The effect you've always dreamed of?

[butter]

Can you hook me up with a link for that aciddose? I know the Buzz stuff but can I use it outside of Buzz?

[Reverse Engineer]

I'd like an effect where i feed in a sinewave and a top 10 hit comes out the other end.

[bduffy]

bduffy: lush chorus? you have to do the pre/post eq yourself, but i made one of those, http://xhip.cjb.net/ xhipeffects..

http://xhip.cjb.net/temp/xhipchorus.mp3

exactly what about a chorus makes it 'beautiful, lush' ? what problems can you identify with mine?

some people say "this is the best chorus i've ever heard" while others say "this will be useful for weird effects but it isnt a standard chorus"

yes, it isnt standard, that is why it sounds better. the controls do not operate the same as a normal chorus, but used correctly it works awesome. this sounds better than any other chorus i've used, digital or analog on everything i try it with. used on guitar it sounds absolutely awesome. you just have to know how to set it up right.

Hey, Aciddose. I realize what I've stated is very subjective, I'll try to elaborate: I find pretty much all available choruses to sound flangey/phasey or there is just too much warping going on. I find most people are going for "classic" or "vintage" choruses that have too much of that searing phasing or a warbly sound. I'm after a cleaner, more glassy, waterlike tone (ha ha, so much for subjective terms!). I'm also primarily interested in chorus for guitar, and I think a lot of the choruses available are intended primarily for the synth user, perhaps.

I don't know if any of that makes sense or not. I think I posted this before...

That being said, your chorus sounds incredible! Very nice indeed...perhaps my dreams are answered...

thanks for helping out.

[JackDark]

I'd like an effect where i feed in a sinewave and a top 10 hit comes out the other end.

I've seen something like that before.

[The Chase]

Very, very hard to explain: a bit-crusher that doesnt sound so digital

[shamann]

Would that even be a bitcrusher, then, since it merely exploits a digital process? A bit like saying I'd like a crimson shirt that doesn't look so red.

[The Chase]

lol exactly. The kinda sound i have in my head is hard to explain. Kinda like a bit crusher with a hard/soft knob.

[aciddose]

chase; you mean you want a 'bitcrusher' (quantiser) with a fractional number of levels or 'bits' and maybe dither. perhaps also a sample and hold with a correct anti-aliasing filter pre/post selectable?

i have this on the way, it'll be with the next xhip/xhipeffects release in some time.

[jackson]

lol exactly. The kinda sound i have in my head is hard to explain. Kinda like a bit crusher with a hard/soft knob.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I'd also like more sophisticated control over the harmonics produced by downsampling on bitcrushers. It's often impossible to tune them correctly.

[shamann]

lol exactly. The kinda sound i have in my head is hard to explain. Kinda like a bit crusher with a hard/soft knob.

In such cases where it is hard to describe an effect, I find it useful to make a chain of effects that ought to get me there. So for instance take your favourite bitcrusher, follow it with something like tBt's Saturated driver, see what you get, then refine the process until you have it right. Then you'll know that you want that process in a more streamlined build. Sometimes you'll find that you don't need the compact form of the effect once you have the chain worked out.

[jackson]

Aciddose - would it be possible to add the feature I just mentioned above? By using fractional amounts for downsampling as well as bit reduction, instead of the usual 1x, 2x, etc.

Mike

[aciddose]

a friend asked me to design a voltage controlled analog quantiser and sample and hold for him. only after comming up with an extremely complex working design, he found out he would be better off just to use a sample and hold. that was a piss off

if you've ever seen me angry about people using the word analog incorrectly, well, this is why.

he probably would have been fine with a pic used as a dsp doing that too...

[aciddose]

jackson; yeah, it is possible but would be very cpu intensive. basically it would just involve sampling at fractional points using spline or sinc reconstruction, and then rebuilding the waveform using sinc.

when i said very, i ment, get yourself a supercomputer and we'll talk.

for an example, get yourself an audio editor and resample a 96k recording to 92.63k or something. it'll take that long in a plugin too, not realtime as you can see.

[shamann]

i have this on the way, it'll be with the next xhip/xhipeffects release in some time.

Yay!

I'd also like more sophisticated control over the harmonics produced by downsampling on bitcrushers. It's often impossible to tune them correctly.

That's interesting. You often hear in discussions about old digital synths/samplers that the engineers did some fancy jiggerypokery with the D/A conversions to produce aliasing of a less unpleasant nature (more even harmonics). That in a bit reducer would be excellent.

[Watto]

I'd really like the PERFECT wah emulation - I know it's a bit obscure, but I find so many uses for wah, including my favourite, which is finding a point on the sweep and using it on a piano sound.

It'd be GREAT if there was an awesome sounding (really dirty) wah with a few emulation choices, etc.

b.