This reminds me of something. I came across this article about this person who had something weird happen to their music CDs and they were really interesting to listen to. So the weird thing was that they spilled some, I think it was yogurt, on the CDs, and then this film grew into these fractal patterns on the CDs, and then it dried, and then they didn't realize until after they popped it into the CD player what had happened because the music came out all wtf. Not too wtf, just enough to sound very different. And the film on the CDs wasn't really that apparent that something was on it until you looked really closely at the CDs. The patterns on the CD distorted the music, making the laser in the CD player go in unexpected places, sometimes just repeating parts, sometimes backwards, sometimes it repeated parts in a loop which got fainter and fainter until it disappeared, mostly just not playing it correctly at all, but not like when a music file gets corrupted and just plays noise. I think one of the songs was "Hotel California" by the Eagles. It made the song way more trippy than it already was. I don't have the song files any more, probably that was like 7 computers ago. And like I said, I can't find anything about it online. But it sounds like you have done with your device what the yogurt did to the CDs. In any case, it sounds pretty cool.
This is similar to how early IDM artist "OVAL" made their music in the 1990s. It sounds like someone read an interview about their process and told a friend and after a few rounds of the Telephone Game we arrive at the yogurt CD story.
Oh wow when you described how the pedal works I was expecting a basic modulated delay but this is something else entirely, reminds me of a fancy eurorack module more than anything. This is def the coolest implementation of your triple bypass thing, the warping sound when clicking it on is crazy. I already have four delays on my board but I'm getting this one anyway.
Very clever delay, the use of lfo sampling is very cool, and the cv control makes it super flexible, awesome work Simon! The demo of it emulating a slide guitar at the end is impressive too!
I'm thinking this might be interesting to use the output signal as a trigger for a vibration device 😜 for serious 👽 controling vibration speed, pulse etc. 🎉
Juanito from modular in the masses is awesome! and you should do a collab with him... i dont know if yall know each other or not, he makes the tin can synths and modular for the masses hes awesome, and so are you! could you imagine what wild thing you two would make?! please do it, and let me preorder whatever yall make haha
Very cool pedal. Syncing the clock sounds really good. You have the drifting wonkiness, but still locked to the correct tempo, so it doesn't degenerate into a incoherent mess!
