformations that turn the original signal into something completely new and unexpected.
Features and Applications
Due to its unique capabilities, Bertatron is an extremely versatile tool for a wide range of tasks in the studio:
- Sound Design: Create fantastic, otherworldly textures, robotic voices, metallic sounds, or any other effects that require precise and unusual control over the frequency spectrum.
- Mixing: Use it to surgically remove unwanted resonances or hums, or vice versa – to emphasize the unique harmonics of an instrument. Create space and clarity in the mix through precise frequency modeling.
- Creative Effects: Apply it to synthesizers, guitars, vocals, or drums to give them new life. Use parameter automation to create moving, “live” filtering effects.
- Experiments: Bertatron is perfect for those who like to explore the boundaries of sound and find new ways to manipulate audio.
The plugin is available in VST format and is compatible with the Windows operating system (32-bit). Although it may require the use of a bridge to work in 64-bit DAWs, its unique features fully justify these efforts.
If you are looking for a tool that will help you go beyond the usual filtering effects and discover new dimensions in your sound arsenal, Bertatron from Krakli is exactly what you need. Add this unique filterbank to your plugin collection and start experimenting!
