Gotharman's Little deFormer
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The "old" deFormer:
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It's a granular effects processor. It's a polyphonic filterbank synthesizer. It's a MIDI note randomizer. It's an analogue style 2-track MIDI sequencer. It's the first machine in the world (I think), that can do REALTIME TIMESTRETCH ON A LIVE INPUT AUDIO SIGNAL. Add to this a granulator that cut's the input audio signal up in fragments, and lets you move these fragments around with the 16 step pots to rearrange beats and others in realtime. Use the two fully programmable filterbanks to tweak the sound further. Or create complete synth-patches by combining the internal polyphonic oscillator section with one or both of the filterbanks. Create two note and controller sequences and run them thru the note randomizer to create enddless non-mechanical variations. Store your arrangement in one of the 512 program locations for instant recall. That's the Deformer!
It has 24-bit input's and output's and 40-bit/58 KHz internal processing.
THE GRANULAR EFFECTS PROCESSOR
The granular effects processor makes it possible to realtime timestretch a live input audio signal.
It can create strange variations of a beat by cutting the input up in fragments, and let the user rearrange these.
Hear the Granulator effect by clicking here.
The compressor adds smack to the beat. Usually it is trigged by the incoming audio signal, and by adjusting a threshold, but it can also be trigged by MIDI and sequencer note-on's. MIDI channel and note range are adjustable.
With four different types of distortion, this machine for sure can destroy the sound to your liking.
Hear 2 distorted internal synth sounds
Hear a beat getting distorted.
If you don't need to cut anything up, you can switch the granulator to stereo delay mode. The delay time are adjustable from very, very short up to around 3 seconds. In the following soundclip, the delay time is set to very short.
Hear a beat running thru a very short delay. The mix knob are tweaked.
THE POLYPHONIC FILTERBANK SYNTHESIZER
The synthesizer section of the deformer consist of a polyphonic oscillator section and 2 filterbanks with each 4 filters. It is possible to route the oscillator section thru one or both of the filterbanks, and it is possible to route the 2 audio inputs thru the filterbanks too. It is also possible to route filterbank 1 into filterbank 2, in case you should need 2 filterbanks in serial connection. The synthesizer section can, of course, be routed thru the effects section.
The oscillator section and the 2 filterbanks each has their own 2 LFO's and 1 envelope. The filterbanks also has a randomgenerator, that can be trigged from one of the LFO's or by MIDI or sequencer note-on's. The oscillators can modulate themselves and the filterbanks. MIDI controllers and velocity can also be selected as modulators.
The oscillators has triangle, sawtooth, square, pulse and noise waveforms. With one knob, you can continously and smoothly morph thru these waves. This morph function can be modulated by any of the sources. All waveforms can be pulsewidth and pitch modulated, even by themselves.
Each filterbank consist of 4 indepenently controllable and fully programable resonant filters. Each filter has selectable mode (BPF, LPF, HPF), adjustable cutoff frequency, output level and steep (resonance). They each have 2 sets of cutoff's and output level's. Morphing between these to sets are possible with any modulation source. There are also a common cutoff, which affects all 4 filters, and which can be modulated.
Listen to some sounds created with the internal synth section:
THE NOTE RANDOMIZER
The note randomizer can treat incoming MIDI note on and off's and notes generated by the internal sequencer. When it recieves note data, it takes a look at a user adjustable probability parameter, and randomly decides if it will play that note or not. If it decides to play the note, it will have a look at a user adjustable random velocity parameter, and if this is higher than zero, it will randomize the note velocity value with the adjusted amount. The randomized notes can then be outputted to the MIDI out and to the internal synth. This effect is very useful for creating variations in repeating patterns. The Deformer has 4 note random channels, each with adjustable MIDI channel and key range.
Listen to some examples:
A one-bar beat running thru the note randomizer
A one bar internal synth pattern note randomized
THE ANALOGUE-STYLE STEP SEQUENCER
The build-in sequencer are analogue-style, which means, that you are creating music by turning the 16 step-knobs, not by playing notes on a keyboard. Each knob represents one step in the sequence. Some very interesting results can come out of this.
It has 2 tracks which can be up to 32 steps in length. The length are independently adjustable for each track. Each track has a note sub-track, a velocity sub-track and a controller sub-track. Each step can be on or off or in hold mode (it holds the previously played note). The sequencer can be gated, reset, transposed and trigged by incoming midi-notes and it syncs to and puts out midi-clock.
Listen to some sequencer/internal synth patterns
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