The Abbey Road name has been associated with various plugins down the years, but Waves is claiming that its new Abbey Road Reel ADT is the first one to emulate the studio's pioneering process of artificial double tracking.

The technique was famously used by The Beatles, and involved connecting the primary tape machine to a second, speed-controlled machine so that two versions of the same signal could be played back simultaneously. The frequency of an oscillator was then gently wobbled to vary the speed of the second tape machine, making it sound like a separate take.

The effect was created by Abbey Road engineer Ken Townsend, and John Lennon is said to have referred to it as "Ken's flanger".

Reel ADT promises to let you achieve the effect quickly and easily, enabling you to advance or delay the doubled signal to achieve delay and pitch variations. You can also drive each of the signals separately to add tape saturation, and there are wow and flutter controls, too.

Specs are below. Waves Abbey Road Reel ADT will be available in native formats only, but we don't yet know its price.

Waves Abbey Road Reel ADT features
Developed in association with Abbey Road Studios
Genuine tape-sounding ADT plugin
For the first time ever, a full exact recall automation of the ADT effect
Different tape sounds for source and ADT signals
Exclusive 2-voice component
Separate drive control for each path
Manual and automatic control
MIDI-assignable manual control for the most authentic user experience possible







Waves MetaFilter is designed for sound shaping, being based around a modulatable multimode filter that uses the company's proprietary Virtual Voltage technology.

Promising the "warmth, depth and fatness of classic analog filters," combined with "the modern control and endless flexibility" of contemporary plugins, MetaFilter enables you to modulate the filter cutoff, resonance and delay time using a 16-step sequencer, LFO and Envelope follower.

By doing this you can create effects such as filter sweeping, tremolo, auto-wah, rhythmic gating, ducking and modulating delays with saturation buildups.

MetaFilter supports MIDI Learn, and you can actually play the filter cutoff from your MIDI keyboard.

Waves MetaFilter is available in now in native formats at the introductory price of $99 (usual price is $200).

Waves MetaFilter features
Three separate modulators: 16-step sequencer, LFO and Envelope follower
"Fat" analog sound quality
Intuitive MIDI Learn
Fully modulatable analog delay
Powered by Virtual Voltage technology
Endless sound-shaping possibilities

 

Nice stuff But'' they need to Make a Vocal alinement Plugin That's just about the only type of Plugin they don'r have

 

i wish they make something more like soundtoys plugins ...already like this Metafilter

 

i can't Wait to get the Waves Digigrid ios interface that runs all the Waves Plugins like the UA Apollo dose for there plugins

 

Is this true? does it run native plugins? I checked out the digigrid site but it totally confused the shiz out of me. Whats the deal with the ethernet connection?