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§03 · Playing

Jam room

The oldest of the three things. Started in my early teens, never stopped, still chasing one bend hit right instead of ten notes fast.

signal chain
  1. guitar
  2. fuzz
  3. octaver
  4. amp
  5. cab
  6. out
oscilloscope
idle
silent until you play something
d minor pentatonic · press a s d f g, or click

ToneForge

I built it because none of the rigs I owned sounded like the thing I heard in my head. Real-time DSP in C with lock-free atomic parameters, AVAudioEngine in Swift, a WSOLA octaver, a YIN harmoniser, an autocorrelation tuner, and tube-saturation amps with real tonestack values.

round trip
~8 ms
effects
29
presets
118
amp models
9
audio thread
no locks, no allocations

Closed source for now. If you want to see it work, I will send a signed build and walk through the audio thread with you: [email protected].

By ear

Gilmour’s phrasing is the standard nobody really cleared. I work these out slowly, by ear, until they stop feeling mechanical. It takes as long as it takes.

  • Comfortably Numb
  • Echoes
  • Time
  • Shine On You Crazy Diamond