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Ugo Metallurgy

Ugo released Metallurgy, a multi effect that is capable of providing sounds ranging from basic, subtle, filter tweaks to twisted, complex, walls of sound that bare almost no resemblance to the original audio.

Details about Ugo Metallurgy:
Metallurgy offers 3 filters with multiple modulation options (including step sequencing), 2 distortions (each with 3 modes), 2 down-samplers, dual delay, an envelope follower, a gate sequencer, and a Metal effect that, in addition to flanging and metallic effects, also provides the ability to produce pitched sequences, nearly turning Metallurgy into an synth in its own right.

Metallurgy has been designed with synths, bass, and drums in mind, but is useful with a wide range of sound types and comes with over 400 categorized patches.

Purchase Metallurgy (Windows VST): Price: $20.00 (USD).

Download Demo (only 64 patches and occasional volume dropout):
Metallurgy1.5 Demo - PC WinXP

Demo Songs:
Metallurgy-demo-1;
Metallurgy-demo-2;
Metallurgy-demo-3;
Metallurgy-demo-4.

Metallurgy Features:

Metal effect:
* used for metallic sounds, flanging, and sequenced notes
* 16 step pitch sequencer with a 5 octave note range, portamento, and sequence length
* LFO
Filters:
* low pass, band pass, and high pass
* all 3 filters can function at the same time, running in parallel
* each filter has it’s own LFO
* 16 step sequencer with mod amount control for each filter, glide, and sequence length
* each filter has its own volume control
Filth 1 and 2 - each includes:
* downsampler
* distortion with 3 modes
* LFO controls the downsamplers (8 modes, including positive and negative options)
* Filth 1 = pre filter, Filth 2 = post filter
Gate sequencer
* 16 steps
* gate length control
* mix control
Dual Delay
* each has its own time controls
* stereo width adjustment
Envelope follower
* modulate any/all of the 3 filter cutoffs
* modulate Metal time + the Metal’s all pass filter
* amount, attack and decay controls
417 patches
Randomizers are provided for most sections
Midi CC control over nearly all parameters
Host BPM sync for LFO’s and sequencers
Mono signal path

New Metallurgy features / changes in 1.5

MIDI input to metal pitch - this controls both pitch and gate, allowing you to use your keyboard to play metallurgy like a monosynth
Greatly improve sequencer timing/resets
New envelope follower destinations: volume, master mix
Pan sequencing - this has been merged with the gate sequencer…each step has its own pan control and the user has the option of either just the gate, just the pan, or both
Pan control for each filter + independent modulation
Sample and hold for all LFOs
Improved/fixed the LFO waveform lengths
Two slower settings for all sequencers: 4 and 8 bar
GUI is brighter, sharper, and higher contrast (compared to the original)
Added master sequencer reset button
A whole bunch of new presets

512 Categorized presets by: Canned Heat, Darrell Burgan / Spirit Canyon Audio, dystonia_ek, H.G. Fortune, Jeremy Janzen / Floyd, Stephan Muesch / rsmus7, Tim Conrardy / Algomusic, WaveRider, Roben Stobenz, Dave Wallin / White Noise, Audio, Frank Genus / ToTc / Pro-Sounds, Donovan Stringer / Sickle, Highkoo, Anke, Jeff Rhodes / Perimeter Sound Arts, Ugo

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