Elysia Phils Cascade 1.1

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Elysia Phils Cascade 1.1 macOS Incl Patched and Keygen-R2R

Phil’s Cascade is based on highly esoteric vintage components combined in a truly unique circuitry. It is anything but your typical audio processor. Phil’s Cascade is an amazing toolbox which will open the world for creating the most interesting sound flavors.

The beauty of this approach is that it did not have to follow any rules at all. Phil’s Cascade uses very interesting NOS (New Old Stock) components which are everything but standard in audio applications, and the novel circuitry is a creative celebration of its own. All in all, this gives you the perfect basis for creating truly wonderful, new and unheard sounds.

Now you can spice up virtual and natural instruments at ease, transmuting standard sounds with all kinds of gritty, organic and aged flavours. There are no right or wrong settings: Saturation, harmonics, distortion, colouration, filtering, interaction, anything goes, and experimenting is as much encouraged as it is rewarding.

Like every elysia plugin released so far, Phil‘s Cascade has been modelled on real analogue hardware. However, this one has been exclusively planned, designed and built to become a plugin! Painstaking analysis and modelling of circuit and component behaviors finally made this monster become available for your DAW.

There can be only one. What a pity, but you can rest assured that the hardware will never go into serial production. Most of the parts are so rare that they would last for just a handful of units, with environmental restrictions forbidding to use them in new products anyway, and the price point for this beast would be pretty demanding as well, to say the least.

All components used for Phil‘s Cascade were made when we were kids (or not even born yet) by legendary brands like Philips, Sprague, Erdmet, Wima and PSW the very best of New Old Stock.

FEATURES

Components

Experiencing true vintage sound goodness from a 21st-century device relies on A) the exclusive use of components made decades ago and B) using them in old-school topologies with some interesting twists.

Transformers

The NE and NX series transformers made by Philips in 1975 were actually never meant to be used in audio environments. However, first experiments quickly revealed they perform like real rock stars, now building the core ingredients forming the unique sound of Phil’s Cascade. There definitively is a lot of iron in this signal path!

Tubes

Beyond the few tube types which are still available for serial production these days, the rabbit hole of weird, amazing and yes, magic NOS tubes couldn’t be any deeper. All made by Philips a long time ago, the ECC91, EF183 and EF86 are everything but your typical audio tubes and that’s exactly what makes them so valuable, as their special sound signature is plain and simple, unique.

Power

Hardware rule #1: The heart of any audio device shall be its power supply! The 12 lb. power transformer used for Phil’s Cascade originally comes from vintage Tektronix measuring equipment, surviving the times when even this was based on tubes exclusively. With its many windings and taps, this mothership of a transformer is perfect for a multi tube-driven project.

Capacitors

Old electrolytic caps can really suck. These, however, are in still in great shape. Made by Roederstein (ROE) way before the company was acquired by Vishay and in a time when even ‘smaller’ capacities came in a considerable footprint. Anyway, this batch of truly beautiful caps offer all the capacity needed for Phil’s Cascade – and then some!

Rotary cap

What a stunning piece of engineering art! Rotary capacitors like this were used in old tube radios. What a beast for realizing just a single function. The scale is especially stunning on this one, and as a wonderful detail, it is backlit by a small E10 light bulb. After a little bit of modification, this historic piece became the central gain controller and an indicator of Phil’s Cascade.

Knobs

Phil’s Cascade is controlled by a set of authentic bakelite knobs, made in the US many decades ago. Just a few of the knobs in this batch (a lucky find) were in such great condition, only showing signs of their respective age, but no significant discolourations or cracks. Against the odds, not only two different sizes but also a single On/Off knob were found inside the dusty old box.

Light

Some icing on the cake. This pilot light is very rare new old stock made around the 1950s. It shines a truly significant shape of light, and it perfectly fits the aesthetics of the exclusive housing designed for Phil’s Cascade. But the wildest aspect about it is the light intensity which can be dimmed down mechanically, until just a super tiny spot in the middle of the lens remains.

SPECIFICATION

Supported Plugin Formats

AAX Native, AU, AAX AudioSuite, VST2, VST3

Web Site: https://www.plugin-alliance.com/en/products/elysia_phils_cascade.html

What’s New in Elysia Phils Cascade 1.1

• Release notes not available at the time of this post.

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