Serial Bowl – Three Stompswitch FX in Series

This patch is a simple proof of concept, useful for teaching and learning, but also just a great collection of sounds. The CPU is running close to or over 100%, but I haven’t heard any horrible sounds from CPU overload just yet, so it’s probably okay. (If you experience otherwise please let me know, and I can trim the fat, either by going to mono or switching to Reverb Lite, etc.)

Stereo in, stereo out.

Controls:

Left stomp switch turns on/off a stereo phaser, with an LFO controlling the rate of the phaser. (You can access this on the first page, in green)

Middle stomp switch turns on/off a ping-pong delay, with an LFO controlling the tap tempo rate of the delay. (You can access this on the first page, in aqua.)

Right stomp switch turns on/off a “tremoverb,” ie. a stereo plate reverb running into a stereo “Fender-ish” tremolo. These are set up to be one mega-effect, with both on at the same time, but you can easily dial back the tremolo depth to be less pronounced—use your ears. An LFO controls the tap tempo rate of the tremolo. (You can access this on the first page, in red.)

This patch was designed to be a simple, easy to decipher example of routing effects in series, using out switches to control the path of the audio, and an audio mixer to take either option (“effect on” or “effect off”) and send it off to the next page/next effect. Everything is color coded, and laid out so it’s easy to read.

Some easy tweaks you could make:
1) Change the settings on each effect! Right now this is set up to function like three different pedals, in series, so just like on a pedalboard it makes sense to dial in the rates to complementary stages. I’ve already changed the LFO settings since uploading.
2) Have all three at the same rate: i.e. remove two of the LFOs, and have just one control all three effects. This may or may not be effective, or what you want… so
3) Do #2, but with a multiplier! Perhaps you’d like the delay to be twice as fast as the phaser… then you can get rid of one LFO but use a multiplier before sending the rate off to the second effect.
4) Expression control over any of the LFO rates makes sense too.
5) Different effects! I dialed in phaser, delay, and trem/verb because these are sounds I’ll use on my board. (Honestly, sometimes I just want phaser, but thought it was a waste of a patch to only have one stomp switch in use…).
6) Effects in parallel instead: actually easier to route, but harder to do with other pedals. Worth trying this out. You could build another patch, or mod this one.

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