This patch is a multi-effects unit with Over-The-Top-style multi-band compressor/distortion, chorus, modulatable stereo delay, and reverb based on the one from Mutable Instruments’ Elements.
To get started: turn down the output volume knob, connect a sound source to the Gills’ audio input, connect your headphones/speakers to Gills’ audio output, and play some audio while slowly turning up the volume knob.
If there’s no audio, check your sound source, your cables, the input/output volume knobs, the OTT Gain knob (1st row 5th knob), and the OTT output gain (2nd row 2nd-4th knobs) on Gills.
There are 3 pages in this patch. Use button S3 to switch pages.
OTT Compressor/Distortion
Stereo Delay
Chorus & Reverb
Signal flow: OTT → Delay → Chorus → Reverb
The encoder adjusts the global dry/wet mix. LED L1 shows the wet signal. LED L2 shows the dry signal.
Button S4 has different functions on each page.
multi-fx.axp (71.8 KB)
Page 1: OTT Compressor/Distortion
Based on Ableton’s OTT multiband compressor, the audio gets split into low, mid, high frequency bands with 2 state-variable filters, and each frequency band goes through a heavily-compressed compressor. Button L4 turns on the resonance for the filters. The resonance can be adjusted through the patcher.
- Low-mid frequency band
- Low in: adjust the input gain of low band before it’s dynamically processed
- Mid in: adjust the input gain of mid band before it’s dynamically processed
- High in: adjust the input gain of high band before it’s dynamically processed
- OTT gain
- Mid-high frequency band
- Low out: adjust the output gain of low band
- Mid out: adjust the output gain of mid band
- High out: adjust the output gain of high band
- OTT mix: 0 = dry signal, 64 = wet signal
Page 2: Stereo Delay
Time-modulatable stereo delay with filter control. You must turn the ‘Dry Wet’ knob (the 1st knob on this page) in order to hear any effect. Button L4 turns on ping pong mode.
- Dry wet: How much of the delay effect you can hear.
- LFO rate: rate of LFO applied to delay. Higher values (while turning ‘LFO amount’) will give you vibrato.
- LFO amount: amount of LFO applied to delay. Higher values give you stronger vibrato, chorus, or flanger effects.
- Env mod direction: Audio envelope modulation direction. It reads the signal of both kick and audio input to modulate delay time. Turn clockwise to affect delay time normally, turn counter-clockwise to affect inversely.
- Env mod amt: Amount of audio envelope modulation applied to delay time. Turn all the way counter-clockwise for no effect. Slowly turn clockwise to hear the incoming audio affecting the delay time.
- Left time: Delay time for left channel.
- Right time: Delay time for right channel.
- Feedback: Delay feedback. If nothing’s playing and there’s still sound coming out of your Ksoloti, turn this knob down. It can self-resonate with nothing patched to it.
- Filter freq: A base filter is applied to the delay line. Turn this up if you want less bass in your delay signal.
- Filter width: Width of the base filter.
Page 3: Chorus & Reverb
Stereo chorus with feedback and reverb based on Mutable Instruments’ Elements module. Button L4 inverts the chorus feedback.
- Chorus speed
- Chorus pre-delay
- Reverb time
- Reverb pre high-pass filter: Turn this up if you want less bass before processed by the reverb.
- Reverb gain: if you can’t hear any reverb after adjusting the mix, try turning this knob.
- Chorus mix
- Chorus feedback
- Reverb diffusion
- Reverb low-pass filter: muffles the reverb signal
- Reverb mix
