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I made a plugin with just this effect by having a series of 60! short delays, each tuned chromatically with a master feedback controller. It's rather cool sounding. It's based on the "drone box" plugin here : http://www.olilarkin.co.uk/index.php?p=dronebox Peace G > Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:52:45 +0100 > Subject: Re: Tip on a great free reverb plugin (for lappy loopers) PSP Pianoverb > From: perboysen@gmail.com > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Clifford Novey <cnovey@gmail.com> wrote: > > One of my fav albums of all times uses this- Weather Report's first > > record- self titled from 1972. Wayne played scales on his sax into > > piano strings. Joe was giving him the scales and they edited all the > > sax out but 1 note. Incredible and I didn't know how it was done until > > much later. Joe also is doing something with the pedals you can hear > > it. > > I like that album too :-) So Joe held down the sustained chords > according to the song structure to imply the chord changes in the > piano's sax reverb! Cool. Doing that with modern electronic laptop > tools would be an exciting challenge! I imagine I would like to assign > "reverb chords" to the switches of a MIDI pedalboard to play it. Any > ideas on how to set up a signal routing that would give you this > thing? > > I can think of a mixer system where reverb is fed into a bunch of > effect channels that are EQ'ed to let through the notes frequencies of > a particular chord (or clusters). Then you may mute and unmute such > effect tracks for "chord changes in the reverb". But this idea loses > out on the fact that the sustained piano string also starts to > oscillate and boosts the note it with its own (grand) sound. I guess > there are better tricks. Ideas anyone? A system of parallel granular > synthesis lines? (think we're talking "electronic tanpura" here, kind > of...) > > Greetings from Sweden > > Per Boysen > www.boysen.se > www.perboysen.com > www.looproom.com internet music hub > |