The sound fusion
This multimodular effects plug-in shines more through its inner values and a complicated but well-structured user interface. Firstly, there is a browser with a search function and a wide range of presets, all of which are categorised and provided with a brief description. But you can’t just tweak a few controls here, you can put together your own multi-effects devices. I suspect that with Enrage you can recreate almost every effect of the plug-ins presented here, but this is no easy task. The software is a kind of Blackmagic Design Fusion audio plug-in. And the possibilities are so extensive that it takes a lot of time and tutorials before you can effectively create your own complex multi-effects. But even with the 250 factory presets, which cover a variety of typical effects such as compressors, delays, filters, distortions etc., you can do a lot.
The main advantage of Enrage is that different effect types can react with and to each other, allowing you to create completely different effects than by simply connecting individual, independent effects in series.
The plug-in offers more than 50 different FX devices with up to six-fold serial or parallel multiband processing. Together with 10 different mod sources, this opens up unlimited possibilities for changing the sound and finding inspiring creative FX flows. Even synthesisers and other sound generators can be created using the generators.
There is of course a dedicated playlist on Boom Library’s YouTube channel to help with this, but we also had Jan and Axel show us how to put together exciting multi-effects in a vMix interview and asked how the plug-in was created.
To link the modulators and macro controls to the parameters, simply drag the four dots onto the hole next to the parameters. You can then click and drag with the mouse to define the area of influence, which is then displayed with an arc in the corresponding colour. The most important keyboard commands in the rack are Alt LMB for Bypass, Alt Drag for Duplicate, Ctrl LMB for Remove.
Conclusion
As a Swiss army knife, the tool is really hard to beat when it comes to all conceivable variations of audio ducking, for example. But as a fan of totally crazy things, after watching a few tutorials I built my own beatshredder based on the Frequency Shifter video. To make the chaos perfect, I added an impulse response reverb and a vocoder in parallel. You can use the gain modules to adjust the volume ratios of the modules. The impulse response reverb already provides a series of beautiful reverb reflections. But you can also equip it with your own samples.
So I pulled in a glitch sample from my library to get an even crazier sound. I was completely lost in the possible soundscapes and almost didn’t finish the article in time. Some examples of the rhythmic sounds my preset produces can be heard on my website postproduction-tutorials.net
to listen to.
Enrage costs 299 euros plus VAT. And as promised in the article, here is the code:
dp-enrage-20
gives 20% off ENRAGE in the shop at https://www.boomlibrary.com. Cannot be combined with other discounts. Valid until the end of January.
Happy sounding!
