Whoa, those are some really funky guitar effects! Have you ever listened to “By-Tor and the Snow Dog” by Rush? It’s a little like that growling dog guitar effect taken to a whole new level, with some psychedelic sprinkles on top.
It’s fun to see Elastika used like that. I would never have thought of that myself.
Thanks, haven’t heard that but I’ll check it out! I’m sure there are many more cool sounds to discover given the time. As with most effects, it’s really the modulation we have available in VCV that opens up the possibilities.
very interesting,
it would be interesting to have a short example of the clean, unprocessed guitar sound to compare it
Thanks, that’s a good idea actually. I usually use clean tones but found that Elastika works quite well with distortion, so I added some grit ans also quite a lot of compression on the last one.
@cosinekitty Don, I can see these updates below. can you provide a nightly compiled bins!? they sound fabulous! thank you!
"Elastika now uses about 60% of the CPU it used to, thanks to a complete overhaul of its physics engine.
Added an optional resampler to run Elastika at a different rate than the engine rate. For backward compatibility, the resampler is disabled by default.
UI improvement: the channel count sliders in Hiss, Pop, and Split/Add/Merge now visually “snap” in steps, instead of sliding smoothly."
Yes @nate.reeves, here are binaries for the release candidate of version Sapphire 2.5.7:
[EDIT: I have removed the self-hosted binaries because these updates are now available in the VCV Rack library.]
I need to figure out how to better automate this for people who don’t have GitHub accounts.
Thank you for your kind words, and I’ll be interested to hear any feedback. I’ll be submitting to the VCV Rack library for approval later today, assuming no last-minute issues pop up.
Sapphire 2.5.7 is now available in the VCV Rack Library, and includes the CPU optimizations mentioned above for Elastika.