MadTracker - VST Plugins - Sonitex STX-1260

Sonitex is a VST effect plug-in for Windows that is dedicated to adding sonic texture to digital audio, and provides detailed emulation of vinyl records and vintage hardware samplers.

When sampling vinyl records on vintage hardware samplers you often get something more than the musical content itself. This "sonic texture" may be a subtle feel, or it may be something that actually plays a defining role to the sample. The key concept in Sonitex is to mimic the cumulative result of every process a piece of music goes through as well as the interaction of these before it ends up as a sample in a contemporary track.

Sonitex includes stages to emulate the mixing stage, overall distortion, vinyl pressing & playback, vinyl noise, frequency fidelity and finally the resolution & characteristics in the digital sampling.

Features

• Dynamic processing to add initial punch and density.
• Mid/Side stereo adjustments.
• Distortion with pre-emphasis circuit and dry/wet control.
• 5 Distortion types (Saturation, Distortion, Amplifier, Digital 1 + 2).
• Flexible distortion pre-filter.
• Vinyl pitch instability with multiple warp shapes, and speed control (syncable).
• Sibilance processing to emulate high frequency distortion on vinyl playback.
• Overall bandwidth control with separate high & low frequency roll-off and “bump”
control.
• Additional processing to mimic vinyl groove wear and the “phone”-sound on early
systems.
• Flexible control over density, level and stereo spread on both vinyl “pops” and
“clicks”.
• Optional program dependant density for pops and clicks.
• 20 noise types ranging from vinyl noise and hiss to mechanical noises.
• Option to load custom wav files with noise or other sounds. (syncable).
• Adjustable gate (with syncable delay) on noise channel allows many ways to integrate noise.
• Flexible sampling section allows emulation of many types of sampler configurations.
• Bit-depth reduction and 3 types of samplerate reductions (with adjustable antialiasing filter).
• Dynamic lowpass filter section.
• Adjustable built-in compressor on output.
• 3 internal routing configurations.
• Intelligent design to reduce CPU on disabled sections.
• “Subsets” offers 6 fixed sub-presets on each page to allow fast workflow when experimenting.
• Broad selection of categorized presets.