Gentle Electric soft machines
This morning, before my morning writing period, I had the idea of recreating some of the analog modules I made during the Gentle Electric analog period as VST/DXI software plugins. The three I was thinking about doing were the "pipe" (an interestingly controllable delay with feedback, which can produce the sound of a reverberant or even oscillating pipe of any size from a whistle to a culvert; the linear control FM audio oscillator, allowing one sound to control the frequency of another in a way that doesn't cause pitch shift, and which can produce a whole range of sounds hard to produce in other ways; and of course the Gentle Electric/AFI pitch and envelope follower, which has had previous incarnations as an analog synth component and a PC plugin card. If I were to do these, I'm not sure yet whether the pitch follower would be best to be live/realtime but monophonic and a bit lower quality, or to do it out of realtime (wav in, midi file out, or something) and allow a lot of computation time to get it really well done. I never got around to making a MIDI hardware version. Would have been nice. Maybe still will someday.
2 Comments:
ooh ooh yeah yeah do this!! but first, check out Antares's Kantos. it sounds a bit like the second one you described. antares is in scotts valley. i'm sure it would be easy to check it out.
wow, this all flew right over my little head.
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