Our friends at Zynaptiq have released their new WORMHOLE plug-in which was announced at NAMM 2017. Also released today are 4 software plugin bundles, ZAP II, DESIGN, REMIX and REPAIR. Finally, Zynaptiq has announced that their UNVEIL, UNFILTER, UNCHIRP, PITCHMAP plug-ins can now be authorised using iLok licenses.
Zynaptiq WORMHOLE Plug-in
WORMHOLE consists of 5 processing modules: the spectral WARP, the pitch/frequency SHIFT, the dual random modulated hall REVERB, a nifty little DELAY, and the dry/wet morphing FX BLEND sections. In combination with a flexible signal path, WORMHOLE has been designed to be an ultra-fast and easy-to-use, high-end multi-effects processor.
What Is WORMHOLE For?
While WORMHOLE is designed to excel at making the usually time-consuming workflows of creating high-quality Sci-Fi sounds and creature voices fast, easy, fun and extremely hi-fi, it actually covers a very broad range of applications – including musical sweetening and ambient effects from the grungy to the shimmering and lush, bread-and-butter mixing effects like creating suboctaves, widening, chorusing, filtering, harmonic shaping and reverberation, and some seriously psychedelic electronica colors and mangling effects.
Alien, Robot and Monster Voices & Space-Age Transmission FX
WORMHOLE is designed to be good for making all sorts of creature and robotic voices, as well as making them sound like the gravitometric faster-than-light transceiver went out-of-range. The WARP and SHIFT sections provide the mangling, while the dry/wet morphing ensures intelligibility (even with extreme transformations) and serves to fine-tune the alienification amount – reigning even the strongest processing back in if so desired. Or use the morphing to gradually transition from clean to mutated in an otherwise impossible, cool way.
Surreal Soundscapes and SFX
With WORMHOLE, you can also make spaceship atmospheres and neutrino accelerator field fluctuation induced interference oscillations. Turn cute metal clangs into huge impacts of intergalactic proportions, air-conditioning rumble into ancient planetoid displacement machinery hum, and synthesiser waveforms into mutated cyborg production facility power plant drones. Then, animate the sound organically by moving the dry/wet morph and section dry/wet mixes just a little bit. Or go crazy and automate everything all over the place, of course.
Musical Effects – Shimmering, Ambient
Guitars, pianos, pads all love WORMHOLE. It does just that thing that you'd typically reach for your really awesome vintage rack multi-effects units for, and feed them back to each other through the console... Did we mention the dual, cascadable random modulated hall reverbs yet?
Zynaptiq WORMHOLE Feature Summary
- High-quality multi-effects processing ranging from the sublime to the extreme.
- WARP spectral inversion & warping module.
- SHIFT unique topology combined pitch-/frequency-shifting module with SMOOTH, TIGHT and two DETUNE modes.
- Dual lush randomised hall reverbs.
- Unique dry/wet morphing.
- Very wide +- 4 octaves pitch-shift and +-4000Hz frequency shift range, fully aliasing free, with 96dB/oct (!!) carrier and sideband attenuation.
- Intro Special Price: USD 149 / EUR 169 valid through April 30th, 2017 Regular USD 179/EUR 199
Zynaptiq Release 4 Software Plugin Bundles, ZAP II, DESIGN, REMIX and REPAIR
Zynaptiq have announced the immediate availability of four new bundles, the ZAP II, DESIGN, REMIX and REPAIR bundles, as well as several upgrade paths – with special introductory pricing available until April 30th, 2017.
The ZAP II Bundle includes:
- WORMHOLE Otherworldly Audio Effects Processor.
- MORPH 2 Real-Time Structural Audio Morphing.
- ADAPTIVERB Harmonic Tracking Resynthesis Reverb.
- UNMIX::DRUMS Boost Or Attenuate Drums In Mixed Music.
- UNVEIL De-Reverberation & Signal Focusing Processor.
- UNFILTER Adaptive Tonal Contour Linearization.
- UNCHIRP Codec Artifact Removal & Transient Retrieval.
- PITCHMAP Re-Write Mixed Music In Real-Time.
- Intro Special Price: USD 1199 / EUR 1337 valid through April 30th, 2017 - Regular USD 1499/EUR 1669
The DESIGN Bundle includes:
- WORMHOLE Otherworldly Audio Effects Processor.
- MORPH 2 Real-Time Structural Audio Morphing.
- ADAPTIVERB Harmonic Tracking Resynthesis Reverb.
- Users that own both MORPH 2 as well as ADAPTIVERB can take advantage of an upgrade path to the DESIGN Bundle to add WORMHOLE to their toolkit at an unbeatable price.
- Intro Special Price: USD 399 / EUR 449 valid through April 30th, 2017 - Regular USD 499/EUR 549
The REMIX Bundle includes:
- MORPH 2 Real-Time Structural Audio Morphing.
- UNMIX::DRUMS Boost Or Attenuate Drums In Mixed Music.
- PITCHMAP Re-Write Mixed Music In Real-Time.
- Intro Special Price: USD 399 / EUR 449 valid through April 30th, 2017 - Regular USD 499/EUR 549
The REPAIR Bundle includes:
- UNVEIL De-Reverberation & Signal Focusing Processor.
- UNFILTER Adaptive Tonal Contour Linearization.
- UNCHIRP Codec Artifact Removal & Transient Retrieval.
- Intro Special Price: USD 649 / EUR 729 valid through April 30th, 2017 - Regular USD 799/EUR 889
UNVEIL, UNFILTER, UNCHIRP, PITCHMAP Plug-ins Now Available With iLok Protection
Finlly Zynaptiq have announced the immediate availability of iLok copy-protected versions for our UNVEIL, UNFILTER, UNCHIRP and PITCHMAP plugins, as well as for existing licenses for the ZAP v1 bundle. These versions include support for both Machine/HD-based as well as iLok 2 or newer USB device based activation.
Users of previous, non-iLok protected versions can cross-grade to the iLOK version free of charge.
The previous copy protection system, eSellerate, is being phased out, so all new purchases, as well as the trial versions, will come as iLok-protected versions as of now. Zynaptiq tell us that eSellerate was the way to go when they started developing in 2012, but given the availability of more flexible, secure, compatible and user-friendly options today they are finally happy to move on.
Users that wish to continue using the non-PACE versions may, of course, do so, and they will maintain, update and support the eSellerate versions as best they can.