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Ivan_C · Post by **Ivan_C** » Fri Mar 27, 2020 5:14 pm

I've been rushing like hell over the last two weeks to release a freeware plug-in today, made from some stuff in progress I've been working on these last months. I thought it would be a nice contribution to the world for musicians constrained at home during these very difficult times.

It's called "The Great Escape", and it's the modeling of a hardware pedal I discovered a few weeks ago, during an event called United Guitars, a dynamic tremolo audio effect which reacts to your playing thanks to an envelope detector circuit.

It became at some point a collaboration project between the original pedal creator, the french company Thrilltone, and me, and it is supposed to become a commercial product in the future. But still we thought it would be a good thing for everybody to release a free "preview" version earlier, which has no limitations but the features that I have not coded there yet, such as the full analog circuit modeling (yes it does not sound like the real one for now).

The only real downside is that I have to make it available only for a few months, and then I will remove it from my website, to prevent it from becoming a competitor for the upcoming commercial version. But all the people who will have the plug-in will be able to use it as long as they want.

Next week, I will finish to put there all the features I had in mind for the alpha/preview version, including an embedded tutorial like in Spaceship Delay, presets, installers (Catalinaaaaaaaaaaa), the AAX version and a Linux build.

Here is a video about the original pedal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcxGy_V ... e=youtu.be

Enjoy !

To download it, you can visit my website: https://musicalentropy.com/TheGreatEscape.html

I will probably add more information about the making of soon as well on my blog

Ivan_C · Post by **Ivan_C** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:00 pm

Already updated ! I have added the following features:

AAX format !
Presets made by Francois Maxime Boutault from Les Liens du Son and me !
Linux support ! (Ubuntu 16+ 64 bits)
Some optimizations and issues solved such as the one in the easter egg (STAYATHOME)

Next week, I'll work on the installers, mac OS Catalina support and the embedded tutorial

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:11 pm

Thanks Ivan_C

metalifuxx · Post by **metalifuxx** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:59 pm

Cool trem. The symmetry control does some interesting stuff to how the wave envelopes reacts, creating some almost violin like volume swells.

Ivan_C · Post by **Ivan_C** » Mon Apr 06, 2020 6:25 pm

Thanks guys ! Still working hard on the next update

onerob · Post by **onerob** » Tue Apr 07, 2020 5:41 pm

This is working for me in Catalina already. I have Gatekeeper disabled, so that's probably why.

Ivan_C · Post by **Ivan_C** » Fri Apr 10, 2020 4:18 pm

Hello guys ! I have just updated my plug-in to version 0.1.2, it is still available on my website

The new version features mainly a new embedded tutorial system, like what I did in Spaceship Delay, which will make you learn cool stuff about tremolos, help you familiarize yourself with the plug-in features. Since we are in April, there is a new easter egg there

I did solve also a few bugs here and there...

And I think it should now work for everybody on mac OS Catalina since I have signed all the formats, even with Gatekeeper enabled, but I'm not sure yet since I have not tested it yet.

Have fun !

Ivan_C · Post by **Ivan_C** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 4:38 pm

Hello guys !

For all the people using the Linux version, could you tell me if the very last version of the Great Escape (0.1.2) is working properly ? A user told me this version crashes on Ubuntu 19.10 with Mixbus 32c, not the older one, but I have not been able to reproduce the issue with Ubuntu 16/18 and Waveform / Bitwig Studio / Mixbus 32c on these platforms.

Thanks in advance !

acousticglue · Post by **acousticglue** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:56 am

I was interested first demo but the trem movements were too deep to shutting off point

Obsolete462444 · Post by **Obsolete462444** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 3:58 pm

Nice!

Kott · Post by **Kott** » Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:21 am

Ivan_C wrote: ↑Tue Apr 14, 2020 4:38 pm Hello guys !

For all the people using the Linux version, could you tell me if the very last version of the Great Escape (0.1.2) is working properly ? A user told me this version crashes on Ubuntu 19.10 with Mixbus 32c, not the older one, but I have not been able to reproduce the issue with Ubuntu 16/18 and Waveform / Bitwig Studio / Mixbus 32c on these platforms.

Thanks in advance !

Hi!
Works perfect on openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling). Haven't Mixbus 32C but other popular hosts is fine.

Obsolete462444 · Post by **Obsolete462444** » Thu Apr 16, 2020 7:48 am

Ivan_C, since you are here I wanted to ask: are there still plans for an updated version of Spaceship Delay at some point?

Ivan_C · Post by **Ivan_C** » Thu Apr 16, 2020 3:50 pm

Thanks for the reports !

Kazi7 > yes I plan to update Spaceship Delay at some point, again I have big plans for it, and I have already quite advanced on the things I wanted to add there (UI, new algorithms etc.), but it's always difficult for me to find some time for now to work on my personal projects. So I can't give an ETA, but I would love to release it this year.

Musical Entropy The Great Escape