0.3: Replaced latch button with Presets menu. No need to update if the latch functionality is preferred. Otherwise, things are tidied up, so the patch should be easier to modify now if so desired. Thanks for the kind words all.
A strange string machine if you will, and also a resonator for processing external audio. Basically a karplus-style tuned delay string emulator optimized for lo-fi mellotron vibes rather than short plucky sounds.
Update: The FX page now has a control for dry mix of external input instead of reverb diffusion, and the length of the feedback in the delays can be slightly shortened using knob 3 on page 1.
Architecture: Either pink noise or audio from the organelle’s input is continuously fed into eight voices, each of which consist of a bandpass filter prior to a delay. Playing a note opens an ADSR envelope, the output of which is then fed into a bp filter / flanger / plate reverb.
Controls: This patch uses the C&G style layout where different pages are accessed by holding down the aux button and pressing the appropriate black key.
Main Page:
Knob 1: Depth of delay time (pitch) modulation
Knob 2: Rate of delay time modulation
Knob 3: Positive feedback = String (even+odd harmonics), negative = Wind (odd harmonics only)
Knob 4: Input source
ADSR: The usual.
Filters:
Knob 1: Pre Filter: this decreases the bandwidth of the tuned bp filter prior to the delay, reducing the noisiness of the signal. Put this at 0% if using as a resonator in order to hear the characteristics of the input.
Knob 2: Freq control for post delay filter
Knob 3: Res control for post delay filter
Knob 4: Mix control for post filter (0% = bypass)
FX:
Knob 1: Plate verb decay length
Knob 2: External Input dry level
Knob 3: Stereo flanger mix
Knob 4: Plate Verb mix
Tunings:
Knob 1: Tuning selection
Knob 2: NA
Knob 3: Fund. freq. for alternate tunings
Knob 4: transpose for organelle keyboard
Note that I ran out of room for a preset saving system; however, the preset system can still be manually accessed within the oknobspages subpatch, and different default settings can be saved and loaded this way.
An example of the sounds the patch can produce as a resonator when processing inconsistent source material (in this case vinyl record pops and rain on a window) can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/jason-borga-771355918/gone-untowards?si=803b8e79840142c9812f5c856234e74c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
The example sounds fantastic! I’m gonna give this a try later. Thanks and hats off!
Amazing sound, mate. Thanks for quality submissions, you come up with great stuff.
This is lovely!
Real nice thanks! cld u explain a little re the saving/oknobspages subpatch?
Thanks everybody! Re: the saving thing: Open the oknobspages subpatch, then open the presets subpatch. There is a message box in there with a zero in it, if you click on this it will save whatever current knob positions you have as the default settings upon loading the patch. Alternately you could send other numbers and save different knob settings to different presets, but there will be no way to load them from the organelle alone, you’d have to do it through the patch directly (unless the control layout gets changed)
For some reason my input source (a field recorder going direct into the 1/4 input of the organelle) isn’t really noticeable and I just hear the strings. I had the prefilter set to 0.
I LOVE the sound of the example you uploaded and find it super inspiring if I could get it to work
Hey Brandon, I think there are two possible issues: the main one is I used a mixer send for my input, and mixed in a little dry signal in addition to the resonated one. I find it sounds really nice with just a touch of the original dry sound. Also, I think I recorded that when I had slightly more complicated controls, and I might have been using a shorter feedback time for the delay algorithm. I just re-uploaded the patch with a dry level control and the ability to slightly alter the feedback (it doesn’t resonate at all if you go any shorter). I also find that I have to experiment somewhat with the pitch of the notes played in order to pick up different sources. I hope this works better for you!
That worked! Thanks a lot, this is an incredibly creative patch
Made an account to say thanks so much for this (and for the 6-voice synth!) – sounds amazing, immediately became central to my current set-up. First time tinkering in pd off the organelle too, for saving new default settings. Great patches!
(If anyone else is after doing this, it’s oknobsbaptiste -> presets -> “0” message box branching off the ‘save’ box mid-left (you’ll see the parameters change in the bottom two windows when you click it).)