RIFT FILTER LITE CM

Minimal Audio are brand new developers of both plugins and sound packs, and we have both to give you, for free this issue!

Minimal Audio are new US-based software developers who have already released some great looking and sounding plugins like Rift, which they describe as ‘a new type of distortion’. Rift Filter Lite CM is a version of their $49 next generation morphing filter which we have for free this issue. Minimal also make sound packs and we’re delighted to be able to offer all readers five of these as well. Full instructions to get the packs and the plugin are opposite, plus a run-through of the features in Rift Filter Lite CM.

Rift Filter Lite CM might look pretty basic but it’s actually a very powerful and dramatic filter plugin. It has no less than 24 types of filter in four categories (Basic, Morph, Peaking and Harmonic) with a Morph control that allows you to gradually (or quickly) move between filter shapes, with a screen showing the filter types move as you dial in the action.

You get everything from fairly standard low and hi-pass filters to more complex shapes. Highlights include some great vowel-like filters that allow you to create speech-like ‘wow’ effects which are especially creative when combined with a bit of DAW automation.

Over the next few pages we’ll give you full instructions on how to download Rift Filter Lite CM for free and the Minimal Audio sound packs. We’ll then run through some of the main features of the plugin, including its rather great Pitch Snap feature, where the cutoff frequency of the filter can be snapped to MIDI.

Check out Minimal Audio’s website (minimal. audio) for more info on their other plugins and our interview with them on p8.

FILTER TYPES Select between four main filter types, each with six presets MAIN DISPLAY Gives an indication of filter type and what the Morphing dial is doing to your filter type. Also especially useful with the Spread control MORPH DIAL Morph between filter types for great real-time effects; very good when used with vowel filters FILTER MIX This simply controls the mix between the signal entering and the wet filtered mix FILTER STEPPING Step-through filters with the dropdown menu or click left and right SPREAD Adjust the cutoff of left and right channels for wide stereo effects. Positive make the right filter higher; negative, the left CUTOFF MAPPING Your main cutoff frequency can be mapped to MIDI or note values, or shown in standard Hz CUTOFF And of course the main cutoff frequency can be controlled here RESONANCE CONTROL Your other main dial to set the amount of filter resonance is here