The mod-plugin-cookbook: using AI to create new plugins

Claude has just finished my next batch, not tried them yet but here they are

h90-wormhole.mk (12.7 KB)

h90-tremoloverb.mk (11.4 KB)

h90-crushstation.mk (10.4 KB)

h90-micropitch.mk (11.7 KB)

h90-tricerachorus.mk (9.8 KB)

h90-evenvibe.mk (9.3 KB)

h90-rotary.mk (11.9 KB)

h90-undulator.mk (11.7 KB)

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Hi all,

This feature seems very promising, I also made 2 plugins.The flashback delay feels usable, i think the Poly Mod needs some adjustments yet, but for experiment it’s fine.

flashback-delay.mk (16.2 KB)

poly-mod.mk (24.6 KB)

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going to try these today if I can, I ran through a bunch of the others last night, and man some of them sound way better than I expected. I’ve only played through an H9/90 once so I have no idea how close they are, and it of course doesn’t really matter. I really like the blackhole in particular, and I think the resonator is a cool and unique sound. I thought it was funny how the ultra tap was so low gain–I have one of those standalone ultra tap pedals and it’s so quiet it’s borderline unusable, though my particular unit may have some quirks.. Anyway, I’d be very interested to try the revamped “chroma console” at some point. I’m glad you’re enjoying making these, as I’m having a great time playing with them! Thank you! Going to try @Lipi 's flashback as well, I have that hardware pedal too.

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Thanks Smash, really appreciate that. I’m running through the H90 and Zoom MS70CDR effects at present but will do the chroma console next and maybe re do the infinite jets and dream sequencer. Happy to do requests so if you think I’m missing a gem just give me a shout. Will upload the zooms later when I check they work as my first batch didn’t even compile.

Lipi thanks for uploading yours, look forward to trying them out this evening

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corona chorus.mk (9.6 KB)

zoom-slicer.mk (7.1 KB)

zoom-organ.mk (6.6 KB)

zoom-monosynth.mk (8.8 KB)

zoom-dirtygate.mk (6.9 KB)

zoom-bomber.mk (8.6 KB)

zoom-bmonosynth.mk (7.4 KB)

zoom-bitcrush.mk (6.1 KB)

zoom-bdirtygate.mk (6.7 KB)

zoom-autopan.mk (6.6 KB)

organ is abit rubbish but does have a quirkiness which might be handy

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angry-beard-iii.mk (9.3 KB)

diode-drive.mk (12.2 KB)

rodent-drive.mk (8.5 KB)

heavy-od.mk (10.3 KB)

Hi there,

I made a few overdrive/distortion pedals, based on real schematics.Diode drive is a flexible overdrive, Rodent drive is based on a simple RAT distortion schematic, Heavy drive is based on the Carl Martin pedal, and Angry beard is a fuzz pedal with 2 switchable voices.They sound good, but I can refine them if needed.

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dod-corrosion-distortion.mk (11.1 KB)

dod-classic-tube.mk (8.8 KB)

dod-attacker.mk (10.9 KB)

dod-hardrock-distortion.mk (11.6 KB)

I made a few DOD distortion/overdrive pedals too, i think these sound great.

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Struggling with my h90 reverbs at moment but got the SP2016 Working. Stunning reverb!

h90-sp2016.mk (13.5 KB)

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Hi Austin,

That sounds great!I kepton working on some new effects, here they are!

shimmer-pitch-delay.mk (16.8 KB)

beholder-ringmod.mk (12.5 KB)

memory-man-delay.mk (13.7 KB)

electric-mistress-flanger.mk (11.3 KB)

Later I will refine the pitch control on the “Shimmer pitch delay” effect.I’ve reached my limit for today!

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Ah that’s great, will check them out later - got the Isle of Wight festival so unable till Monday.

It’s highly addictive isn’t it. I try not to do drives as I have millions of plugins and pedals but I’m liking the weirder stuff and the h90 stuff.

I think maybe we should pick say 10 and really drill down with them to get them working fully and naming them etc I love the H90 SP2016 I made but I’m sure that’s not what the real one sounds like. So eventually it needs renaming to say Ambient Revern as it quite “washy” etc and adding all the relevant controls and switches that actually do something.

It’s so frustrating using Claude, just asking one questions uses all my tokens so I have to wait 5 hours!

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Yes it is, but that’s the only one that creates the makefiles in mk fromat.The distortions/overdrive doesn’t need more work, maybethe gain range can be refined sometimes,otherwise they sound good.The weird effects, sometimes need a secound round to refine some parameters, that’s what i did with Beholder ringmod, and I will update soon Shimmer pitch delay (based on Strymon Ice delay mod)

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super nice work!

What was your approach, to recreate these effects?

I just wandered what would be possible to create with that way.I turned out, that if i copy a schematic diagram of a certain effect pedal, it can recreate it quite well. If it’s not capable to do it, it can create something similar based on the original effect. I also try to create effects without diagram, but in this case I have to know well the effect parameters and their ranges and curves to get a good result, and it takes more time.

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random-filter-sweep.mk (14.1 KB)

notedumble.mk (11.9 KB)

4looper.mk (18.1 KB)

mantischorus.mk (8.4 KB)

mojodrive.mk (20.4 KB)

Hi all,

Here are a few new plugins.One 4 channel looper, a Chorus, 2 overdrives, and a random filter generator.I hope you will like them.

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I just made my first plug-in!

Each frequency band can be continuously mixed between Input 1 and Input 2. Seven adjustable crossover points define the eight bands. Both inputs have independent gain controls and solo buttons, making level matching easy.

morph-eq.mk (16,9 KB)

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Hi mate, sorry I forgot to post my response last week.

I use both Claude and gemini at present. Both seems to work OK but have different work flows. Claude also really eats up your messages quickly so it can take a day to get the mk file. Gemini creates the mk file as a text that you copy into a program and save it as an mk file. I use Quickedit app on my android phone to save the text as a mk file which seems to work fine.

The main points are give them so much information in the first instance. You don’t want a meandering answer or further questions wasting your tokens. Also try and add a working mk file as an example so it can see what it needs to make. Stipulate you only need a single mk file no extra files or zips. And that Claude or gemini needs to create the full code.

If you need anything else feel free to give me a shout. Look forward to seeing your creations soon

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Also try creating a pedal that you don’t really know the schematic for as sometimes it creates something quite different and funky - infinite jets springs to mind then you can always tweak it later. Glad you’ve been busy. Will check out your creations when I get back

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Yes, building from schematics was just the start.In the last 2 days i created some interesting effects based on some Beetronics pedals, without the schematics.I don’t really know if it’s close to the original pedals, but the results are insane!During this monthi signed up for Claude pro, so i will create more effects, and i will polish a few which are not quite perfect yet.

zzombee.mk (17.5 KB)

beebeedee.mk (16.3 KB)

seabee.mk (20.1 KB)

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That’s awesome, looking forward to trying those. Let me know how you get on with Claude pro. Be interested to know how many extra tokens you get before the dreaded wait 6 hours!

So I think we need to be a bit more structured. It’s been so much fun so far but maybe each one of us needs to concentrate on one idea and give details of each plugin to help others choose. Maybe you do the beetronics stuff. I still working on the h90 stuff, someone else does drives etc. Be nice if we could get it tidied up. You never know Gianfranco or Jon might give us our own thread :wink:

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