STRANGE

STRANGE is a distortion effect. A Lorenz attractor and a Logistic map run all the time and move the settings of the distortion, so the sound keeps moving while you play.

Synth Anatomy: "you can immerse yourself in more unusual, crazy, filthy distortions."

Modes

Four modes give the chaos different jobs.

• Fold: wraps the wave back on itself.
• Shatter: bitcrushes and lowers the sample rate.
• Warp: sends the sound through a resonator whose delay time is moved by the chaos.
• Glitch: keeps recording the sound and replays the last short slice of it, like a skip back.

Controls

• Chaos: how fast the chaos runs, from 1 to 200 Hz, and how strongly it affects the mode.
• Drive: gain into the distortion, from 1x to 16x.
• Feedback: sends the wet signal back to the input, up to 95%.
• Tone: tilts the balance between lows and highs, up to 6 dB each way, around 900 Hz.
• Mix: blends dry and wet. The wet signal is level-matched to the input.
• Output: output gain from minus 24 to plus 24 dB. A soft clipper keeps the output at or below 0 dBFS.

Formats

• iPhone and iPad: an AUv3 in AUM, GarageBand, Logic or any other AUv3 host, plus a standalone app. Needs iOS 14 or later.
• Mac and Windows: VST3 and CLAP, plus AU on Mac.

The loop in this demo is from the drumloop pack Iron Sweep.