Discord4 vs Velvet Machine

Discord4 is the Audio Damage stereo pitch shifter, in its fourth generation. Each channel has its own pitch shifter, delay, bandpass filter, and feedback, and every repeat runs back through the shifter, so the same effect can double a vocal, stack fifths into an arpeggio, or send echoes spiraling up or down. Three engines set the character. Vintage is modeled on the H910 and H949 and has their grainy, glitchy character. Modern is cleaner and more transparent. Both have a buffer control from 32 to 2048 samples that changes the character of the shift. Granular cuts the signal into grains from 15 to 100 ms long, with an interval control and a Chaos knob that scrambles them, for anything from soft clouds to complete destruction. Detune the two sides a few cents in opposite directions over a short delay for a wide doubler. Set one side a fifth up, sync the delays, and raise the feedback so each repeat climbs another step. Keep the reverb in the loop for shimmer, then hit Freeze to hold a pad under the part. Turn on MIDI Shift to play harmonies from a keyboard, or ride the pitch wheel for bends. • Three pitch-shift engines: Vintage, Modern, and Granular • True stereo: each side has its own shifter, delay, filter, feedback, and pan, or link them so the right follows the left • Up to three octaves up or down, set by the cent or locked to semitones • Delays up to two seconds per side, free-running or tempo-synced, with feedback and cross-feedback • A bandpass filter in each feedback path, set from an XY pad • A stereo reverb inside the loop, with Freeze to hold the tail indefinitely • Saturation in the loop to keep runaway feedback in check • Two flexible LFOs for pitch, delay time, and filter frequency, shaped by Wave, Skew, and Warp, free from 0.01 to 14 Hz or synced to tempo • MIDI Shift: play the shift amount from a keyboard, with pitch bend, in hosts that send MIDI to effects • A preset browser with folders and favorites, and 50 factory presets from everyday doubling to the thoroughly strange Discord4 runs as an AUv3 plugin inside any compatible iOS host, including AUM, Cubasis, Drambo, and apeMatrix, and as a standalone app with background audio for live input. It is also available for macOS, Windows, and Linux as a desktop plugin. Requires iOS 16 or later. An AUv3 host app is recommended. No subscriptions. No accounts. No nonsense. Buy it once, own it forever.

Sonic texture generator / blur / non-linear reverb *** WARNING *** Velvet Machine is an Audio Unit v3 plugin and requires a compatible host such as GarageBand, AUM, Cubasis, Audiobus etc. The provided standalone app does NOT support the currently deprecated Inter-App Audio. *** Velvet Machine is a CPU-intensive effect at high settings. A *minimum* of 5th Gen iPad, iPhone 6s or 1st Gen iPhone SE is required to run a single instance at maximum settings. However, shorter times and/or lower densities use much less CPU. *** Velvet Machine is a unique audio effect based on real-time convolution with enveloped velvet noise. It's designed to: - Stretch and blur out even short sounds to lengths of up to 10 seconds - Produce reverb-like textures with flexible volume envelope (including reverse, fading in and out, pulsating etc.) - Work as a variable density random multi-tap delay (bordering on granular-like sounds) PDF manual and video demos are available on developer website. Features: - Flexible volume envelope with arbitrary number of segments and curvature - Effect time ranging from 50 ms to 10 s - Response density adjustable from 1 to 2000 repeats per second - Predelay up to 1 s - Host tempo sync for time and predelay parameters - High cut and low cut filters for the effected signal - Mix adjustable from 100% dry to 100% wet - Mix Lock to switch presets while keeping the dry/wet mix constant