Pretty Interesting VSTi. from one of my favorite plugin developers.. Looks like a good price point too.. $99
http://www.sugar-bytes.de...rium/index.php?lang=en
https://www.youtube.com/w...uah6284p8W&index=1

+1 looks interesting - vst host too. Nice. great developer - innovative and prolific.

I spent about an hour looking at this yesterday when I got the email from Sugar Bytes. I have purchased a lot of their synths and FX over the years, they certainly are prolific. This looks like the most creative thing they have done to date, and for 99 bucks? WOW.
 
 

Brando
+1 looks interesting - vst host too. Nice. great developer - innovative and prolific.

Notecrusher
I spent about an hour looking at this yesterday when I got the email from Sugar Bytes. I have purchased a lot of their synths and FX over the years, they certainly are prolific. This looks like the most creative thing they have done to date, and for 99 bucks? WOW.
 
 

Oh oh......I'm feeling a bit bloated now and an onset of a GAS attack slowly brewing.

I take two pills of I don't really need this and the GAS goes right away.  :)

MachineClaw
I take two pills of I don't really need this and the GAS goes right away.  :)

The mere definition of GAS has nothing to do with "need"......one must succumb to releasing it in order to be at inner peace.

I watched the video and didn't hear one single interesting sound come out of the thing. I LOVE stuff like this (Tantra is AWESOME), but I don't get this.
 
Perhaps they just need a better demo...

smallstonefan
I watched the video and didn't hear one single interesting sound come out of the thing. I LOVE stuff like this (Tantra is AWESOME), but I don't get this.
 
Perhaps they just need a better demo...

This is something that I think needs to be demo'd, IMO.
I love Sugar Bytes. Things like Effectrix are really valuable in terms of HOW they allow you to create a glitch/stuttered/effected sound. If you just compare how one beat SOUNDS compared with something like iZotope Stutter or NI's the finger, etc - there's nothing special to say you need one over another. Effectrix just makes it easier/and a more creative process. What's important is what the tool allows you to do. Cyclop is another great example of a totally unique (and fun) synth that is intended to be a creative way to make synth bass lines, etc. Nothing about the sound that you can't get another myriad of ways. Usually with a helluva lot more difficulty though. That's what I am expecting from Obscurium.
Sugar Bytes remind me a lot of Sonic Charge (the Microtonic guys) - great tools, very innovative. Reasonable prices.

I don't have any Sugar Bytes products (yet), but after reading your post Brando, I'm seriously considering a few. I like it when there's a description as "fun" involved in a plug.......certainly helps the creative process.

Cyclop (as an example) is wicked fun. (Built in video game, robots etc. LOL. The Sugar Bytes guys must have access to serious meds. It can easily be dismissed as a "dubstep" gizmo because so much of the basis for it is the "wobble" knob. Instant Skrillex. But the modulation possibilities are insane. And so even though it's a monophonic-only, bass-mostly synth, it finds its way into a lot of stuff (none of it dubstep) just because I like using it so much. Here's an objective review that came out shortly after its release (a couple of years now). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sdVemQJI3sc
Effectrix as an effect is the same for being versatile, and allowing a creative application of effects under midi control. I also own Thesys, Artillery and Turnado, none of which get as much mileage here as the others do but they all have their place.
I haven't yet tried Obscurium, but plan to definitely.