AudioDamage AD061 Descent won't let me off the hook.
It's a granular delay/reverb #plugin that is a lot of fun. However, I now found out that what I'd like to have is something that is more related to the granular delay in my beloved #Soma #Cosmos “Drifting Memory Station”.
The big deep bass #drone to rule them all, with sparkling mid-high freq stars!
So, adding to yesterday's video, I added a stereo auto panner and a looper. The #Guitarix looper isn't that great to use, for real fun I'd need to get my AKAI button controller to interact.
It's the first time I am considering taking a PC-based setup on stage one fine day. The sound is just too great…
I usually use a simple Mooer RedTruck for playing fretless bass live, but in comparison to the FX by TC and the Eden WTDI + Descent plugin, it sounds cheap.
Check out yesterday's gear porn nerdcore #LinuxAudio video: makertube.net/w/hMwaXVNb1mTMGM…
#GranularDelay #Bass #BassGuitar #FretlessBass #AudioDamage #AudioDamageDescent #SomaCosmos #Linux #LinuxProAudio
Nielso
in reply to Nielso • • •🧵 Still amazed by this granular delay plugin, AudioDamage AD061 Descent.
I had tried a setup that resembles my #Soma #Cosmos effect engine in the preceding toot. However, the #Guitarix looper is kinda difficult for me. So I remembered there is a quite crazy #looper for #vcvRack. Thus I tried to re-implement the entire #Carla-based setup in #VCV.
It is very easy to use MIDI controllers in VCV. (Guitarix looper was horrible for that.)
It sort of worked. What's difficult perhaps for many people, the routing and controlling, is easy for me as a nerd. VCV has plenty of interesting modules to do whatever to your audio signals.
Yet what it really doesn't have that much is decent equalizers, or a working noise gate. So it's time for rack as a VST host again. And… it doesn't really like to run multi-threaded on my system. My PC is an Xeon with weak single core performance, but using all its 16 CPU cores, it is a beast… mh.
Unsure which route to follow. Plus, the looper in VCV is somewhat idiosyncratic, too.
Thomas
in reply to Nielso • • •If you feel like the solution might be to acquire more gear, you might have a look at #Zynthian. They implemented the #SooperLooper engine and you can run plugins via Carla.
zynthian.org/
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in reply to Thomas • • •@tm
I am actually a post-zynthian person. But that was some years ago…
… after some interesting crashes of VCV rack I might as well just do voodoo to get #GxLooper midi-controlled for my crazy ideas.
It turns out, that while @falktx created a pretty sturdy plugin host with Carla, @x42 has given us some neat MIDI tweaking plugins. These might actually manage to translate from my #Akai #LPD8 to what #Guitarix #Looper needs.
Nielso
in reply to Nielso • • •🧵 #MIDI madness for controlling #Guitarix #Looper from my #Akai #LPD8…
The Akai's touch buttons / drum pads can send Note, CC or Program Change. #Carla needs MIDI CC to control plugins, #gxLiveLooper needs one-shot messages for erasing tracks, yet it needs something on-off for recording. Basically: “hold the rec button” – but how, I need my hands to play, so I need to toggle that.
Solution: Set Akai controller to note mode. Split the “keyboard” so that the upper 4 keys/drum pads get passed on straight in channel 9, and the lower 4 run in channel 10, to which MIDI Note Toggle reacts. Then con
... Show more...🧵 #MIDI madness for controlling #Guitarix #Looper from my #Akai #LPD8…
The Akai's touch buttons / drum pads can send Note, CC or Program Change. #Carla needs MIDI CC to control plugins, #gxLiveLooper needs one-shot messages for erasing tracks, yet it needs something on-off for recording. Basically: “hold the rec button” – but how, I need my hands to play, so I need to toggle that.
Solution: Set Akai controller to note mode. Split the “keyboard” so that the upper 4 keys/drum pads get passed on straight in channel 9, and the lower 4 run in channel 10, to which MIDI Note Toggle reacts. Then convert anything note to CC using MIDI Note to CC.
Let's see of this works in a little jam…
Note that I do not intend to do a timed looping performance like these many YouTube artists overdoing Ableton Live, I need drone sounds from bass guitar to be fed into #AudioDamage #Descent #GranularDelay, so timing is not that relevant.
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Nielso
in reply to Nielso • • •@tm @falktx @x42
… having figured that out I would like to say… it would be beautiful if someone did a basic plugin clone of the old Boss RC-303 looper. This hardware unit was so easy to use. Yet it was only 16bit and had some bugs and the I/O was too limited, so I sold mine long time ago.
@amadeus – is there a plugin wish list? 🤪
EDIT: It's actually Boss RC-300. Roland 303 was something else.
Amadeus Paulussen
in reply to Nielso • • •Amadeus Paulussen
in reply to Amadeus Paulussen • • •@tm @falktx @x42 Did you ever had a look at Giada? I wanted to give it a try since a while, but… no time! 🫣
giadamusic.com/
Giada - Your Hardcore Loop Machine
giadamusic.comErcanbrack
in reply to Amadeus Paulussen • • •@amadeus @tm @falktx @x42
Giada is awesome!! It's incredibly powerful, and very simple. 😊