Intelligent Devices releases Marshall Time Modulator and Slip-N-Slide and announces MegaDelayMass

Intelligent Devices has announced the release of two new plug-ins: Marshall Time Modulator and Slip-N-Slide, and announced another: MegaDelayMass.

The Marshall Time Modulator plug-in is a faithful recreation of a classic and much loved piece of audio hardware. Slip-N-Slide is a "spectral interpolator". MegaDelayMass is a 100 tap delay with lots of control for tweaking.

Marshall Time Modulator
Windows / Mac OS X; VST; $149.

Before there was much "digital" anything, and before records were considered something anachronistic and nostalgia evoking, back when "Dark Side of the Moon" was new and Hip-Hop kind of a distant dream, Stephen St. Croix had an idea: What would happen if you took the the longest analog delay line possible, gave it the greatest signal to noise ratio in a piece of outboard gear, and then made the modulation of it possible over such a wide range that it could effect sound in ways sublime AND outrageous. Something so utilitarian and necessary that it could fit in equally well on Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life," or as the means of giving extra gravitas to the sound of a bad acid trip. Stephen called it: The Marshall Time Modulator.

Features:

• Two separate delay lines, in a ratio of 1:2 or 1:4., each with their own volume, phase and pan controls and a joint feedback control.
• Once modulation is added, the ratios between the delay lines don't change, but together the delay lines can be continuously swept over the range from minimum to maximum time over the LFO (Low frequency Oscillator) rate. This is a function of the interaction between the Time Delay, Preset, Time Modulation, LFO Shape and LFO Speed parameters working together.

Slip-N-Slide
Windows / Mac OS X; VST; $79.

Slip-N-Slide is a unique frequency domain audio morpher/mangler. It offers several different frequency domain effects, each with a significant amount of control over the effected as well as uneffected portions of the sound and each affording either a little or a lot of "ra n do m n e s s ."

With Slip-N-Slide you can create almost anything from shimmering, temporally rigid, spectral tremolos to slurred speech, to quirky, reverse-gate sounding effects, to new ambiances to continuously new rhythmic and sonic artifact riddled accents. The combination of spectral processing with controllable randomization is very powerful.

Features:

• Modify existing sounds or to create whole new sounds from existing material.
• Create patterned or random slides of the spectral content, create a spectral sample and hold.
• Pluck out individual components from complex sounds.
• Or mix and match.

MegaDelayMass
Windows / Mac OS X; VST; $TBA.

MegaDelayMass is a new kind of multi-tap delay.

Think about this: up to 100 separate delay taps that can be either rigidly time synched OR completely randomized. Go from vocoderish resonation to unusual, non-linear, reverby sounds. Control the volume of the head of the delay or the tail. Randomize panning. Control randomized "clumping" through a logarithmic curve. Use it as a non-linear room simulator (especially if you're a fan of pre-delay). If you're familiar with Pure Data, Max/MSP or Reaktor, you can easily create patches that allow you to "play" the resonation.