[LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Wed Apr 28 11:05:54 UTC 2010


Louigi Verona wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Ralf Mardorf 
> <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net <mailto:ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>> wrote:
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>     Ralf Mardorf wrote:
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>         Louigi Verona wrote:
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>             Difficult to explain. let me draw:
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>             C5 is a note
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>             C5 _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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>             A 3/16 would create this kind of echo:
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>             C5 _ _ c5 _ _ c5 _
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>             On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf
>             <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
>             <mailto:ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>
>             <mailto:ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
>             <mailto:ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>>> wrote:
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>                    None of the LADSPA ones I tried just give you a
>             normal 3/16 delay.
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>                What exactly do you mean with this? Are you talking about
>                triplets? Just use the calculator to find out how long
>             a triplet
>                is regarding to the BPM and round the result to the
>             available ms.
>                Or is 3 for left to center to right, for semiquavers?
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>         Please add your reply under the quote.
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>         You're talking about triplets, especially because you do dub
>         music ;).
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>         This is possible.
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>         60000/120BPM=500ms for a 1/4 note. E.g. 500ms/3=166.7ms for
>         triplets, reps. 166.7ms/x or 166.7ms*x for other triplets.
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>     Resp. you aren't talking about triplets if e.g. one _ is for 1/8
>     note. Do you wish to have a delay were not all delays do come at a
>     steady note?
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> I am not sure guys what you are talking about.
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> I understand that you can multiply something - this is very clear. You 
> can even forget about plugins and just take the sound and paste it 
> with a lower volume.
> I cannot always point a finger to what exactly i do not like about 
> delays. CALF vintage delays is nice, but the fact that I can make it 
> pan ping-pong only by setting different time in L and R is not good. 
> And the whole Subdivide control is very confusing. In many simple VSTs 
> you have 1, 2/4, 3/16 kinda settings and it is all tied to a tempo. 
> Echoverse in Rakarrack is very good.

I've written this before, I completely agree that there's no Linux delay 
able to do simple "real" ping-pong delay, e.g. as my Yamaha SPX 90 II is 
able to do.



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