RE: Reflex/Vortex Resonators

[pycraft@elec.gla.ac.uk (Dr M. P. Hughes)]

First things first:
>No, Andrea is of no relation to Madonna.  That was one of the first 
>questions that I asked her.

Fer shame!
She must _really_ be getting sick of that question by now.

>The resonators in the Reflex and Vortex are very different.  In the 
>Vortex 
>the resonator parameters are handled differently within each algorithm.  
>In 
>the Reflex the chromatic resonator algorithm resonates chromatically off 
>of 
>the input signal creating something like chromatic arpeggiation.  This is 
>an 
>interesting sound though not that useful in the traditional sense, but 
>hey, 
>youse folks here on dis list ain't the most traditional bunch anyway.
>The chromatic resonator will make one note sound as if several notes were 
>struck.  The inverse room may make your guitar sound more bowed if that 
>is 
>what you mean by violin or cello like.

Not really... I was hoping for something more along the lines of waveform
transformation... speaking of which, has anyone tried using a pitch-shifter
to vary the waveform by adding low-level, octave-up "harmonics"?

So what does the vortex resonator do differently?

Michael

Dr Michael Pycraft Hughes      Bioelectronic Research Centre, Rankine Bldg,
Tel: (+44) 141 330 5979        University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K.
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