What is the best plug in to emulate the sound that a good transformer produces in audio?
 
What about a cheap (yet usable) one?
 
I've seen, e.g., an EQ plug in that also has this feature but I can't recall its name. I mean if it's good and cheap enough you could bypass the EQ part and have it just for "transformer-izing".

Go to MeldaProduction.com there are about 74 different plugins and there's likely one to suit your purpose.

They have a forum at KVR.

Jyri T.
What is the best plug in to emulate the sound that a good transformer produces in audio?
 
What about a cheap (yet usable) one?
 
I've seen, e.g., an EQ plug in that also has this feature but I can't recall its name. I mean if it's good and cheap enough you could bypass the EQ part and have it just for "transformer-izing".

Metric Halo "Character" does this...and it's half off the already reduced Price of $75 at JRRShop
 
https://www.jrrshop.com/add-to-cart-for-50-off/metric-halo-character

$37.50 in cart price...

Here's the product Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgu3JWrHe3I

Forgot to mention...it kills Sonar Platinum....
SP doesn't seem to like the MH Plugins...be advised...
and it's a CPU hog....

You could try Tessla from Bootsy - it's free
https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/vst-effects/
 
 
 
 

cclarry
Forgot to mention...it kills Sonar Platinum....
SP doesn't seem to like the MH Plugins...be advised...
and it's a CPU hog....

Oh poop, I already got it... :(

Jyri T.

cclarry
Forgot to mention...it kills Sonar Platinum....
SP doesn't seem to like the MH Plugins...be advised...
and it's a CPU hog....

Oh poop, I already got it... :(

I'm hoping there is a fix for this soon.  None of my MH Plugins work
in Sonar, but they work fine in SO3 and Pro Tools, and all my other
DAW's...

cclarry
I'm hoping there is a fix for this soon.  None of my MH Plugins work
in Sonar, but they work fine in SO3 and Pro Tools, and all my other
DAW's...

Yup, this is what their support told me.
 
Thanks for your email.  At the moment we are aware of an incompatibility with Sonar X3e. We are in touch with
Cakewalk, who has informed us they will look into it when they have a chance. We are hopeful we can add compatibility
in a future update of the Production Bundle. Please stay in touch.

I don't know if any of SONAR's channel strip or compressor plugins have a transformer emulation, but I do have one via Slate Digital's FG-401 VCA Compressor in the Virtual Mix Rack (VMR). I suspect other channel strip plugins do, as well. If you have an iLok2, you can get a demo version of VMR. Then, run your signal through the compressor with all controls zeroed out (i.e., NO compression), but with the transformer engaged (it's switchable).
 
http://www.slatedigital.com/products/vmr

VMR is the BOMB Diggity!