As well as being able to control when the effects are operational, each comes with additional parameters to tweak the exact sound. The X-loop, for example, is a looping effect with the built-in ability to shift pitch and buffer size, while the scratch loop offers a weird vinyl ‘stop and start’ sound.

Most of these should be fairly familiar, but a couple of them are slightly more leftfield. The ‘rainbow’-style colour scheme is also very appealing to look at and adds a welcome splash of colour, especially when compared to the drab, utilitarian look of most high-end VSTs.Īll in all, the Effectrix offers fourteen different effects: X-loop, loop, scratch loop, reverse, stretch, vinyl, tonal delay, stutter, crush, filter, phaser, chorus, delay and reverb. The sequencer layout looks reassuringly familiar, while the positioning of the parameter controls is equally commonsense.

In the case of the Effectrix, everything is crystal clear and very intuitive to use. It’s a very smart principle and, aside from dBlue's Glitch, still relatively rare.Īs always, the GUI (graphical user interface) is the first thing that strikes you when firing up a new plug-in. Setting when an effect comes into play simply consists of painting blocks onto the sequencer grid, the length of which can be as short as one bar, or as long as eight bars. So where most VSTs simply provide a single effect which stays ‘on’ throughout an entire track, the Effectrix allows you to control up to fourteen different effects and specify when the effects are in use across a 32-step sequencer. We recently took their WOW resonance filter out for a spin and loved every minute of it, so needless to say we were itching to get our hands on the Effectrix and see what the little beast is capable of!įor those unfamiliar with the Effectrix concept, it could best be described as an ‘effects sequencer’. The Sugar Bytes name might not have been around for as long as many of the heavyweight audio software developers out there, but this fact has done nothing to stop the Sugar Bytes folks from making a huge splash among producers looking for smart, innovative and even inspirational plug-ins.

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