TremoSquare
TL;DW: TremoSquare is a squarewave tremolo effect that only switches on zero crossings.
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I meant to put out BassAmp today, but it’s not ready: needs more work. But I had this weird little critter handy, and so it’s skipping ahead whether you like it or not!
And that depends on what you get up to, signal processing wise. TremoSquare comes out of one of my livestreams, where I coded a plugin from scratch one Monday so people could watch the process. (I do that now.) It’s a squarewave tremolo, but it only transitions from silent to full volume on the zero crossings.
What that does, is firstly give the aggressive tremolo a nice warm coloration that doesn’t click or crackle, even on bassy sounds. But secondly, if you ramp up the frequency super high, it stops registering as a frequency because the crossings take precedence and interfere with the frequency of the transitions. So, you get a distinct sort of ‘de-rezzing’ effect that’s literally nothing but a tremolo, except it’s sculpted to be smoother and more graceful. It doesn’t tempo sync: think of it more like that effect on Bowie’s ‘Diamond Dogs’ album of singing through a fan that’s on. It’s got a dry/wet control so it can be faded in for effect, and the frequency range of the tremolo is extremely huge.
Hope you like it! I meant to do an entirely different plugin, but I just had this lying around…
All this is supported by Patreon, otherwise I wouldn’t have got this far and you wouldn’t have this, free and open source. Thanks to everyone who’s supporting the Patreon, and I’m fiercely working on bringing even more things to the table… without slacking off on the weekly plugin posting. You never can tell when you’ll get a nifty audio tool that fits perfectly with what you do, and that’s where the fun is for me :)
Really interesting! It’ll be cool to try this on different drum loops. Thanks, Chris.
You’re a genius, as usual! Thank you for this.-
So good