Tom
Three toms, three maps
Rack 1 defaults to 200 Hz, Rack 2 to 110 Hz and Floor to 80 Hz. The trough starts at 2.2, 2.9 or 3.5 times Tune, so it always begins above the second overtone.
Tom channel · VST3 · AU
Visioääni TomRack, rack, floor.
A tom is not a small snare. Toms have a strong fundamental, a clear second overtone and a wide, low tail above them, so this plugin is built around that.
Pick Rack 1, Rack 2 or Floor. The choice sets the derived frequencies: the default Tune, the start of the Nevada trough and the stick band all move with it.
What it does
Nevada
A wide trough above the note
Tom mud covers the whole 200–600 Hz area, so Nevada is a wide trough instead of a narrow notch. Its effect on the fundamental is measured and given back as a low shelf.
Stick
Attack through a tube
Attack adds the stick through the same tube stage as the kick's click, triggered from the tom's own fundamental and set subtle by default.
Room
The middle of the chamber
The chamber send covers 250 Hz – 1 kHz with the first 20 ms faded, so you get the sustain of the chamber without its early slap. Floor toms get more of it.
Controls
The front panel, left to right and top to bottom. Every control reads 0–10. DEEP adds: Gate Fine, Comp, Attack Fine, Detail, Sync.
| Module | Controls | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Tom | Rack 1 · Rack 2 · Floor | The drum type. Sets the derived frequencies. |
| Gate | Gate · Tail | Keeps cymbal and snare spill out between hits. |
| Tone | Tune · Body | The drum's note and a wide body boost (fundamental plus first overtone). |
| Nevada | Nevada | Wide trough above the second overtone. |
| Stick | Attack · Excite | Stick attack through a tube stage. |
| Hit | Dynamite · Violence | Attack and tail length. |
| Room | Room · Orgasm | Chamber middle, amount per tom type. |
| America | America | + body at 120 Hz, − trough at 500 Hz, + stick at 3.5 kHz. |
| Satellite | Listen · Link · Amount | Removes hi-hat bleed using the Hihat + Cymbal plugin as the reference. |
| Out | Level · Ceiling · Mix | Look-ahead limiter and dry/wet. |
Measured
Three toms, defaults only, share of energy per band.
| Tom | 60–120 Hz | 120–250 Hz | 250–600 Hz | Stick | Tail |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High tom, raw | 25.0 % | 42.8 % | 23.7 % | 2.4 % | 28.7 ms |
| High tom, done | 6.4 % | 69.3 % | 15.8 % | 3.5 % | 15.7 ms |
| Mid tom, raw | 53.4 % | 33.5 % | 3.3 % | 4.6 % | 172.9 ms |
| Mid tom, done | 51.7 % | 23.5 % | 1.0 % | 10.4 % | 219.7 ms |
| Floor tom, raw | 55.1 % | 43.1 % | 0.4 % | 1.0 % | 123.6 ms |
| Floor tom, done | 66.2 % | 25.1 % | 0.4 % | 4.7 % | 157.9 ms |
Specifications
- Formats
- VST3 (Windows, macOS) · AU (macOS)
- Systems
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit · macOS 11 or later, Apple silicon and Intel
- Sample rates
- 44.1 to 192 kHz
- Latency
- 1856 samples (38.7 ms at 48 kHz), fixed, reported to the host
- CPU
- 7.9 % of one core per instance at 48 kHz
- Version
- 1.4.0
Questions about Tom
Does Sync flip a tom's polarity?
No. Toms are only moved in time. If the best sum would need a flip, the tom is not moved at all, because a shift without the flip made the sum worse in our measurements.
I have four toms. Which type do I use?
Use Rack 1 for the highest rack tom, Rack 2 for the others on the rack and Floor for floor toms. Then set Tune by ear for each drum.
Works with
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