Re: Vortex revisited

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> This is not correct; using the unit's manual algorithms drawings I was 
>  able to replicate almost all Vortex algorithms on my Eventide Orville.
>  These algos also work on DSP4000/GTR4000/DSP4500/DSP7000/DSP7500.
>  Having a better and more in depth description of Vortex algos would 
>  improve my design a bit. The manual doesn't tell the whole story, of 
>  course. 

Hi Italo
Did you get each and every algorithm to morph into every other?
The manual doesn't tell you how to do this at all, as some parameter 
values are present in one algorithm, but not in an other.
So as you morph away from one algorithm what happens to those values?
They don't stay constant .
Seems to me they head towards either 1 or 64, and that this is responsible 
for some of the Vortex "wierdness".

Also I wonder if you've duplicated the timbres of the various Vortex FX?
Some of the patches I have are a long way from the supplied presets,
would your system duplicate them ?

Can you take two separate loops, and splice them together into one long 
loop?
(so it sounds ABABABAB)   (and looking at the Orville manual, nothing is 
impossible)

...and if you can do that, I presume that you could also do similar sorts 
of 
things that the Vortex can't.
(even forgetting about pitchshifting and filtering)

If you need any info as to the Vortex algos, you can always drop me a 
line, 
and I can probably work it out for you.

andy butler (can't afford an Orville, which costs about 25 times what my 
Vortex did)