Quilcom GRECHO: A "Granular" echo device
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2018 9:48 am
Hello ‘stoners!
I made the Quilcom GRECHO after spending much time experimenting with circular asynchronous write/read buffers for audio.
It’s NOT a regular echo device by any means, so to get an idea of what it can do you can watch my YouTube demo here:
https://youtu.be/5D9LaNUtpZ0
Download:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/etcau28cvjjsg ... 2.zip?dl=0
Originally I’d planned to have preset grain lengths and clear the buffers for every change of time selection.
However I found it more fun to have a fully variable control. The downside is that this can cause discontinuities in some circumstances. If there is audio running in the buffers, the change in length can cause crackling, for example when playing with high feedback levels or increasing the grain length to cover previous sound, or transitions from sound to silence. So it’s not zipper noise!
If you select a grain length and then leave it untouched, or change grain lengths with no sound in the buffers, there’ll be no crackling.
I think of it as a kind of creative toy rather than a “proper” effect, but I hope you have a bit of fun messing around with it.
As always, all comments welcome!
Cheers
Spogg
I made the Quilcom GRECHO after spending much time experimenting with circular asynchronous write/read buffers for audio.
It’s NOT a regular echo device by any means, so to get an idea of what it can do you can watch my YouTube demo here:
https://youtu.be/5D9LaNUtpZ0
Download:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/etcau28cvjjsg ... 2.zip?dl=0
Originally I’d planned to have preset grain lengths and clear the buffers for every change of time selection.
However I found it more fun to have a fully variable control. The downside is that this can cause discontinuities in some circumstances. If there is audio running in the buffers, the change in length can cause crackling, for example when playing with high feedback levels or increasing the grain length to cover previous sound, or transitions from sound to silence. So it’s not zipper noise!
If you select a grain length and then leave it untouched, or change grain lengths with no sound in the buffers, there’ll be no crackling.
I think of it as a kind of creative toy rather than a “proper” effect, but I hope you have a bit of fun messing around with it.
As always, all comments welcome!
Cheers
Spogg