Being a non-endorsed imitation, The Glue is free from the requirement of rigorously replicating the original, and Cytomic has taken the opportunity to include some additional features that you won't find on the real thing. Equivalent circuits of groups of linear components are pre-computed to save CPU, along with a bunch of other optimisations so that the model can run hundreds of thousands of times per second. But these are all pretty expensive, so the arrival of Cytomic's effort, The Glue, at a very reasonable 99, certainly caught our attention. For example if you buy The Glue for 99 you get a discount voucher you can to buy The Drop for. The continuous circuit equations are discretised using MNA (Modified Nodal Analysis) and then solved for using quasi Newton-Raphson iterations to converge on a solution. Cytomic was founded by Andrew and Emma Simper in 2007. One of these is the 'Glue Compressor' - but when would you actually use it. We use the same methods used in circuit simulators, but optimised to run fast. If you're in a DAW like Ableton, you might have different options for compressors. A straight line can be said to model a circle under certain conditions, but when what you actually wanted was a circle and were given a straight line you wouldn't be happy! So we don't blame you if you think analog modelling plugins are a load of BS, since some of the stuff you've tried probably was.Ĭytomic models circuits by preserving the location and connection of all the critical components in it. The term “analog modelling” is pretty broad, anything can be termed a model of something no matter how bad the model is.