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Studies

Later

West Coast Mod Box

Part of Studies

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Price: $20

The original plugin with its own interface, as a one-time purchase.

 See the standalone interface

Description

Later is a modulation box designed to bring warm modulations to a sunny day. It runs your audio through two band-pass filters and gives you the controls to modulate them on a small or a large scale. The filtered signal then goes through delay lines whose time moves, for slow time-based effects and far-out sweeps.

Some settings give you tape warbles, vibrato and flutter. Others sound like filtered radio. It can also make temporal glitches, tremolo pulses and big space effects, or just a delicate chorus. The filters only pass their two bands, so the more wet signal you blend in, the thinner and more radio-like the sound gets.

Later in the Handbook

Signal path

Your input splits into two band-pass filters, and the sweep LFO moves both of them up from their COLOR settings. Each band also feeds a delay line moved by the chorus LFO. The two bands and their delayed copies are summed, then BLEND mixes them with your dry input before GAIN.

  1. Sweep LFO

    SHIFT
    Sets how far the LFO sweeps the two filters up from their COLOR settings, by up to 400 Hz on COLOR 1 and about 140 Hz on COLOR 2.
    SLIP
    Sets the speed of the sweep, from 0.01 to 5 Hz. COLOR 2 moves a little slower than COLOR 1, so the two bands drift against each other.

  2. Chorus LFO

    SPACED
    Sets the chorus depth, which is how far the delay lines move.
    SHAKE
    Sets the chorus speed, a slow modulation from 0.01 to 0.12 Hz. It also scales the delay time, so higher settings push the delayed copies further out, past 100 ms.

  3. Dual band-pass

    COLOR 1
    Sets the center frequency of the first band-pass filter, from 50 Hz to 2 kHz before EDGE.
    COLOR 2
    Sets the center frequency of the second band-pass filter, from 100 Hz to 1 kHz before EDGE.
    BREATH
    Sets the width of both filters, from a narrow 20 Hz up to 200 Hz.
    EDGE
    Multiplies both COLOR frequencies by anything from 0.1 to 5. Low settings pull both bands down into the bass, and high settings lift them into the upper mids and treble.

  4. Master

    BLEND
    Sets the mix between your dry input and the processed sound.
    GAIN
    Sets the output level, from silent up to double. The middle is unity.

Try thisFor filtered radio sounds, keep BREATH narrow and BLEND fully wet. For a delicate chorus, open BREATH all the way and keep BLEND around halfway.

Demo
This video shows the standalone plugin.
Good to know

In Studies

Later is in Studies Effects, under Modifier and Pitch & Time.

Standalone

The standalone plugin is shown further down the page. In Studies we added a GAIN knob for the output level.

Formats
Studies: Audio Units, VST2 and VST3 on Mac, VST3 on Windows · Apple silicon native
Systems
Current macOS and Windows 10/11 x64
Later | West Coast Mod Box

Standalone version

The original plugin with its own interface, as a one-time purchase.

AU · VST2 · VST3 · macOS · Windows