Shepard tone generator

[carbon14 (David O'Rourke)]

I hardly do anything with VCV Rack at the moment.

But today I just felt like trying something out.

I built a shepard tone generator.

[andreya.ek.frisk]

Nice! You may be interested in this module: VCV Library - Count Modula Shepard Generator It helps generate the modulation signals for things like this.

[DaveVenom (Dave Benham)]

There have been a number of posts about Shepard tones (Risset-Shepard Glissandos) and the closely related Risset rhythms. The following discussion has a bunch of links, as well as original content.

Risset Rhythm in VCV

Recently there has been some interest within the VCV community about Risset Rhythms - something I had never heard of before. They are a compositional technique that gives the illusion of a constantly accelerating or decelerating rhythm, very similar to a Shepard tone, or Shepard scale, or Risset - Shepard glissando. There is a decent Wikipedia article about Shepard tones that includes the following example of a Risset rhythm - the best and most musical example I have been able to find. …

It is always fun to come up with new ways to patch them, though they all typically revolve around common themes.