EchoMelt - by Psychic Modulation (updated to v2.0)

[Darksynth FX]

Great plugin which gives life and movement to otherwise sterile and static sounds! Love the user interface and how fast it loads, also seems very CPU friendly. Instant retro fun!

[jack [psychicmodulation]]

An idea for the echo unit: an optional mode where the feedback control does not fade the signal out, but keeps all repetitions at the original level and then stops repeating completely when the time set is up. This way one could use the feedback knob to set for instance exactly 3 repetitions with increasing pitch.

This would require a midi note signal as a gate wouldn't it? Cool idea.

Or an audio threshold to trigger it.

Audio rather than midi triggering sounds more appropriate, but it might have more to do with timing than anything. Being it would be a time based event rather than in response to anything else. Meaning at a given time, the feedback loop stops. I'll definitely look into this at some point. I'd like to see the Echo go more into the direction of a 'jamming' tool, i.e. give it more 'playability' if that makes sense.

[jack [psychicmodulation]]

Great plugin which gives life and movement to otherwise sterile and static sounds! Love the user interface and how fast it loads, also seems very CPU friendly. Instant retro fun!

Great to hear! Have fun

[asksol]

AU Demo doesn't show up in Ableton Live on OS X 10.12.5 64bit? Same with Phonec, but Phonec VST works. Neither VST or AU of Echomelt loads up. Also installer package is from an unidentified developer, so have to force open from security settings, ugh.

[simmo75]

AU Demo doesn't show up in Ableton Live on OS X 10.12.5 64bit? Same with Phonec, but Phonec VST works. Neither VST or AU of Echomelt loads up. Also installer package is from an unidentified developer, so have to force open from security settings, ugh.

Both work fine for me on mac, Sierra in Ableton.
I don't think it's the demo, I think it's your system.
It's dope, bought!

[Richard deHove]

No good demo video out there? I always think a good demo vid takes the space between "vague interest" and "OK, I'll try the demo".

[deastman]

An idea for the echo unit: an optional mode where the feedback control does not fade the signal out, but keeps all repetitions at the original level and then stops repeating completely when the time set is up. This way one could use the feedback knob to set for instance exactly 3 repetitions with increasing pitch.

This would require a midi note signal as a gate wouldn't it? Cool idea.

Or an audio threshold to trigger it.

Audio rather than midi triggering sounds more appropriate, but it might have more to do with timing than anything. Being it would be a time based event rather than in response to anything else. Meaning at a given time, the feedback loop stops. I'll definitely look into this at some point. I'd like to see the Echo go more into the direction of a 'jamming' tool, i.e. give it more 'playability' if that makes sense.

I suppose another alternative would be to retrigger it with a tempo synced lfo. Really thought, this whole idea seems to be straying far afield from the original premise of the plugin. Perhaps better saved for some kind of sequenced effect?

[jack [psychicmodulation]]

AU Demo doesn't show up in Ableton Live on OS X 10.12.5 64bit? Same with Phonec, but Phonec VST works. Neither VST or AU of Echomelt loads up. Also installer package is from an unidentified developer, so have to force open from security settings, ugh.

The AU not showing up in Ableton is a known issue with Ableton not recognizing the plugin because it uses an AU wrapper. However, the VST version should show up fine. I've tested extensively on Ableton OS X with no issues. Maybe there's something going on with your security settings?

[jack [psychicmodulation]]

No good demo video out there? I always think a good demo vid takes the space between "vague interest" and "OK, I'll try the demo".

I'm working on one. Better late than never...

[jack [psychicmodulation]]

An idea for the echo unit: an optional mode where the feedback control does not fade the signal out, but keeps all repetitions at the original level and then stops repeating completely when the time set is up. This way one could use the feedback knob to set for instance exactly 3 repetitions with increasing pitch.

This would require a midi note signal as a gate wouldn't it? Cool idea.

Or an audio threshold to trigger it.

Audio rather than midi triggering sounds more appropriate, but it might have more to do with timing than anything. Being it would be a time based event rather than in response to anything else. Meaning at a given time, the feedback loop stops. I'll definitely look into this at some point. I'd like to see the Echo go more into the direction of a 'jamming' tool, i.e. give it more 'playability' if that makes sense.

I suppose another alternative would be to retrigger it with a tempo synced lfo. Really thought, this whole idea seems to be straying far afield from the original premise of the plugin. Perhaps better saved for some kind of sequenced effect?

Good point. I'm open to new ideas, and I'll toy with them and see where they go, but it's more of a background thing. My main focus with any updates is improving existing features, and extending any in order make the plugin better. I've got a few ideas for improving the Echo, and something like this might fit right in, or it may very well wind up in a completely different plugin.

[MogwaiBoy]

How about a randomize button?

And some offline oversampling on ye olde harmonics saturation.

[fluffy_little_something]

Another idea

A mini global LFO (triangle or sine) section, only a rate knob and a fade-in time knob would suffice.

Then add a forth line ("LFO") in the EQ so that one can use the LFO to modulate the gain of one or more of the five EQ bands. When one Gain slider is set to a positive value and that of another band to a negative value, and both are modulated by the LFO, that would mean that one frequency is boosted while another is attenuated, and vice versa. A kind of periodic sweep.
The forth line (LFO) would only include five on/off switches. The amount of the modulation per band would be determined by the set Gain value. A given positive or negative Gain value would mean that the modulation goes back and forth between that value and the inverse value.

You could also add an LFO option to the pitch Shift parameter so that the two bipolar knobs would set the LFO amount.

[jack [psychicmodulation]]

How about a randomize button?

And some offline oversampling on ye olde harmonics saturation.

Not too sure about oversampling, but patch randomization is something I plan to implement.

[jack [psychicmodulation]]

[fluffy_little_something]

Very nice demo, very 80's sound Which synth and drums did you use?