Xfer Records LFO Tool Free Download WIN/MAC

You can use LFOTool for:

1. triggered enveloping – latest version has ENV switch, route MIDI to this for a pattern-triggered envelope on any audio signal. I use this instead of trying to get punch out of compressors or transient shapers, or in place of trying to get gates to do what I want.

2. drawing custom ducking/”sidechain” compression. You could automate a volume clip in Ableton Live but this is incredibly arduous the way Live works – either you’re duplicating automation on the timeline (uggh, no thanks) or you have it in a clip (which is fine if your source track is a solid clip, looping or otherwise, but once you start having regions, well, let’s just say Live could benefit from Aliases like Logic has).

3. custom filter types. LFOTool now has formant filters, and I often use some of the combs or phases to carve separation between elements in a mix that are fighting.

4. beat-synced oscilliscope. Sometimes it is nice to see what is happening on a waveform in 1/4, 1/8, or 1/16 resolution (lets you see swing, decay of a kick drum, etc) and sometimes scuplt simultaneously.

5. crossover processing. It’s certainly nice to be able to e.g. “sidechain comp” the low freqs of a bassline without affecting the top. This is possible in Live without LFOTool I suppose (with abusing the Multiband comp on several instances in a rack to freq split), but I’ve never been bothered to try that and verify phase coherence (and even then, you’d probably not want to get the LFO with an auto-pan plugin, so back to the automation hell).

6. Pattern Gate FX – This is something I did alot on the XFERSCD01 (almost all the CymbalFX have a ton of LFOTool’s going on). Hold down shift on LFOTool graph, draw step 16ths, apply this to filter, make another graph or LFOTool instance do some slow panning, etc… just a quick way to give rhythm and space to something.

Xfer Records LFO Tool Free Download