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Sugar Bytes Wow €79

It's got a spectacular name, but Sugar Bytes' filter plug-in is most notable for its mightily impressive sound.

The MusicRadar Team, Thu 21 Feb 2008, 4:28 pm UTC

You should have no trouble locating WOW's cutoff knob.

Manufacturer's description

The Modulation System is versatile but intuitive. The modulation signals can be mixed individually for each parameter but also can modulate each other. So for example, the LFO-rate can be modulated by the Envelope Follower, while the Stepsequencer modulates the Envelope Follower´s Gain...here is some really big potential for grooving, moving, unheard effects.

When we developed the Filter Algorithm we spent special attention on a linear Amplitude response over the whole frequency spectrum for a fat filter sound and a perfect vowel sound. The brandnew Band Crusher and LF Crusher filters put the audio signal to the same samplerate frequency as the cutoff frequency. The Band Reject filter eliminates a wide band and gives you juicy filter sounds without losing high or low end.

Besides the classical filter types, WOW contains the Vowel Mode which makes everything talk what you feed through WOW.

The Overdrive will drive your signal into the red and enlarges the harmonic spectrum, which gives the filter some yummy candy and makes it sound aggressive while keeping analogue warmth and high end.

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MusicRadar rating

4.5 of 5

Pros

Brilliantly authentic filters. Modulations galore. Envelope follower is great fun. Step sequencer rocks. Good selection of useful presets.

Cons

We'd like more vowels. Some might not pay this much for a filter.

The bottom line

We thought we'd seen and heard it all as far as filters go, but WOW raises the bar once again.

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