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Subject: Re: Future module vote - VC Phase Shifter

From: "David Bivins" <david@...
Date: 1999-05-13

> Did you build these? SNARE? BASS? How were they?

<hangs head in shame>Er, not yet. I'm going to soon, though! I'll let you
know--first is the ADV-Bass.

> > that would be done in a big-ass software environment, as it's based on
> > reversing samples in realtime... Does anyone know of an audio
> manipulation
> > environment (as Max is for MIDI) on a PC, so I could see if this
> > would even sound interesting?
>
> Do you want to reverse the whole sample or little snippets? Do
> you want the
> MOTM to do this????

It's hard to explain--I visualize it a little better. It's basically about
reversing the actual samples (that make up a whole "sample") in a linear
fashion so that the sample overall folds over itself. The user could dictate
the curve by which it reverses, etc. This wouldn't really be a MOTM kind of
thing (although I guess it could be) but more of a VST Plugin kind of thing
or standalone digital module.

This may be a better explanation. Let's say the samples comprising a tone
are represented by the letters of the alphabet so that the tone is:
ABCDEFGHIJ
Now we put it through the wringer thus: ABCDEFEDCDEFGHIJ
Now we control the "curve" of the reversal:
AAAABBBBCCCCDDDDEEEEFFFFEEEDDCDDEEEFFFFGGGGHHHHIIIIJJJJ

Make any sense? It's the drugs, I tell ya...

David.