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Patch information
- 1: Blooming Reverb
- 2: Blooming Sparkles
- 3: Breaks
- 4: Chorus
- 5: Compressor
- 6: Glurgle
- 7: Overdrive
- 8: Reverb
- 9: Tap tempo delay
- 10: Tremolo
- 11: Trig
- 12: Warp and weft
1 - Blooming Reverb
Blooming Reverb chains a reverb with a sonic bloom. The bloom is created with a filter bank running into allpass filters.
Here’s a quick demo:
| Control | Parameter | Left LED | Right LED |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left knob | Room size | ||
| Right knob | Wet/ dry mix | ||
| Encoder button (single click) | Toggle damping or bloom volume | Red = damping, green = bloom volume | |
| Encoder button (double click) | |||
| Encoder | Damping amount or bloom volume | Red = damping amount, green = bloom volume | |
| Left button | |||
| Right button |
Open the patch blooming_reverb.pd in Plugdata to get an idea of how it works.
You can also flash the binary file directly to the pedal using the web interface (see the guide to flashing using the web.
Plugdata compile settings
Big + SDRAM.
2 - Blooming Sparkles
Blooming Sparkles chains a reverb with a sonic bloom and a buffer whose playback can be modulated in different ways. The bloom is created with a filter bank running into allpass filters. The output of the filter bank is recorded into a buffer which is played back at various speeds and directions.
Here’s a quick demo:
| Control | Parameter | Left LED | Right LED |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left knob | Room size | ||
| Right knob | Wet/ dry mix | ||
| Encoder button (single click) | Toggle buffer length or sparkle volume | Red = buffer length, green = sparkle volume | |
| Encoder button (double click) | Cycle playback speed (1x, 2x, 4x) | Red = 1x, orange = 2x, green = 4x | |
| Encoder | Buffer length or sparkle volume | Red = buffer length, green = sparkle volume | |
| Left button | Cycle modulation type | Red = normal, orange = reverse, yellow = forward/ reverse, blue = all | |
| Right button | Toggle freeze buffer | Blue = frozen |
Open the patch blooming_sparkles.pd in Plugdata to get an idea of how it works.
You can also flash the binary file directly to the pedal using the web interface (see the guide to flashing using the web.
Plugdata compile settings
Big + SDRAM.
3 - Breaks
A continuously cycling buffer is cut up at various beat lengths, related to the tap tempo, then played back randomly.
Here’s a quick demo:
| Control | Parameter | Left LED | Right LED |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left knob | Delay feedback | ||
| Right knob | Mix (wet/ dry) | ||
| Encoder button (single click) | Toggle break/ cut density or buffer length | Red = phasor speed, green = buffer length | |
| Encoder button (double click) | Toggles forward and reverse buffer playback | ||
| Encoder | Break density or buffer length amount | Red = break density, green = buffer length | |
| Left button | Tap tempo | Delay speed | |
| Right button | Freezes buffer |
Open the patch breaks.pd in Plugdata to get an idea of how it works.
You can also flash the binary file directly to the pedal using the web interface (see the guide to flashing using the web.
Plugdata compile settings
Big + SDRAM.
4 - Chorus
| Control | Parameter | Left LED | Right LED |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left knob | Wet/ dry | ||
| Right knob | Rate | ||
| Encoder button | Toggle depth or base delay | Red = depth; green = base delay | |
| Encoder | Depth or base delay | Red = depth; green = base delay | |
| Left button | Cycle: Roland, classic, vibrato | Tempo | |
| Right button |
Open the patch chorus_vib.pd in Plugdata to get an idea of how it works.
You can also flash the binary file directly to the pedal using the web interface (see the guide to flashing using the web.
Plugdata compile settings
Big + SDRAM.
5 - Compressor
| Control | Parameter | Left LED | Right LED |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left knob | Threshold | Gain reduction | |
| Right knob | Make-up gain | ||
| Encoder button | Ratio (2:1, 4:1, 8:1, 16:1) | R O G B | |
| Encoder | |||
| Left button | Attack time (ms): 10, 40, 80, 120 | R O G B | |
| Right button | Release time (ms) 10, 80, 160, 320 | R O G B |
The colour of the left LED indicates which value has been selected. So if you click on the encoder a ratio of 2:1 is red, 4:1 orange, 8:1 green and 16:1 blue.
For attack times, red is 10ms, orange is 40ms, green is 80ms and blue is 120ms. Same principle applies for release (see table above).
The encoder doesn’t do anything at the moment.
Open the patch compressor_mono.pd in Plugdata to get an idea of how it works. I have essentially pulled apart the hv.comp~ and adapted it to allow more parameters to be set.
6 - Glurgle
Glurgle
A resonant filter bank with a cutoff modulated by either a sampled and held noise source running at different speeds (as heard on Ship Ahoy by Frank Zappa), or an envelope follower.
