Frozen Wasteland VCV plugins

A collection of unusual plugins that will add a certain coolness to your patches.

BPM LFO

• Tempo Sync'd LFO.
• Can be either clock driven, or use the BPM output standard of Clockd
• CV Control of Time Multiplication/Division to create LFOs sync'd to some ratio of clock
• Phase Control allows LFOs to be offset (cv controllable). 90° button limits offset to 0, 90, 180, 270 degrees.
• Pairs well with the Quad Algorithmic Rhythm
• When Holding is active, the Outputs stay at last value
• Hold input can either be a gate (which switches each time) or momentary (active while signal is positve)
• If set to Free, LFO still runs while being held (even if outputs don't change), Pause causes LFO to pause.

BPM LFO 2

• Variation of original BPM LFO.
• Can be either clock driven, or use the BPM output standard of Clockd
• CV Control of Time Multiplication/Division and Wave Shape
• Slope control interpolates between selected waveform and a sin wave
• Skew either moves between sawtooth and triangle waves or controls duty cycle of square wave
• Phase Control allows LFOs to be offset (cv controllable). 90° button limits offset to 0, 90, 180, 270 degrees.
• Can either be variable sawtooth/triangle or variable duty cycle square wave

BPM LFO PhaseX

• Expander for both BPM LFO and BPM LFO 2 offering multiple phase outputs.
• Phase Division specifies the equal phase spacing of the outpus (CV Controllable)
• Integer button forces dision to be integer value, turning it off allows smooth slewing between divisions

Damian Lillard

• Voltage Controlled Quad Crossover
• Use Sends/Returns to apply FX to different frequency domains of input signal
• Basic example, distort only the mid lows and/or mid highs so your distortion doesn't remove bottom end
• or, apply different delays to create interesting resonances and other FX
• Video of a snare drum being fed into four delay lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB7A_hzMpNI

Drunken Rampage

• Based on Befaco's Rampage module
• New BAC % control makes DR randomly overshoot input voltage (depending on how drunk you have set the channel, it may take a couple tries to reach it)

Everlasting Glottal Stopper

• Based on the Rosenburg model of human's larynx
• Pairs well with the Vox Inhumana
• Can be a bit fussy to create harmonically "rich" waves, but playing with the "Closed" setting can find some sweet spots
• Use the Noise parameter to add a "breathy" quality to wave

Filling Station

• Allows pattern based mapping of 4 inputs to 16 outputs
• This is ideal for creating complex sounding drum fills using multiple sound sources (but not limited to that)
• Click on a box and then drag up/down to set the output - you need to start with the left most box and then work right
• Each time an input is triggered, the matched output on that step is triggered, then the step for that input advances
• If repeat mode is "None", once the pattern is finished, nothing will trigger until it is reset (with the RESET button or input)
• In "Highest Step" repeat mode, the pattern will auto-reset when the track with the most steps reaches its end
• In "Last Step" repeat mode, the pattern will auto-reset when all tracks have completed
• In "Independent" repeat mode, each track will reset when it reaches its end.

Formal Dinner

• Inspired by XOAC Devices Sophia Eurorack module (which is itself inspired by IRCAM's )
• This is ideal for creating complex sounding drum fills using multiple sound sources (but not limited to that)
• Click on a box and then drag up/down to set the output - you need to start with the left most box and then work right
• Each time an input is triggered, the matched output on that step is triggered, then the step for that input advances
• If repeat mode is "None", once the pattern is finished, nothing will trigger until it is reset (with the RESET button or input)
• In "Highest Step" repeat mode, the pattern will auto-reset when the track with the most steps reaches its end
• In "Last Step" repeat mode, the pattern will auto-reset when all tracks have completed
• In "Independent" repeat mode, each track will reset when it reaches its end.

The Gardener

• Master controller for Seeds of Change (and other sequencers)
• Allows nested sequences of repeated patterns.
• Connect Reseed output to SoC's reseed input to get sequence to repeat every "Reseed Div" clock count
• Connect New Seed Trigger to a source of seed values (say a sequencer or LFO)
• Delay Compensation delays output of Clock Out and Reseed Out triggers by n samples, so that a seed generated by new seed trigger is ready at output in time
• Seed In and Out are polyphonic and there is a delay compensation for the split and merge needed
• Gardener's can be chained together for complex orchestrations of controlled randomness. Check out Dieter Stubler's work.

