After prototype different kind of simple distortions in NetworkEditor i managed to port all them to ladspa plugins. Despite the fact that the task was less difficult than i had expected at first, prototype with CLAM first worth a lot. Probably, if i had begun coding directly to ladspa source, reach the same status would be taken to me 10 or more times more. I think also was very interesting as “development process”, instead of modeling for example with matlab, you could easy modeling (among other things) in CLAM, and then, if you want/need make your final product by your own.

More, the other day i learned that is already possible to compile ladspa plugins directly from CLAM networks… very cool! Though i think this feature is not completely ready yet and i’m still have to dig in it, i don’t think that i have lost time porting manually because now i have a better knowledge and understanding about ladspa specification that for sure will be useful to work with this (for me “new”) feature, that probably needs some fixes.

About the ladspa plugins programming, i just downloaded the sdk from ladspa.org, read some of the ladspa.h file and some basic examples (the ones from sdk) and that was enough to handle the basis. Ah, i had to ask for some ladspa ID’s for my plugins here: ladspa at muse.demon.co.uk

On the other hand i’ve forwarded my distortion examples to musix distro folks and some of them indeed have tried it and made a couple of jack-rack presets and audio demos. More info about this here: DSP-es#Presets, ogg demos and jack-rack presets, and patchs review.

Next step (in my TODO list): produce ladspa binaries directly from CLAM networks.

I have uploaded these plugins here: disthordian ladspa plugins.

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A week or more ago, Daniel Vidal Chornet (collaborator of Musix) asked me if i can develop guitar distortion effects, because he couldn’t find something decent that suits his needs, i said “sadly i have no idea about distortions effects and anyway i have no time right now to do that”, but then i remembered how useful could be the clam framework and i tried to do a little spike about. Results were better than i had expected at first (is not a super cool distortion, but at least sound like one).

Basically i merged and tweaked a couple of simple/base algorithms found in the web for distortion and compression and in less than 30 minutes i had something working and sounds like a guitar distortion (”clean” ones seems to sound better easily). I was amazed how fast and easy (develop and test in clam/networkeditor, once you get the basis) was. I think right now is far to be a good distortion, but as learning process and first demo seems very good.

Here some sound examples:

Original:
(dvlc-guitar.ogg)

With distortion:
(guitardist-ex1.ogg)

Test network looks like:

The source code is here (as NetworkEditor plugin): GuitarDistortion.tar.gz

Some optional tweaks could include add a three band filter but i’m still not sure if it’s better to put it at first or at the end.

Special thanks for testing and audio samples to Daniel Vidal Chornet. I should take from my closet my fender stratocaster and do my own samples . OTOH, we already arrange to do a remote gig with this.

Another useful NetworkEditor processings plugins i had made during this “work”:

• AutomaticGainControl: Adaptative automatic gain control. Given an output reference and step response adjusts the output volume to keep it constant (AutomaticGainControl.tar.gz)
• AudioSwitch: Switchs between a configurable amount of inputs (like a multiplexer) (AudioSwitch.tar.gz)

 
Related: LADSPA versions of my recent simple distortions
Update: Distortion rack prototype

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