Ambient reverb with lots of tweaking possibilities, an almost infinite decay, echoes, distortion, auto swell, pitch shifting and granular. At the beginning I was inspired by the Mako R1 from Walrus, but I admit I went very far from the original goal…
The principle is to start from a convolution reverb and to tweak it at first with the BASIC REVERB module which lets you set the infinite decay, wider room effect, more tone control, pre-delay, etc. ; just this makes a very lovely reverb imo ; but then I added other modules giving you other ambient effects.
You can choose in the MONOREVERB module which kind of reverb you want to be the starting point of your reverberation : spring, plate, real place…
The AUTOSWELL module is here to soften the attack of the reverb.
Don’t hesitate to replace effects by others to your liking (a vibrato or a phaser instead of the granular can be nice for example). Keep in mind that most of the modules are very CPU hungry, so you have to play with parallel connections because it uses the four cores of the machine in a better way (if I understand…). This combination works well and it says 68% DSP, but sometimes I just disconnect one module to connect it to another one and the DSP suddenly becomes 117%…
The switches :
A : cuts all the effects except the auto swell and the convolution reverb, to have for example only a simple spring reverb. Set the volume of both only convolution reverb all / all the effects in the FOOTSWITCH A “on” and “off” parameters. Be careful as it often gets inverted when you load the preset.
B : adds or cuts the distortion. Set the amount and volume of distortion in the two SATURATOR modules. Set the mix between distorted and dry reverb in the FOOTSWITCH B “on” parameter. There is enough DSP to add a third saturator and get a crazier distorted sound. You can also replace it with a bitcrusher, bitmangle, wavefolder, power amp super… To your liking…
C : bypasses the effect.
D : adds or cuts the granular effect. It is set to be some kind of slightly untuned one octave up shimmering. You can set the GRANULAR module lots of different ways, for example with pitch around zero and density down you get a strange buggy random echo, maybe like on the granular mode of the Mako R1.
E : adds or cuts the time stretch effect. It is set to be and infinite feedback echo sounding like a factory resonating. You can set it to be a normal echo, or a shimmering pitch shift, or whatever you can imagine…
