Just a quick post to announce the release of the Zeit Year 50 Collection bundle from Dome Music Technologies.
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Once I had coded up the Zeit module and started experimenting, I kept finding myself building the same patterns of external modules around it. So, instead of making a preset pack with tons of modules from Core, I decided to package up the required functionality into three 'helper' modules:
BPM Converter, which allows you to specify delays in musically meaningful terms such as tempo and note length (including dotted notes and triplets). I also added a Sync to Host function, which will follow the tempo of your DAW or the VM standalone app.
Pitch Converter, which takes a 1V/octave signal and converts it to a delay value corresponding to the period of an oscillator at that pitch. This allows you to create ringing resonators, tuned comb filters, and even venture into the world of physical modelling. The latter includes the Karplus-Strong string algorithm and waveguide synthesis.
The Time Stream Integrator!
This device delivers a precisely shaped modulation ramp to the Zeit Module to create Doppler-based pitch shifting and even reverse playback. You can use it with one Zeit in order to achieve authentic 'early digital' glitchiness. Alternatively, you can run two Zeits in parallel, and let the TSI crossfade between their outputs. This is timed precisely to cover up discontinuities in audio that happen when the 'playback head runs out of tape loop'.The name? Well, "Zeit" is the German word for "Time", and it's also the name of an album by my fave band, Tangerine Dream. The album itself was released in August 1972, hence 'Year 50'. The eclipse image and the Plejades cluster on the front panel(s), the use of Data70 font, and the lower-case 'z' in "zeit" are also tributes to the album.
As always with DMT products, there is a 28 day demo period and the introductory price is just $4.20. It comes with a preset pack to demonstrate its main capabilities. There is a short (and slightly disturbing) intro video on YouTube. I'll be making more down-to-Earth tutorial-style videos as time/zeit permits.
