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DESCRIPTION

MegaDelayBrute is live looper designed for use in live performance. The primary application is looping of vocals and instruments rather than beat looping.

It features tempo-synched live loop capture, and playback in either straight delay mode (kinda like the $500 Boss Delay pedal), or in granular resynthesis mode.

Interaction with the granular synth is performed by clicking and dragging on the waveform window, which is also great for non-beat-based material. The UI allows for easy scrubbing and stutter effects, with less of a focus on sequencing than is usual in live loopers.

MegaDelayBrute also provides a mechanism for capturing and previewing live loops on a monitor channel without without playing them on the main output. Like I said: very much built for live performance. There's no provision for for recording or saving samples because.... you guessed it. It's very mucy built for live performance.

The granular resynthesis module uses a Granular Synthesis macro written in Core, which seems to do a very nice job with vocal and instrumental material.

CPU use is not modest (~20% on an Athlon X2 +3800). My feeling: *I* have the CPU cycles to burn, so I may as well use them. So I did. My programmig philosophy: don't optimize if you don't have to. I didn't. If you have problems, you can always remove the second instance of the MegaDelayBrute instrument, which will cut the CPU use in half.

Enjoy. If you manage to extend the ensemble with useful goodies or nice effects, let me know. Performance. That's what I want to do. But I keep on having to build the bits I want from scratch. This one's going out on stage for sure.

Revision history:

v1.1: fixed a defect in the Lagrange interpolators in the Grain synth. Granular synthesis is *dramatically* smooother. Added slew limit control, and pitch shifting keyed off midi notes.