Rough Diamond Productions has announced the release of whiteLABEL stWIP, a Digital Channel plug-in designed to be used for compression, gating, distortion, EQ or limiting.
stWIPFully Specified: From a single mono input to a full 5.1 surround mix, stWIP automatically switches to the configuration of your choosing. Whenever a channel input falls silent the channel goes to sleep (reducing CPU use) and whenever a section is un-used it too enters sleep mode so you can use your CPU cycles on some other aspect of your project.
Intuitive Control: As well as text-input of major settings, control elements respond to a set of [<key> + click] commands to set control positions, toggle individual sections, and copy and paste between patches. 5 keyboard layouts are supported for international users – QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ, DVORAK & COLEMAC – once set, stWIP remembers the layout so the control modifier keys are in the same position under the hand regardless of physical keyboard layout.
Clean and Simple: Each of stWIP’s 22 main controls is colour coded according to the function it provides – purple for dynamics (gate & compressor), green for filters (high & low shelf), blue for EQ (3 bands, fully parametric) and red for output (distortion & gain). Whenever a control is changed the legend above or below the control shows a real-world value and whenever a section is toggled an easy-on-the-eye indication is given as both the knob’s surround and the legend’s background illuminate or dim to confirm the current state.
Visual Feedback: As well as control names and values, stWIP’s screen displays a waveform of either input or output featuring user-switchable update rates (6 scroll speeds ranging from super-slow to speedy-quick); whenever a filter or EQ setting changes the screen switches to display an approximation of stWIP’s frequency response.
Mute Ability: Each and any of stWIP’s channels (up to 6) can be individually muted (unless a channel is asleep) and the tall bright VU meters (input & output) give an indication of levels – expressed as either linear or non-linear scale (double-clicking the meters changes mode). When the input configuration changes the meters switch to show only the number of channels in use – for example, when using stWIP on a QUAD mix and panning the input to just the front pair of speakers, the VU meters reconfigure themselves to 2-channel mode giving a clearer view of only the channels currently in use.
There are 2 main versions of stWIP – stereo [stWIP(FULL)] and surround [stWIP(XL)]. They only differ in channel-count and price:
- stWIP(FULL) has 2 channels and can be used on mono or stereo tracks / groups / sends / busses.
- stWIP(XL) [the bigger brother] has 6 channels and can be used on mono, stereo, quad and surround parts – any combination up to 6 channels wide.
In addition, a 3rd version, stWIP(FREE), can be used on mono or stereo tracks but lacks MIDI and automation support. Despite the slight reduction in functionality (and nag-screen) it features the same algorithms and has the same look and feel, according to RDP.
All three are available as VST effect plug-ins for Windows and cost:
- stWIP(FREE): Free
- stWIP(FULL): £15
- stWIP(XL): £40
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