Open new horizons of sound with Stimulate from ViatorDSP – a plugin that will become your secret ingredient for giving tracks brightness, presence, and a unique character. Forget about dull or lifeless sound – Stimulate is designed to breathe life into your audio signals, enriching them with harmonic content.
Stimulate by ViatorDSP: More than just brightness
In the world of digital audio, where every instrument and vocal competes for the listener’s attention, the ability to highlight key elements becomes extremely important. Stimulate is not just an equalizer or ordinary saturation. It is a harmonic exciter designed to purposefully enrich the upper frequencies or the entire spectrum with controlled harmonics, adding transparency, “air,” and subjective loudness to the signal without significantly increasing the peaks.
How does Stimulate work?
At the heart of Stimulate is the process of harmonic excitation. The plugin analyzes the input signal and generates new harmonics that are added to the original sound. You can choose which harmonics will be added – even, odd, or a combination of both. This gives you a unique opportunity to shape the sound character:
- Even harmonics: Typically associated with warmth, fullness, and “vintage” tube sound. They smooth the signal and add pleasant compression.
- Odd harmonics: Often give the signal aggression, brightness, and “ringing” qualities, characteristic of transistor or tape effects.
The ability to mix these two types of harmonics allows you to achieve a wide range of sounds – from a barely noticeable shimmer to expressive saturation and distortion.
A key control element is the “Range” knob. It determines the frequency range above which harmonic excitation will occur. Thus, you can accurately target the effect only on the required frequencies, for example, add “air” to the vocals, or make the cymbals more sparkling, without affecting the bass or the mid frequencies.
The “Amount” knob controls the overall intensity of harmonic addition, allowing you to smoothly adjust the degree of the effect – from a light boost to strong drive.
Visualization in the central part of the interface helps to understand how the plugin affects the signal, showing the ratio of even and odd harmonics. This is a useful tool for fine-tuning.
Control Parameters:
Stimulate offers an intuitive set of controls for full control over the process:
- Amount: Adjusts the overall intensity of harmonic excitation (drive).
- Range: Sets the threshold frequency above which harmonics are added.
- Odd: Determines the amount of odd harmonics.
- Even: Determines the amount of even harmonics.
- Phase: Allows you to invert the signal phase.
- Mix: The balance between the processed (“wet”) and the original (“dry”) signal. Ideal for parallel processing.
- Trim: Adjusts the output volume level.
Compatibility
The Stimulate plugin from ViatorDSP is available in modern 64-bit formats, ensuring stable operation in most modern DAWs:
- Windows: VST3 (64-bit)
- macOS: AU (64-bit), VST3 (64-bit) – Universal Mac
This makes it a convenient tool for both Windows users and Mac owners.
Stimulate is a versatile tool that can be used on individual tracks (vocals, guitars, drums) to highlight them and give them character, as well as on the master bus for final “polishing” and giving the mix brightness and density. Try Stimulate and see how easy it is to improve the sound of your tracks!
