Blue Cat Audio - Spinal Vibe

Spinal Vibe is Blue Cat Audio's rotary speaker plugin. It gives you up to three spinning speakers with independent control over how each one moves and sounds, so it does the classic organ cabinet and a whole lot of modulation effects besides.

How it works

A real rotary cabinet's sound comes from Doppler pitch shift, amplitude modulation and filtering as the speaker turns. Spinal Vibe lets you set the amount of each separately, per speaker, along with rotation speed and curve, acceleration and deceleration, phase, direction, volume and stereo placement. The crossover filters between speakers are adjustable too. A simple slow/fast control and a brake handle performance, and the rotation can be synced to tempo.

The sound

Classic organ swirl, a chewy guitar Leslie tone, or blend the dry signal back in for phasey cancellation effects. Push the settings and it becomes a very different beast: rhythmic, pulsing, three-dimensional modulation on pads and synths.

Where it fits

Organs and electric pianos first, then guitars, synths and anything that needs movement. Multicore processing keeps the CPU load down.

Features

• Advanced rotary speaker emulation with up to 3 speakers
• Slow and fast speeds with per-speaker acceleration and deceleration
• Brake control and tempo sync
• Per-speaker phase, direction, volume and stereo control
• Independent Doppler, tremolo and filter amounts
• Adjustable crossover frequency and slope
• Tone maps preset explorer
• Multicore processing

System requirements

• Mac: macOS 10.9 or later, Intel or Apple Silicon
• Windows: Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10 or 11, SSE2 processor
• VST, VST3, AU (Mac only) and AAX

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