During the recent Bergamo jazz Festival I listened an artist using a delay that moves the repeated note along a predefined arpeggio scale.
Which effect could be used to get it?
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The organelle has a patch that does something similar. i can’t remember the name.
Do you search that effect on zynthian or in general? If the latter, Eventide Quadravox/Octavox would do it. It could therefore also be found in the harmonizer category.
Actually Qmidiarp can do something like that, although only with fixed half tone shifts between the successive notes…the sequence would not follow a particular scale, but only increment by the number of halftones you set in the pattern. And it may also give you some headache setting up the pattern preset, because that is not accessible in the lv2 version. You would have to edit the ttl file manually to create such a pattern.
There is some documentation here QMidiArp - Arp Module Documentation
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Have you tried PitchedDelay? It’s deactivated by default. I didn’t test it, just spotted on the disthro ports page and saw it’s in zynthian too.
Are you looking for a MIDI effect or an audio effect. Maybe you could give a concrete example of what the input and output would be like. I can’t understand what the desired outcome is, nor what the input would be.
audio effect
sorry but I do not have a concrete example
what I expect is to play a synth and have as delay the last note with pitch moving along a scale of 4th for example
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“the last note”: will be difficult.
“along a scale of 4th”: The question then is if you want a delay with the pitch shifter in the feedback loop (feedback pitched in fixed intervals) or with indipendently pitchable taps.
Probably the PitchedDelay can do both.
Yeah! PitchedDelay looks like the one to look at. The ttl file is poor so it is not well presented in the main UI and it is disabled by default. There are some presets that may give inspiration. You are currently best usig VNC to configure because you can see what the controls actually do. (We should fix the TTL.) You could configure it to play a single delayed note for each tab, with a different delay and pitch to give a controlled, scalled output. This is quite a nice plugin but even set to “Detune (best)” it still has aliasing so the delayed, detuned audio sounds robotic but the effect of this may be reduced by only using one delay per tab so that there isn’t a componded effect.
Here is some audio with the plugin configured to give 3 echos, 1 per tap. The time spacing is 5/16, 10/16, 14/16 and the pitch shift is 3, 5, 7 semitones. You can hear the pitchshift artifacts (this is at best quality) which might be improved with an upstream feature request.
The snapshot:
021-PitchedDelay.zss (61.6 KB)
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I’ll try it, thanks!
I would actually love to do it, but there are some practical problems: E.g. it would be meaningful to introduce stepped controls for the host tempo quantized subdivisions, but depending on which measures you chose (1/4, 1/16T etc., parameter “Tab n-Sync”) the steps of the delay time and predelay time would be set another way (8, 48 in these examples) and this you can’t do. So we would have to leave these as normalized float paramters.
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You are correct but there are some values that could be configured, controls grouped & ordered and display names rationalised. I am not sure how we might handle the dynamic change of parameter range for predelay, delay and pitchshift but all the others could be configured. Note that the TTL says “Tab” where I think it should be “Tap” and if you leave spaces between words, the new control label algorithm will better handle the display of names. (It can also handle camleCase but explicitly defining words is better.)
[Edit] Whilst there you could add the presets.