CombOver

An FSU effect based on 5 Comb Filters
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  • Freeware
  • Publisher Name:
  • Evil Alliance
  • Operating Systems:
  • Windows All
  • File Size:
  • 1.5 MB

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CombOver Description

CombOver VST was developed to be an FSU effect based on 5 Comb Filters. Unlike a normal comb filter effect combOver is trying too hard to cover up the naked pate of boring audio. Otherworldly, wet, electric, exploding or glitchy and twitching sounds are possible with CombOver. But What does it do? There are 5 comb filters for which you can set the global feedback and damping. They have their delay times independantly modulated by a combination of pitch detection and a step sequencer using values from a prime pool. The xy pad and other controls allow you decide the mix level of the 5 combs All combs' delay times are controlled by a stereo pitch detector with a peak hold control to ensure that the output is at a sensible pitch. This pitch detector's stereo peak hold is controlled by the Hold and Decay controls. Move them up and the modulation remains more stable, move them down and the modulation greatly increases it's reaction speed and makes all the combs fluctuate wildly. The Octave selection button tells the pitch detector what octave it should assume incoming audio is, which more than anything else gives the resulting comb filtering different flavors. The pitch detector has several modes - pitch track - midi - blend - track + midi - track - midi - midi - track - track * midi pitch track uses the incoming audio to set the pitch midi requires you to route midi note(s) into combover to set the pitch blend allows you to mix between the two all other modes are an arithmetic function (plus, minus, multiply) of the two any mode other than 'pitch track' requires you to input midi signals into combover. There are some presets therefore that you will need to either route midi in or change the pitch detection mode The pitch detector doesn't modulate each comb in the same way! 4 of the combs are modulated by a harmonic overtone of the root pitch. Just move the xy pad around to mix between them. Dead center on the xy gives you a blended mix of all four times, and thus more chaos. The prime pool creates a set of harmonics of the root pitch, and the step sequencer controls which of these 16 harmonics is being sent as modulation to the comb filters. The Harmomix knob mixes between the 4 combs output from the xy pad and the remaining 'root harmonic comb, the one being modulated at base pitch. The wet/dry mixes between the dry unprocessed signal (full left) and the wet comb filtered signal (fully right) The Volume control controls the overall level gain of the plug-in's audio output. Step sequencer The beat selector controls the length of the step sequencer in sync with your host tempo, from 1/16th of a beat to 32 beats . The step sequencer, in addition to modulating the harmonic choice over time can also control the comb filters' feedback and damping parameters, by selecting 'stepped'. In other word each step, allows you to select vertically, which harmonic (and thus delay time) will be selected from the 16 possibilities in the pool. The Feedback knob controls all of the comb filters' feedback level. In general you're going to want that knob set at between 80% and 95% to the maximum. Lower and the combs are too quiet; higher and the feedback gets out of control sometimes, but not always, and unlike most such effects letting it sit at 100% generally doesn't cause destructive feedback at most settings. Main features: 5 comb filters with independent modulated delay times delay times controlled by pitch detection harmonic overtone pool, triggered by a tempo-sync step sequencer a vector mixing X/Y pad to select amongst four different harmonic-modulated delay times harmonic mix control to blend in harmonics with the root pitch-controlled comb filter step sequenced feedback and damping


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