Before I actually sat to start writing this post I was sure it’s gonna be titled “General Purpose Flanger”. But then I realized that isn’t going to be very true title due to a couple of reasons. First, it’s getting boring, I have to describe at least a dozen macros before I’ll put out something really interesting for you. Second, my general purpose flanger has some little secret, which is pushing the macro slightly further than good’n'old classic flangers.

There was times when was young and uninterested in advanced kind of synthesis. Then I hardly knew what is exactly “physical modelling” means, I just heard it’s a “revolutionary technology of future synthesis”. Honestly, I’m still not very interested in an imitation of real musical instruments. Of course, it’s very important in view of science and stuff, but kill me, that’s not for me, I don’t wear glasses, I’m not smart enough.

Once I sat to build small and universal macroses for own purposes I realized that how damn easy to find something new in simple and well-known things. It’s all about an enthusiasm and an attention. People put too much of chaos to their work, that’s wrong. Of course, I ain’t a perfect one and obviously won’t do another revolution in the synthesis world, but excuse me, I don’t give a damn.

Once I sat to build small and universal flanger macro. I thought “hey, everybody use a flanger, do another one for yourself, slacker!”. Unfortunately, I don’t remember details, but I remember I was working with delays a lot those times, i knew everything about timing and all that basic mathematics. I noticed that people use simple knob/fader to set delay timing in flangers. I thought “hey, it’s wastefully, I can convert the ms (milliseconds) to the damn pitch!”. I sat again and did my first flanger with note based delay. When I did it I didn’t know what’s the actual potential of the approach. Basically, I was just stopping design holes people used to make. It was something like a couple of years ago. Damn, I hope not a few couples.. Sometimes, I think my memory is too good, I’m loosing the time feeling

The design is highly optimized again. But I hope you get the idea of the flanger, it’s not a big deal to edit the controls. The reason I’ve mentioned physical modelling above is that the flanger produce similar sound/effect under certain circumstances. The damn simple flanger put something more than just fatness, something that reminds liveliness. That wasn’t really my goal, but it gives me reason to think it’s gotta to be developed further. I hope later we’ll get some non-existent ethnic instruments with the advanced version of the flanger.

Well, that’s basically all that I wanted to say. Below goes downloads with a very small tweaksession of one my synths where I have “off > on“ed the flanger with a couple of presets. Hope you’ll find it interesting. See ya!

Downloads:

Flanger with note based delay macro
002_TWKSES_Flanger_PPM.mp3 - small “off > on” the flanger demo tweaksession

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