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Octavlord faceplate in Studies
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Octavlord

Octave Conjuring Machine

Part of Studies

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

 See the standalone interface

Description

Octavlord is an octave conjuring machine. It generates three octaves from any input: a sub two octaves down, one octave down and one octave up.

Taking cues from a legacy of famous guitar pedals, it reproduces all three at once, embellishes them with fluttery modulation and conjures voices previously unheard in the source material. The octaves are made in the spectral domain rather than by tracking a pitch, so chords, noise and drums get shifted along with single notes. A Moog-style filter sits in series with the octaves only, so you can shape the harmonies while your original signal stays untouched. Octavlord can work his magic with subliminal bass pulsations or with extreme, multi-octave aberrations.

Octavlord in the Handbook

Signal path

Octavlord sums your stereo input to mono and analyzes it in the spectral domain. Three copies are shifted down two octaves, down one and up one, and their level knobs mix them together. That mix goes through the flutter tremolo and the Moog-style low-pass, and BLEND sets it against the mono sum of your dry input. The output is mono, the same on both sides.

  1. Sub octave

    SUB
    Sets the level of the sub voice, two octaves below your input.

  2. Octave down

    MINUS ONE
    Sets the level of the voice one octave below your input.

  3. Octave up

    PLUS ONE
    Sets the level of the voice one octave above your input.

  4. Flutter tremolo

    FLUTTER
    Modulates the level of the octaves. Turning it up raises the depth and the speed together, from slow, shallow pulsations to a fast tremolo at 10 Hz that swings the octaves between silence and double their level. At zero the octaves hold steady.

  5. Moog low-pass

    FILTER
    Sets the cutoff of a Moog-style four-pole low-pass, from 20 Hz to 10 kHz. It filters only the octaves, never your original signal.

  6. Master

    BLEND
    Mixes your original signal with the octaves. Fully up you hear only the octaves.
    GAIN
    Sets the output level, from silent up to double. Noon is unity.

Try thisBring SUB up on its own, pull FILTER down to a few hundred hertz and set BLEND to noon. That gives you a subliminal bass layer under a lead or a vocal, and a little FLUTTER makes it pulse slowly.

Demo
This video shows the standalone plugin.
Good to know

In Studies

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

Mono

Octavlord works in mono. It sums your input before shifting it, and the dry side of BLEND is that mono sum too, so a stereo track comes out centered.

Standalone

The standalone plugin, shown further down the page, has the same controls. In Studies we renamed its OUTPUT knob GAIN.

Formats
Studies: Audio Units, VST2 and VST3 on Mac, VST3 on Windows · Apple silicon native
Systems
Current macOS and Windows 10/11 x64
Octavlord | Octave Conjuring Machine

Standalone version

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

AU · VST2 · VST3 · macOS · Windows