tuned, arpeggiated reverb

[earthtonesaudio]

So imagine you start with a big mess of tuned, damped oscillators that would trigger and ring out when you feed them an input which is similar to their tuned frequency.
Then you add attack/decay controls to the lot.
Then you add modulation to the attack/decay, so you get some sort of response like:

Play an E major chord,
A bunch of oscillators in that key are triggered and start ringing,
an LFO attenuates one band at a time, moving up and then down the scale, sort of like an inverted arpeggio.


I don't know much about digital but my gut tells me this is something that would be difficult to accomplish regardless of whether digital or analog technology is used... but I think it would be really fun. 

[Quackzed]

yeah!
me too!
a good place to start that climb is to design a single oscillator that 'rings' when you play it's 'note' .

[earthtonesaudio]

Yeah!  I was thinking each one could be a class C amplifier, so you could use one "band" for that fundamental as well as it's harmonics.

(I keep waiting for someone like R.G. to step in and say something like "congratulations... you've invented the vocoder.")

[petemoore]

  INteresting concept !