To end on here's another delay! … Over the hills and … I won't go into kids TV references with this one, I promise. WMD and SSF have added two new modules to their collaboration range lately including the MMF (multimode filter) and the DPLR (short for Doppler) which is a delay. It uses the same PT delay chips found in the Synthrotek EKO and DLY (click each link for videos on each from me) but absolutely rinses it for everything it's worth, going way beyond other PT based delays. It features several delay filter settings, stereo output and several modes of stereo operation and a spread control to alter how the delays are offset differently across the A and B outputs. Needless to say I WANT ONE! Click HERE to check out a video from WMD on the module and click HERE for the website.
When thinking about speaking to Olivier from Mutable Instruments many
questions spring to mind. I thought I'd keep things focussed by keeping the
interview questions about one module. That module is Braids. Which is one of my most used modules.
Q) How did Braids come about? What was the idea with putting so many synthesis types in one module?
A) Around the end of 2011 I started collecting little bits of waveform synthesis code for what was going to be a factory-made version of the Ambika polysynth. My goal was to cover as many different audio generation processes as possible that could provide raw material for synthesis, and simultaneously to simplify the control scheme for these, by coming up with two well calibrated parameters covering a wide range of sounds within a given technique. I started with the
Shruthi oscillator code and tried to push things further in terms of quality or