Here’s a quick demo:
| Control | Parameter | Left LED | Right LED |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left knob | Cutoff/ centre frequency | ||
| Right knob | Speed (in sample and hold mode) | ||
| Encoder button (single click) | |||
| Encoder button (double click) | |||
| Encoder | Input sensitivity (in env follower mode) | green = sensitivity | |
| Left button | Low pass/ Bandpass | green = low pass; red = bandpass | |
| Right button | Toggles modes (env follower/ sample and hold) | red = env follower; blue = sample and hold |
Open the patch glurgle.pd in Plugdata to get an idea of how it works.
You can also flash the binary file directly to the pedal using the web interface (see the guide to flashing using the web.
Glurgle with tap tempo
This is a modification, without the envelope follower mode, that uses just the noise sample and hold mode. The right button taps a tempo, and the right knob then subdivides that tempo from 1 to 8 subdivisions.
| Control | Parameter | Left LED | Right LED |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left knob | Cutoff/ centre frequency | ||
| Right knob | Tempo subdivision of modulator | ||
| Encoder button (single click) | |||
| Encoder button (double click) | |||
| Encoder | |||
| Left button | Low pass/ Bandpass | green = low pass; red = bandpass | |
| Right button | Tap tempo | green = tempo |
Patch: glurgle_taptempo.pd
Binary: glurgle_taptempo.bin
Plugdata compile settings
Big + SDRAM.
7 - Overdrive
| Control | Parameter | Left LED | Right LED |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left knob | Overdrive | ||
| Right knob | Gain | ||
| Encoder button | |||
| Encoder | Filter cutoff | Filter freq | |
| Left button | |||
| Right button |
Open the patch overdrive.pd in Plugdata to get an idea of how it works.
8 - Reverb
| Control | Parameter | Left LED | Right LED |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left knob | Size | ||
| Right knob | Wet/ dry | ||
| Encoder button | |||
| Encoder | |||
| Left button | Crossover freq (Hz): 3k, 10k, 18k | R G B | |
| Right button | Predelay (ms): 0, 15, 80 | R G B |
Open the patch reverb.pd in Plugdata to get an idea of how it works.
Plugdata compile settings
Big + SDRAM.
9 - Tap tempo delay
| Control | Parameter | Left LED | Right LED |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left knob | Feedback | ||
| Right knob | Wet/ dry | ||
| Encoder button | |||
| Encoder | |||
| Left button | Delay subdivision | Tempo | |
| Right button | Tap tempo | Subdivision |
Open the patch delay.pd in Plugdata to get an idea of how it works.
Plugdata compile settings
Big + SDRAM.
10 - Tremolo
| Control | Parameter | Left LED | Right LED |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left knob | Rate | ||
| Right knob | Depth | ||
| Encoder button | |||
| Encoder | Phase offset | ||
| Left button | |||
| Right button |
Open the patch tremolo.pd in Plugdata to get an idea of how it works.
Plugdata compile settings
Big + SDRAM.
11 - Trig
Percussive hits on a guitar (or other instrument) trigger percussive sounds, synthesised using a Karplus Strong/ delay based approach with a noise burst, filter, delay, filter and feedback loop.
Here’s a quick demo:
| Control | Parameter | Left LED | Right LED |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left knob | Input threshold for trigger | ||
| Right knob | Delay length (affects pitch) | ||
| Encoder button (single click) | Toggle delay or noise filter adjustment | Red = delay filter, green = noise filter | |
| Encoder button (double click) | |||
| Encoder | Delay or noise filter amount | Red = delay filter, green = noise filter | |
| Left button | |||
| Right button |
Open the patch trig.pd in Plugdata to get an idea of how it works.
You can also flash the binary file directly to the pedal using the web interface (see the guide to flashing using the web.
Plugdata compile settings
Big + SDRAM.
12 - Warp and weft
A tap tempo delay is fed into a buffer of 1 to 4 beats in length, which is then played back at different speeds and either forward or reverse.
Here’s a quick demo:
| Control | Parameter | Left LED | Right LED |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left knob | Delay feedback | ||
| Right knob | Mix (wet/ dry) | ||
| Encoder button (single click) | Toggle phasor speed or buffer length | Red = phasor speed, green = buffer length | |
| Encoder button (double click) | Toggles forward and reverse buffer playback | ||
| Encoder | Phasor speed or buffer length amount | Red = phasor speed, green = buffer length | |
| Left button | Tap tempo | Delay speed | |
| Right button | Freezes buffer |
Open the patch warp_weft.pd in Plugdata to get an idea of how it works.
You can also flash the binary file directly to the pedal using the web interface (see the guide to flashing using the web.
Plugdata compile settings
Big + SDRAM.