Introducing Mogano. Our first FREE plugin!
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2024
- Mogano is a very transparent and crunchy overdrive modelled after a classic synthesizer voltage-controlled filter.
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Gonna give this a try today, definitely didn’t expect the emo/post-rockish demo audio but pleasantly surprised!! cheers. 🎉
Wow! It sounds amazing! Great job 💪
This plugin works great. It distorts audio, and it isn't afraid to go hard. At normal levels, it'll introduce a LOT of distortion. Tasty, though.
The biggest problem is that it adds too much gain, without an easy way to compensate. AN OUTPUT VOLUME KNOB WOULD BE NICE!!!
If you feed it a sine wave, it'll keep the fundamental at the same level, but the overall louder signal level is super annoying to compensate for, and could deceive many people.
An impulse response** analysis at -90dB shows that the default setting, halfway up the knob, adds 12dB of gain.
An analyzer showed this gain range is mostly linear, with a 2nd harmonic barely popping up at -156, at full knob-crank.
With the knob all the way up, it's 18dB of added gain.
A distortion plugin that adds that much gain means that, without compensation, the signal will hit any further distortion and compression harder. Could be useful, but the lack of control is a workflow detriment.
Adding input & output gain knobs, with the ability to link them, would be LOVELY.
**Sidenote: linear analysis is hard to trust because the plugin does not have a perfectly linear gain range. As soon as the signal is quiet enough to disregard the plugin distortion, you run into quantization distortion from the limited bit-depth. This is not a flaw in the plugin design. It seems like a reasonable bit-depth for an overdrive plugin.
Strangely, the plugin seems to invert the polarity of the signal, making it harder to use Reaper's built-in delta listening. This is no-bueno from a usability perspective, but also a move that could be intended to confuse newbies who wanna null-test. Or a mistake. IDK.
The plugin's oversampling works spectacularly. Nothing to say there.
The plugin is also very CPU-light. This probably means it's a waveshaper or 2, with oversampling. Whatever, sounds good.
The distortion is mostly 2nd harmonic at low gain, then adds a nice round heaping of even harmonics, then sounds more like symmetrical clipping as the input gets hotter.
The knob 'seems' to control the character, not just an input gain control. But I have no way to be certain. This is exactly why input/output gain controls would be nice.
Hello! Thank you for your feedback!
Happy to hear you like Mogano's sound and that you find the oversampling good!
Mogano has a very basic gain compensation designed to not lose perceived volume when there is quite a lot of distortion. The drawback is that for lower levels, as you mentioned, it will boost the signal.
You are correct in saying that Mogano flips the signal's phase. I wanted to stay true to the modelled circuit that has the same behaviour, but if it turns out to be an issue reported by many I could evaluate fixing that. It should be fairly trivial.
If you like Mogano's distortion but you want more control on it, you should try out our Scirocco. With Scirocco you have up to four distortion stages that are very similar to the single stage in Mogano. You can select/blend them in different ways (some of them won't flip the signal's phase) and you have control over the input and output gains.
I would consider the phase inversion to be an undesirable behavior. If, for example, I were to want to use this effect in a parallel configuration, I would have to go through the extra step(s) of inverting the phase back to normal to prevent cancellation. It would make more sense, I think, to preserve the original phase so that blending the dry signal does not tamper with the result.
@@tonogram regardless of the phase inversion, the oversampling filter is minimum-phase. The plugin introduces phase rotation in the high frequencies, so using it in parallel will not sound transparent.
You might be better suited with the many other saturators out there. BussColors by Airwindows is a good distortion in parallel.
Oooh! Sounds great 🎶🎉
Thank you! 🙏
Issue downloading:
Hey there, looking forward to checking this out! Hope you're well.
M1 Air on Sonoma 14.5, and when I download the mac demo option, the dmg file tells me "file could not be open, disk image corrupted" when trying to open
Hi Ben!
Sorry to hear that. No idea what's happening.
I'd suggest trying with different browsers and see if you can manage with any. If nothing works please contact me using the support form on Eftilo's website (eftilo.com/contact/).