New plugin: dm-Stutter

This is another Stutter plugin. This one is very much inspired by Jonny Greenwood’s solo on Radiohead - Go To Sleep. But it’s also very suited for beat mangling.

Whenever the effect is turned on an audio snippet of random length will be repeated. When the effect is on and you switch the “trigger” toggle on or off a new snippet of audio will be repeated.

The “Note probability” section gives you control over the time intervals to be chosen for the repeated audio snippet lengths.

When “auto” is on the stutter effect is generated automatically. “Duration” controls for how long a certain snippet of audio can be repeated with probability. E.g. it’s more likely to have a longer duration of repeats when you turn it clockwise.
“Chance” controls the likeliness of the repeats or the dry input to be heard for the randomly generated duration explained above. At full clockwise you will always hear the stutter effect, at full counterclockwise you will only hear the dry signal input.

When “auto” is off the stutter effect will be activated by turning on the device and switching the “trigger” toggle.

The “sync” parameter is enabled by default. This makes the effect sync with the host’s BPM. When “sync” is turned off you control the duration for a quarter note with the “pulse” parameter. By setting a very quick pulse duration you can get more glitchy sound effects.
When “sync” is turned on the “pulse” knob functions as a tempo multiplier. You can quarter, half, double or quadruple the tempo. E.g. when “pulse” doubles the tempo a quarter note practically becomes an eight note. This enables you to change the range of available time intervals if needed.

This plugin is not yet in the BETA store. If you want to check it out, you can find a build here: Releases · davemollen/dm-Stutter · GitHub

8 Likes

Can I suggest that you upload your builds as part of release publication instead of committing them to git directly?
It’s quite bad practice to put such release binaries in git directly.

You can quite easily let your CI upload builds for you.

Will give this one a try later this week :slight_smile:

1 Like

That’s a good suggestion. I have thought about that before, but didn’t know exactly how to approach that. I guess you don’t wanna depend on running the bootstrap script, because it can take more than an hour. Do you have an example of a mod CI pipeline maybe?

Cardinal does MOD builds as well: Cardinal/.github/workflows/build.yml at main · DISTRHO/Cardinal · GitHub

I see it uses a minimal argument for the bootstrap script.

2 Likes

Cool, thanks! I will give that a shot later

Alright, I’ve managed to make it part of my release pipeline. Just download the latest dwarf, duo and duox builds here. The downloaded zipfile include the plugin and some installation instructions.

Let me know if there are other suggestions.

5 Likes