Blooming Sparkles

Blooming Sparkles patch information

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:

ControlParameterLeft LEDRight LED
Left knobRoom size
Right knobWet/ dry mix
Encoder button (single click)Toggle buffer length or sparkle volumeRed = buffer length, green = sparkle volume
Encoder button (double click)Cycle playback speed (1x, 2x, 4x)Red = 1x, orange = 2x, green = 4x
EncoderBuffer length or sparkle volumeRed = buffer length, green = sparkle volume
Left buttonCycle modulation typeRed = normal, orange = reverse, yellow = forward/ reverse, blue = all
Right buttonToggle freeze bufferBlue = frozen

Open the patch blooming_sparkles.pd in Plugdata to get an idea of how it works.

Plugdata compile settings

Big + SDRAM.