My New Ambient Setup : Parallel Big Echoes (self-written in Lua Protoplug)

I was invited to provide an ambient soundtrack to an event the other week. And I wanted to add some long delay / looping piano chords and motifs.
Thinking about the parallel echo I developed in • Free Inspirations #1 :... I remembered that I really wanted a version with a longer delay time.
So I opened up Protoplug and found it was easy enough to extend the delay line example that came with it, to about 30 seconds.
In this video I walk you through that code, show how it fits into the parallel delay Patcher patch. And finish with some random piano echoes.
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[@JellyMonster1]

I liked that in and out effect of the piano from 23:00 onward; quite melancholy.

[@synaesmedia]

You mean the glitch from tweaking the delay length? Which then gets captured and repeated? Yeah, that's interesting. In some ways it would be nice to eliminate it. But actually I don't know how. And even "professional" delays (at least the delay3 in FL Studio) have some amazing glitch effects when you mess with the delay while they are running. I think we have to assume that this is "character". And, yeah, can add some nice textures. As I deliberately do with the delay3 at about 30:00)

[@zero111zero]

This is really quite interesting, great work. How tough would this be to set up on my own system? Would love to explore it

[@synaesmedia]

It shouldn't be very hard. If you know how to install a VST plugin, you can install Protoplug. Get it : www.osar.fr/protoplug/ I have a series on using it here : kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJzKinWlnraDm80 But basically you open it like any other VST, except there's a whole programming language environment inside it. My code for the long delay is here : gist.github.com/interstar/7cc4b8cb99dcd2bccffca21a4d2459ef So you can just copy and paste that into the Protoplug window and press compile. If you have the right version of FL Studio you have Patcher too. So you can assemble Protoplug within any larger patcher collection of plugins (eg. filters, reverbs etc) you like. The secret of the "Parallel delay" is just to make a second patcher, that has two copies of the first patcher in it, in parallel, and set them to different delay times, so they phase against each other. Or make something MORE complex if you want to hear how that turns out :-) Good luck. Have fun!