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Spectral Delay

Spectral Delay with Freezing function

(75 Votes)
2.3 (Updated 9 years ago)
893.1kB
September 01, 2012
Reaktor 5 or lower
Effect Filter

DESCRIPTION

this is a classic spectral delay based on ezFFT with some extras:

you can select specific frequency bands and freeze them in the feedback loop on the fly while the other frequency bins keep processing incoming sound

there's an LFO controlled spectral panner

dynamics are controlled by just click-dragging over the scope on top of the interface to set the amplitude ceilling for each bin


for FFT builders:
i am using the higher resolution frame size (1024) option from the two original ezFFT macros. initially i had problems with a noisy low end when freezing only the first few bins due to the limitation of only 2 overlapps that ezFFT has and the harsh windowing. i've found a solution by applying a different window (hann) for only the first 3 bins. now the sound is perfectly smooth and clear over the whole spectrum. it comes at the cost of doubling cpu though, because i have to run two ffts in parallel. i think it's well worth the extra sound quality though and cpu is still only around 17% on my five year old macbook.

enjoy!


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v2 update:
a minor fix to make the LFO work with different sample rates

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v2.1 update:
i forgot to connect the wires for the mix knob. now the dry/wet mix should work

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v2.2 update:
compression display is accurate for all samplerates

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v2.3 update:

added mute buttons for the frequency selection

windowing breakpoint is changed from 4 to 10 to remove all artifacts

COMMENTS  (8)

Eric Sterling
6 years ago
just discovered this (miss my old spektral delay so much). Sure wish the x and y axis of the delay and feedback could be modulated though (realize this is a pretty old ensemble)
Living Fossil
8 years ago
It's great to have this Spectral Delay! It would be great to have the possibility to sync the delay times...
Pawel Niejadlik
9 years ago
Totally awesome! Good old Spektral Delay!
Ralf Blagau
9 years ago
thank you all for downloading and thanks for the kind words! if anyone has any suggestions or needs any help hacking this just let me know.
Storlon Infloria
9 years ago
like it (:
Felix Petrescu
9 years ago
lovely spectral fun machine ! thanks.
Ralf Blagau
9 years ago
great! i am glad to hear that this is useful.
Jonas Broberg
9 years ago
I can't believe this! Absolutely BRILLIANT!! I've been wanting something like this for some time and I don't have the old Spektral delay. Thank you very much!
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