Anemond Sloom- Extreme time stretcher

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Testing Sloom with my own voice as live input, later also freezing the audio and checking out the spectral filter. This will be a great plug-in for live performances processing signals of live played instruments/vocals/spoken word, drawing in the spectral filter in real time in order to enhance/suppress certain areas of the audio signal yields interesting results.

That’s a great example Simon, it sounds very cool! It shows the kind of quick, tonal-shaping results that are possible with just a little effort. The spectral filter is capable of razor sharp precision and I really dig the way it sounds.

I was hesitant at first to think of Sloom in the context of a live performance since the results are somewhat unpredictable. But that could actually be perfect for those who enjoy a more experimental approach.

Having it’s output processed live using MPE (or automation) with an effect like accSone’s crusher-X, the granular playground, would create some extremely exotic audio sculptures. I can see that being very useful for sound design purposes as well. I’m glad to see that you’re enjoying it Simon!!

With a 5 minute long recording buffer Sloom can capture signals on the fly and keep them in the buffer until you manually delete it which is a great feature for live processing - and then you can send the signal to all sorts of other effect busses or use it as side-chain signal for FX playable via Midi (like e.g. crusher-X) - of course the latency/delay between input and out signal is huge if you set Sloom to its highest resolution like in my video (32.000+ bands). This will complement GRM Tools Evolution (which can be frozen), Grainspace (which also has a buffer freeze function with a maximum of 40 seconds) and crusher-X (60 second buffer).

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Live On Video-Improv using Sloom, GRM Tools Evolution, Infiltrator 2, ÜberMod, my voice and some Shakuhachi noises as live input material.

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I am very curious what this thing actually does when a sound is slowed down to the point of near zero resolution relative to the sample time. As part of my professional work, I have worked quite a bit on algorithms related to spectral estimation and signal modeling based on the estimated power spectrum (mostly images in my case). I guess what I am wondering is how much of the response it generates is due to the algorithm itself and how much comes from the input signal.

[kraster]

I am very curious what this thing actually does when a sound is slowed down to the point of near zero resolution relative to the sample time. As part of my professional work, I have worked quite a bit on algorithms related to spectral estimation and signal modeling based on the estimated power spectrum (mostly images in my case). I guess what I am wondering is how much of the response it generates is due to the algorithm itself and how much comes from the input signal.

When it get to that level it's just looping the last spectral bin depending on the resolution.

There is probably some interpolation between bins at faster speeds but I've noticed as you get to ridiculous levels there's just one bin played repeatedly regardless of speed.

I'd imagine that it's using something similar to Ircam's Super VP phase vocoding so a lot of the lushness you get from sloom is from the phase randomness control which effectively smears the signal.

Even the different algorithms seem to be just different levels of phase randomness that are independent of the phase randomness control.

For instance wide, narrow and robotic seem to be identical when phase randomness is at zero.

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Processing some tenor sax phrases (I recorded while practicing) with Sloom, first using the spectral filter in real time without time-stretching, B2 is providing some reverb.

[El°HYM]

Well done, Simon!

[Alchemedia]

How does Sloom compare to Steinberg's X-Stream?

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How does Sloom compare to Steinberg's X-Stream?

X-Stream (HALion/HAlion Sonic) is a great sounding, fully fledged synthesizer with filters, effects, modulators (LFO/MSEG) which you can actually play on a keyboard/Midi controller whereas Sloom is a great tool to stretch and spectrally process incoming audio signals or loaded wav files (using 4 different algorithms). The great thing about Sloom is that the spectral filter works in real time on incoming audio even without any time-stretching applied and the sound quality is really good.

[UltimiGiorniRecords]

Love it but unfortunately I was able to use it only as standalone. I use FL STUDIO 21 as my main DAW and there no way to get it recognised as generator/instrument, it loads only as an fx which I think that is not its purpose and so I can not use it with my keyboard. Anyone faced same issue?

[kinkajou]

BTW: it's on sale at the moment -> Black Friday 50%

[tonycore]

How does Sloom compare to Steinberg's X-Stream?

X-Stream (HALion/HAlion Sonic) is a great sounding, fully fledged synthesizer with filters, effects, modulators (LFO/MSEG) which you can actually play on a keyboard/Midi controller whereas Sloom is a great tool to stretch and spectrally process incoming audio signals or loaded wav files (using 4 different algorithms). The great thing about Sloom is that the spectral filter works in real time on incoming audio even without any time-stretching applied and the sound quality is really good.

Now, X-Stream fed INTO Sloom...now we're taking!

[tommyzai]

Sloop looks and sounds fantastic.

[c_voltage]

Omg omg
A new version of Sloom (v1.1) is now available. This update is free for all existing users.

Changes in version 1.1:
- Audio export as WAV file
- Playback head automation and MIDI mapping
- Fixed parameter automations when plugin window closed
- Fixed authentication errors in some Windows configurations

[morphex]

Omg omg
A new version of Sloom (v1.1) is now available. This update is free for all existing users.

Changes in version 1.1:
- Audio export as WAV file
- Playback head automation and MIDI mapping
- Fixed parameter automations when plugin window closed
- Fixed authentication errors in some Windows configurations

Right on! Playback head automation is something that I was hoping to see in an update. So thank you to Anemond!!

Sloom is such a cool effect, and is easily one of my favorite extreme stretching VST’s. For anyone who is interested, now would be a good time to pick it up, since it’s on sale for only 19 euros.

[gaf_thit]

And if you buy one plugin, you get good cross-/upgrade prices for the others.