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smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:31 am
by the19thbear
Hi! i'm looking for an old delay without zippers in the feedback and speed path
netron wrote:
http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... 30&t=25549
"There was supposedly at some point a smooth modulateable delay from one of the early DP devs, i cant remember who, maybe it was orbitone."
You old pulsar people, do you remember anything??
thanks!!!
Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:00 pm
by Warp69
the19thbear wrote:Hi! i'm looking for an old delay without zippers in the feedback and speed path
netron wrote:
http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... 30&t=25549
"There was supposedly at some point a smooth modulateable delay from one of the early DP devs, i cant remember who, maybe it was orbitone."
You old pulsar people, do you remember anything??
thanks!!!
Obsidian AnaFX?
Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:48 am
by the19thbear
hmmmm.. i searched the net. i cant find it anywhere...
maybe his homemade atoms made it possible to do things without the zipper effect:
http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/20 ... olBox.html
where/how can i contact this guy?
thanks!
Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:14 am
by irrelevance
Sorry I don't have an answer but wasn't Obsidian the developer who moved into the Gforce vst suff?
Also Wolf did mention that he looked into such a device but the dsp load was to great.
Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:26 am
by the19thbear
i read that he might have gone into the fxpansion plugins.. who know.

Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:58 am
by Warp69
The developer was very active here :
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/pu ... roup&slk=3 - we all were.
The days before PlanetZ............. 1999
Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:24 am
by darkrezin
He dropped out of Scope development a long time ago.. I stopped using his stuff because the DSP files caused big problems being in the Scope DSP folder. He did 1 or 2 VST plugins but that was ages ago and someone else seems to be using the website address (blackstonesoftware.com) now. No idea what he's up to now.
BTW Planet Z went all funky. Pretty cool 
Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:25 am
by MD69
µYep! bunch of good guys there. That's where I learned about my STS4000!
Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:05 am
by darkrezin
Just a note on how the delay worked (AnaDelay) - as far as I know it changed the sample rate. A cool effect but ultimately quite digital sounding and not the creamy smoothness of an analog delay.
My advice - get an analog delay pedal or rackmount, they are really cheap, sound like nothing in the digital world and are lots of fun

BBD delays react much faster (very fast!) to delay time changes than a tape delay if this is the thing you're looking for. Tape delays are great in their own way for creamy psychedelic madness.
Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:08 am
by the19thbear
I have both

a space echo re301 and dynacord vrs analog delay. amazing things!
and now... i want a scope version as well!! yes i'm greedy!
the thing is, i really like the sound of the sc stuff, but i change parameters alot in my music, and i hate zipping..
this goes for reverbs as well!
Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:01 am
by Shroomz~>
19thbear, you're obsessed with this zipper noise thing !! ... & Rightly so..

Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:38 am
by the19thbear
yes i indeed am
its the only thing that really bugs me about scope..

Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:15 am
by dawman
I share your opinions also, but I had a delay like you speak of when we leased a key-tech's Scope DP DAW. He was w/ the management company and quite knowledgable w/ DSP atoms, etc. I think he was banned from here actually, as we ended up banning him also. He was such a jerk and condescending to everyone around. But he recorded us live w/ VDAT, and was an incredibly talented chap, but just unbareable to be around, and a liar/rat/bitch.
His emulated Prime Time was an ugly looking but awesome delay, and it ate the DSP's at an alarming rate. So this is not a Scope fault, but rather a DSP choice I believe. He had some really excellent stuff I have never seen here, and claimed to work for the stars in his last life.
I know this can and will be done, someone with a developers tools and time to develope it is what it takes. I assume this can be done in all time based effects, and I would like a reverb like this. I bet it won't be cheap, but then again I am not cheap when it comes to quality. That particular delay took 30-40 percent of a 45 DSP meter !! But it had 4 delay lines and was smooth and real 12bit tails like a Model 93 PrimeTime Lexicon.
Darkrezin...Your avatar is the Herbie Hancock Thrust LP cover as he flies over the ancient city of Machupichu in Peru !! My all time favorite album. No one here probably ever heard the synths and Rhodes on that fine recording, but many great sounds and tricks from that LP like wah-wah clavinet on Actual Proof, bi-directional portamento synth lines on an ARP 2600S, etc. A great many tricks can be learned just by buying that CD. Excellent avatar....excellent.
I want the synth inside of his ship !!
Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:08 am
by darkrezin
Yep, great album. I don't have any favourites though - Thrust, Man-Child, Secrets, Crossings, Mwandishi and Sextant are all essential!
Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:13 pm
by astroman
XITE-1/4LIVE wrote:...Darkrezin...Your avatar is the Herbie Hancock Thrust LP cover as he flies over the ancient city of Machupichu in Peru !! ...
you see that mountain ridge in the background covered by a small cloud ?
the
beginning of the trailer of the Herzog movie
Aguirre - The Wrath of God shows a small part of it in real life. The scene was shot at exactly that location and is one of the most impressive zooms I ever happened to view in a movie. That huge mountain coming closer and closer and finally revealing those people - tiny like ants.
Unfortunately the zoom itself didn't make it to the trailer.
Here's a still part
on topic - though I don't have the slightest idea if this is a workable solution in any way...
the request is about accelerating a tape delay, which essentially means just an increase of the sample rate - with all artifacts like pitch-shifting etc included.
This should be much easier to implement, than an emulation of the afforementioned Lexicon...
cheers, Tom
Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:00 pm
by dawman
That's good news,
The Lexi emu was sweet but hardly worth the DSP used, that's why I didn't use it live. It was that or a Bowen synth that had to go. I am sure you know what choice I made.
Kinda funny it really pissed this guy off that I said I didn't want to use it, so when I caved in and said O.K., I made a project keeping Prowave and getting rid of Solaris, then showed him the Oberheims on the truck w/ their Anvils and said, oh...almost forgot, you gotta set those up to replace the Solaris, the M12 / XPander combo. Naturally he whined and pissed and moaned while he did it. Then I said to keep doing that nightly, as we were doing 4 out of 7 nights as the opening act. As I suspected he agreed that having Solaris was the best option available.......what a sniveling bone rack.
He is the only Oriental man I ever met that I despised, and it gave me great pleasure to give him 2 checks 3 months early.
I bet you being a Bavarian kinda' guy would love to climb Machupichu 'eh?
My Peruvian friend brought me back many trinkets and postcards of it as I have also enjoyed it's splendor. The air is so thin at that altitude it must be a rough hike.
Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:33 pm
by astroman
stardust wrote:a bit hazy, but it might be the same
it really
is the same, as the original shot opens wide enough to recognize the famous scenery of the picture Jimmy posted.
One totally underestimates the dimensions of that peak in the background from the well-known postcard view...
Anyway - a great movie
cheers, Tom
Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:22 pm
by the19thbear
astroman:
on topic - though I don't have the slightest idea if this is a workable solution in any way...
the request is about accelerating a tape delay, which essentially means just an increase of the sample rate - with all artifacts like pitch-shifting etc included.
This should be much easier to implement, than an emulation of the afforementioned Lexicon...
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that sound like a good idea... i know it wont sound liek an analog delay, but it would still be interesting!
is there any modular module that allows you to smoothly increase the samplerate??'
i dont have SDK, and if i did have it, i probably woulnd know how to use it
so... anybody out there, feel free to make this
and.... the next step for SC should be to make it possible to do everything without zippers!
Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:41 am
by Immanuel
And do you plan to have your Scope system do anything else, while the sample rate throttles up and down?

Re: smooth modulateable delay
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:03 am
by the19thbear