Pafnuty2
TL;DW: Pafnuty2 is a Chebyshev filter, that adds harmonics, and fits in the VCV Rack port.
Pafnuty is a Chebyshev filter. What are those? Well, it’s not much like your usual filter: you don’t use this to roll off highs or lows (though under some conditions you might be able to do any of those things). A Chebyshev filter is like a mathematical formula. It works like this: if you feed it a sine wave (at exactly 0dB, or barely-clipping) it can generate entirely new sine waves to add to your sine wave. Which ones? Harmonically related ones. You can have twice, three, four times the frequency, all the way up to thirteenth harmonic.
What do you get when you run music into this sine-multiplying filter? If your audio has no frequencies that, multiplied, go higher than the sampling rate, you get perfect aliasing-free harmonic enhancement. The way the filter works, it absolutely doesn’t generate anything higher than the multipliers it works with. It’s a sort of color-adding harmonic enhancement where you can pick what kind of coloration you add (or subtract, since all the controls go both ways). If the frequencies do go higher than the sampling rate then they do alias, but the way Pafnuty resists adding extra harmonics helps it to resist aliasing and if you don’t add lots of higher harmonics you can go very high in frequency, cleanly.
Now that it fits into the VCV Rack port, you can run a sine LFO into it, and then all sorts of other LFOs into all the parameters, to produce a bizarre modular hyper-LFO, and that’s why I knew this one needed updating :)
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I like the idea of you working on speciality reverb patches, such as the ‘background’ reverb a big space has. I also did recordings (maybe I should say, I DID recordings… haha) in a medium-large wooden hall years ago and the bleed or reverb never got in the way of what I was, very poorly, playing and recording. Yet, as others are aware who use many reverb and space plugins, it’s really hard to find plugins to sit in behind a sound when you want it, and not drown or dominate with a particular flavour that might not be appropriate.
I use spring reverbs quite a lot for this reason, as they impart a certain lofi quality (depending on the actual machine, impluse or plugin replication) and can be made to sit back and provide a certain airiness without the, for me, despicable and unwanted ‘studio sheen’.
Also – another word in for Console series. If you can find a path to do a new Console, or just another update to Console 7 or 8, that would NOT require keeping the DAW faders at zero, you would be on a real winner. The sound of Console 8 is great, and I’ve found even not keeping DAW faders at unity has a ‘pleasing’ effect.. ok it might be doing naughty things to interanl filtering or something, but I can’t hear that.
A BIG YES TO A NEW TO TAPE TOO! Great news.
More ‘squishing’ is something I would like to happen generally with the two I use most often To Tape 564 and 664, and the distortion from pushing the input to real machines too – from pleasing to messy. Sometimes I just want to hear a bit more edge to the effect, other times you want it like clean ‘safe level’ recording.
The flutter on 664 is the most useful musicaly, as you would be aware.
Thank you Chirs, long may you continue! And get your Bricasti.
I have not used Pafnuty that much. I will try it again. And WOW. The reverb”Test” you played was fantastic. Exciting! Galactic is great, but those new ones with tighter lowend/low mids and (little) less washy could be the true winners. Yay.
Nice, I was actually just revisiting the original Pafnuty last week!
Can they be recreated with waveshaping? I got extremely close to recreating the ‘Third’ in a waveshaper just with symmetrical half-sine curves, but i failed to even get close to any other.
Really appreciating this last wave of updates. Thank you!
Hello and Thanks for your awesome work! I just want to apologize, I was little critical in one of youtube videos years ago, anyhow, I am more and more digging to your material. So Blessings from my side, best Regards Tim Susa