Transhaper is a transient designer/shaper which works much like a compressor without a selectable ratio - instead it does not alter the dynamics of the sound but rather the transients. When the original sound is mixed in the effect can in fact increase the dynamics whereas a compressor reduces the dynamics.
Some tests were done on old recordings done on tape recorders, with guitars and flutes - an increase in legibility of the music was dramatic.
Other uses for this type of effect is to produce tight kick drums for trance, remove the reverb tail from sounds, noise gates etc. the list goes on - it doesn't actually do much to the sound but it does a lot to your dynamics.
Technical explaination:
Two envelope followers measure the volume of the incoming sound, one set much higher than the other, these then are taken away from each other to provide the volume result. From this volume result, linearity can be adjusted from exponential to linear volumes. A gain stage follows for extreme settings this is required.
As always, we provide stereo-vu meters with red for right, blue for left within the same unit allowing ease of monitoring on both inputs and outputs.
Yemski
Sounds a lot like dominion, transient designer, and Transient X ,all of which I have used and loved ( a lot) . This sort of dynamics processing is unusual, and it’s good to see someone working in this manner. It would be interesting to have a side chain facillity, all sort of unusual results would happen if the main sound could be modulated by another. It would also give a unique feature to an already rare process.
