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Contraptions Guide
This section includes Help Files for each of AudioMulch's contraptions. Below is a comprehensive list of the contraptions, grouped by category, and a brief explanation of what each contraption does. To find out more information about any contraption, click on the links in the list.
Note: To directly access a contraption's Help File page while using the program, click on the ? button on the title bar of the contraption's Property Editor.
Input/Output
- *FilePlayer
- Plays one or more multichannel sound files with multitrack synchronization.
- *FileRecorder
- Records one or more multichannel sound files with multitrack synchronization.
- SoundIn
- Inputs live sound from the audio interface or plays a sound file.
- SoundOut
- Outputs sound to the audio interface. Optionally, records sound to a file.
- AuxIn / AuxOut
- Additional live audio interface inputs and outputs for multichannel and surround sound.
- MidiIn / MidiOut
- Inputs or outputs live MIDI to or from a MIDI interface or other software application. (For use with VST and Audio Unit plugins).
- FilePlayer
- Plays a stereo sound file.
- FileRecorder
- Records a stereo sound file.
Signal Generators
- Arpeggiator
- A synthesizer and tone generator that plays arpeggios.
- Bassline
- Synthesizes and sequences a melody or chops up and filters a sound input.
- LoopPlayer
- Plays a looped sound file synchronized to the beat or stretches a loop for pitch and time distortion effects.
- Drums
- Plays back samples sequenced in repetitive patterns, sometimes used as a drum machine.
- BubbleBlower
- Randomly chops up and scrambles sound files to create fractured or smooth textures (granular synthesis).
- RissetTones
- Synthesizes a continuously ascending or descending tone.
- 10Harmonics
- Synthesizes a harmonic tone by controlling the amplitude of the first 10 harmonics (additive synthesis).
- TestGen
- Generates tones: a sine wave or noise.
Effects
- PulseComb
- Creates a pulse-like chopping of sound input and a pitch-shifting effect.
- DLGranulator
- Randomly chops up and scrambles live sound to create fractured or smooth textures (granular synthesis).
- SDelay
- Applies stereo delays, repetitive echo and stereo ping-pong effects.
- CanonLooper
- Captures sound and loops it in multiple layers to create musical canons (rounds).
- LiveLooper
- Captures and controls up to 16 tracks of looping sound.
- DigiGrunge
- Applies digital distortion effects (bit depth reduction, sample rate decimation).
- Shaper
- Adds distortion with direct control over distortion harmonics (Chebychev waveshaping).
- SSpat
- Creates the illusion of sound moving in space in looped paths using panning and doppler shift.
- NastyReverb
- A digital reverb effect.
- Flanger
- Creates a sweeping, whooshing filter effect with a metallic, ringing sound.
- Phaser
- Creates a sweeping, whooshing filter effect with a hollow, resonant sound.
- FrequencyShifter
- Shifts harmonics to create metallic sounds, or sweeping phaser-like effects when used with subtle settings and feedback.
- RingAM
- Adds shifted frequencies, and can produce metallic sounds (ring and amplitude modulation).
- SChorus
- Creates a sweeping, detuned thickening and stereo-widening chorus effect.
Filters
- Nebuliser
- Randomly chops up and scrambles live sound with random filtering to create watery sounds (filtered granular synthesis).
- SouthPole
- Applies resonant filtering and amplitude-chopping effects controlled by rhythmic patterns or sound input (envelope following and pattern controlled ADSR filtering and amplitude gating).
- RissetFilters
- Applies continuously ascending or descending sweeping bandpass filters - a filtering version of RissetTones.
- *ParaEQ
- Equalizer filter boosts or cuts certain frequencies (parametric with high and low shelf, and two sweepable mid bands). (M=Mono, S=Stereo).
- 5Combs
- Filters sounds through tuned comb filters that sound like resonating strings.
Dynamics
- *Limiter
- Limits the peak level of a sound to avoid harsh clipping distortion.
- *Compressor
- Controls the level of a sound to reduce dynamic range or shape transients.
- *NoiseGate
- Allows loud sounds to pass while suppressing quiet ones (or vice-versa).
Mixers
- Matrix
- Switches and combines different input channels to different outputs.
- Crossfader
- Smoothly mixes and fades from one stereo input to another.
- Frosscader
- Smoothly fades a stereo input between two different stereo outputs.
- Invert
- Inverts the polarity of an audio input (useful for stereo wide illusion and other tricks).
- *Gain
- Volume control knob for one or more channels (M=Mono (1), S=Stereo (2), Q=Quad (4), O=Oct (8)).
- M*Mixer
- Mono mixers with volume control for each input.
- P*Mixer
- Stereo mixers with mono inputs and a pan control for each input.
- S*Mixer
- Stereo mixers with volume control for each stereo input pair.
Buses
- M*Bus
- Mixes mono signals without volume control. Useful as a patch-point for complex patches. (Provided for backward compatibility).
- S*Bus
- Mixes stereo signals without volume control. Useful as a patch-point for complex patches. (Provided for backward compatibility).
Plugins
As well as its own contraptions, AudioMulch supports the industry standard VST (Virtual Studio Technology) and VSTi (also known as VST2) plugin formats, and on Macintosh, Apple's Audio Unit plugin format. This gives you access to a large number of third-party effects and instruments to expand AudioMulch.
- VST Plugins
- Third-party plugins you install on your computer to provide additional effects and instruments.
- Audio Unit Plugins (Macintosh only)
- Third-party plugins you install on your computer to provide additional effects and instruments.
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