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[Spogg]

Analogue clock collection

4 really nice analogue clocks. My favourite is the flip clock. It reminds me of my favourite film: Groundhog Day

Spogged: Nothing, just collected them into one zip.

Author pall

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/t917hky5s7y53 ... s.zip?dl=0

[Spogg]

Colour picker with alpha

Useful replacement for the stock colour picker. This small tool has a Windows colour picker and an alpha (transparency) picker.

Spogged: I chose orange. Obviously.

Author: Unknown.

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[Spogg]

Dark Moon synthesiser

This synth makes use of x-y pad morphing (cross fading) between 4 oscillators. The author has provided 10 presets. This 4-way morphing process can creat a huge range of tones for further processing.

Spogged: Replaced the preset manager which was incomplete for some reason. The author's presets remain intact.

Author: acg2010

EDIT 29.2.16: The author has posted the most recent version later in this topic.

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[Spogg]

Stereo field effect

This produces a really wild result, even on speakers, using the Haas effect.
I had thought about experimenting with this effect, whereby small left/right delays generate the illusion of location, but it's already here in the great little module. You must give it a listen!

The author has provided a demo environment using coloured noise as a source, so it's ready to audition.

Spogged: Nothing

Author: Unknown

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Spogg

[tulamide]

Stereo field effect

This produces a really wild result, even on speakers, using the Haas effect.
I had thought about experimenting with this effect, whereby small left/right delays generate the illusion of location, but it's already here in the great little module. You must give it a listen!

The author has provided a demo environment using coloured noise as a source, so it's ready to audition.

Spogged: Nothing

Author: Unknown

Cheers

Spogg

I use the Haas effect a lot in my music to create fat, wide sounds. It's common practice that I work on a synth to shape a sound, then doubling that synth and running it through a delay with more than 3 and less than 20 ms (I know the Haas effects tells other values, but mine are the ones that yielded the best results). It's simple, but it also tends to prefer a channel when listening with headphones - so use it carefully.

Here's another interesting use of the Haas effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySCaIMj6WSA

[Spogg]

Good link tulamide!

Whenever I hear about using short delays there's always a warning about collapsing to mono but does anyone actually do this? What would be the purpose in going from stereo to mono I wonder...

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Spogg

[tulamide]

Good link tulamide!

Whenever I hear about using short delays there's always a warning about collapsing to mono but does anyone actually do this? What would be the purpose in going from stereo to mono I wonder...

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Spogg

It's not so much about you going to mono, but about the assumption that there could still be people out there listening in mono (like an old radio, for example). I don't know how much consideration this really needs nowadays. But if you assume that your music could be listend to in mono, you need to adjust quite a few things (which I, for example, didn't on any of my songs)

[Spogg]

It's not so much about you going to mono, but about the assumption that there could still be people out there listening in mono (like an old radio, for example). I don't know how much consideration this really needs nowadays. But if you assume that your music could be listend to in mono, you need to adjust quite a few things (which I, for example, didn't on any of my songs)

Very good point tulamide. I'd forgotten about Radio (or "The Wireless" as we used to call it here). There are still many Radios available with a single speaker, even many digital ones.

So to succeed in the "pop" business you do need to listen in mono. Lesson learned.

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Spogg

[RJHollins]

'MONO compatibility' has been a heavily debated issue, for sure.

It has really become 'debatable' with today's generation it seems.

Coming up through the daze of vinyl ... I don't see the argument. The 'Laws of Physics' have not changed,
and knowing with 100% certainty that 'stereo' shall be the Rule is too much of a generalization. As an engineer I think it'd be foolish to count on that.

I remember hearing the broadcast of the Eagles, 'When Hell Freezes Over' tour on TV ... one of the guitar solos could barely be heard [just the effects return was], as the phase cancellation nulled. I don't believe this was the intent

Whenever a sound source is recorded from 2 receivers [mics] or mono ... phase relationships come to play. To ignore this, or assume otherwise ... hmmm ...

[Spogg]

FFT 256 partial oscillator and wave maker

As some of you may know I'm "partial" to a bit of additive synthesis and this is a lovely beast to play with.
The scheme is very flexible and well thought out and I love the graphic implementation too. So much better than the stock one. The module is playable polyphonically so you can audition as you edit. You can save the created wave for use in other wavetable projects.

Spogged: Added a comment box explaining the basics. It took me a little while to work it out so I hope this will speed up your attainment of additive synthesis pleasure.
Set the preset manager to lock to preserve the nice default starting points.
Corrected the English on a couple of labels (typos).

Author: Unknown.

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Spogg