Hair Pick

• Based on the comb filter section of Intellijel/Cylonix Rainmaker
• Best bet is to refer to this: https://intellijel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/rainmaker_manual-v109.pdf
• Comb filter size is either based on Clock & Division or Size Parameter - patching a clock in disables Size knob
• V/Oct works using either method
• The Size CV can change size +/- 10% using both Clock or Size
• There are 16 comb patterns, the last 8 are randomly perturbed versions of the first 8
• The Tap count can vary the number of taps between 1 and 64. They are deactivated in a pattern shown in the rainmaker manual
• The Edge Level, Tent Level and Tent Tap control the overall volume of the taps.
• Feedback Type can add non-linearity and exponential decay. Clarinet mode is same as guitar for now.
• The size out allows the comb's length to control other modules (say the feedback delay time in Portland Weather)

Just a Phase(r)

• Classic Phaser effect with control over nearly everything
• Mod Type controls how the notches are modulated - either logarithmic, constant, logarithmic with notches alternating directions and constant with notches alternating directions
• Span controls the range of the notches, at 100% it is about 4 octaves

Lissajou LFO.

• Loosely based on ADDAC Systems now discontinued 502 module https://www.modulargrid.net/e/addac-system-addac502-ultra-lissajous
• Each LFO is actually a pair of LFOs (x and y)
• Adjusting them will show harmonic relationship between the two
• Phase of the X oscillators can be adjusted in relation to its Y oscillator
• Shape control allows interpolation between tri/sawooth and sin waveshape
• Skew control moves waveshape between sawtooth - triangle - reverse sawtooth
• Yellow is LFO 1, Blue is LFO 2
• Output 1: (x1 + x2) / 2
• Output 2: (y1 + y2) / 2
• Output 3: (x1 + y1 + x2 + y2) / 4
• Output 4: x1/x2
• Output 5: y1/y2
• Output 6: x1 * x2 (essentially ring modulating them)
• Output 7: y1 * y2
• Output 8: x1 * x2 * y1 * y2

Manic Compression

• This is a fully CV controllable compressor
• Controls are standard for most compressors (threshold, ratio, attack, release)
• RMS mode uses a window (whose length is controlled by the RMS window controls) to find peaks, otherwise is an instantaneous peak detector
• Attack and Release curves can make curves range from exponential to linear to logarithmic depending on input.
• Old Opto compressors were famous for having non-linear (exponential in their case) release times
• LP Filter applies a Low pass filter onto the input before it is sent to level detector. This can allow transients to go through before compressor kicks in (great for drums)
• HP Filter applies a Hi pass filter onto the input before it is sent to level detector. This prevents detector reacting to harder to hear low frequencies before compressor kicks in (great for bass)
• Mid-Side mode encodes the inputs into mid-side format and allows compression of either the mid or side portion, then the signal is converted back to stereo
• In the menu, there is an option for "Gate Mode". all of the CV inputs for switches (Bypass, RMS, LP Filter, etc.) are normally triggers. Gate Mode turns them into gate inputs
• If direction is set to upwards, instead of lowering gain for signals above the threshold, the gain is increased for signals below the threshold.
• In the menu there are three options for the Envelope out - gain reduced linear, linear and exponential. If the last two are used, the output voltage very high with large gain reduction amounts

Meglomanic Compression

• Basically 5 band version of Manic Compression
• Each Band has a Filter Cutoff, band 1 is low pass, band 5 is high pass, the rest are band pass with controllable bandwidth
• Each Band compressor's features are the same as above
• By using Bands' Envelope outs and ins, you can have the detector of one band control another.
• Band Sidechain allows the filtered signal (whether source or sidechain) to be fed into the detector of another band (or something else)
• Band Outs let the compressed band to be sent to something else
• Band Ins bypass the filter stage and go directly to compressors
• With two Megalomanic compressors, with the outs of one going to the ins of the 2nd, and the first MMC doing upward compression, Ableton's OTT effect can be reproduced

Midichlorian

• Allows VSTs in Host to play microtonal scales
• Polyphonic CV input gets broken into a Polyphonic CV out for Host's CV input and a polyphonc Pitch Bend output for Host
• Set Pitch Bend in VST to +/- 1 half step

Midi Recorder

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