eels

eels

dual delay / comb filter with a variety of i/o modes and modulation options.

an undersea cousin of wrms.

hardware

required

  • norns (220321 or later)

also supported

install

install from the maiden catalog (gimme a minutte here i am doing all the things! )

or

in the maiden REPL, type:

;install https://github.com/andr-ew/eels/releases/download/latest/complete-source-code.zip

documentation

read here

thx

  • @dan_derks + @sixolet for the lfo lib. really handy to have just been able to drop that in as a flexible modulation source !
  • @DuellingAnts for bugtestin
  • moray eels, for being amazing
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this whole thing is so praiseworthy i’ll first admit…
i’ve lazily had a tab open to the beta and been hunting for time to grok what it does & what sets it apart from (your) other norns apps

the release vid is PERFECT for my learning style and quickly made clear what i wanted to know!

i’m most excited to try as a comb filter (shown in preset demo 4 “strings”) but i’m surprised by how unique the midi modulation from external sources sounds (also seen in demo 6 “thin ice skating”)

thank you for opening this up to everyone and completing simple but effective docs
i know it’s not easy!

edit: now i’m cracking up cause the open tabs were actually for ndls and eggs :joy: you really have an incredible array of great apps in dev!

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what a gorgeous video! i can’t wait to try the script.

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a lovely script i will be (/ have been) using a lot. really handy video too !

congrats on the release :slight_smile:

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Thank you very much for sharing this!

I love how it can go from very quiet and subtle to total mayhem in an instant - and this in a precise and controlled manner. Brillant!

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dream delay lovely :balloon:

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tysm all for the kind words !

here is eels imitating some space-faring birds from the crow bug testing session yesterday

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lot of fun experimenting with this script a couple of things I noticed in the params, in the time section it goes “time a” and then “time a” again

i think maybe the second one is supposed to say “time b” to match the patterns of the other adjustable parameters in here?

also to confirm please setting the LFO state in the params is like a hard kill. the LFOs will no longer go even if theres minimal depth setting

thank you for sharing this again. awesome all around

ah yes, it is supposed to say time b for the second one (and indeed it should control the second eel’s time). thx for pointing this out ! shall fix with the next update to minimize confusion :hole:

yep. just a lil feature that the lfo lib brought with it – not super useful within eels

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What about using matrix as a library instead of lfo lib?? :heart_eyes:

wonderful sounding! can’t wait to give both this and rpls a try! great work!

PS very happy to see the old walnut monome gear in the spotlight like this <3

wait… is that a varibright walnut 128!? how!

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Good fun. I should learn more about eels actually.


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With two crow inputs the screen and UI started lagging, and then norns became unresponsive. The log scrolls too fast by to copy paste from, maybe this screenshot is meaningful. I didn’t change a lot of parameters, maybe time was at 0.00 or 0.01, both eels in delay mode, and crow input into time.

lovely snip ! !

one of my favorite parts of making this project was watching videos of moray eels for the graphics : ) (which led me down the whole migration / mating mystery rabbit hole (not really a mystery anymore apparently (?)))

@DuellingAnts made me aware of this exact bug on the late beta version, which I thought i had fixed by lowering my polling rate. are you on bleeding edge v1.0 ? ah, apparently if the eel visuals are there it’s 1.0

there could be some kind of edge case going on – I haven’t had this happen to me on eels since releasing 1.0 but did experience some funny buisiness on another script with similar crowcode.

shall keep an eye out ~ I think I’ve also seen that error, but forget what my conclusion was if any.

had the exact same issue with crow and eels a couple of weeks ago actually. i also thought it was fixed based on previous checks. this time my norns didn’t completely freeze, but it started hanging/being unresponsive in a way that i had to quit the script

it feels to me like eels and rpls are always being updated, is this actually the case or is this some kinda bug inside maiden/matron?

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I haved this for eels, not rpls, and just noticed the installation link in the OP :top: points to latest release zip file at https://github.com/andr-ew/eels/releases/download/latest/complete-source-code.zip, not the repo https://github.com/andr-ew/eels/ as norns scripts usually do. Same for rpls.

Both are legit, but in the latter case Maiden won’t know from git if things have really changed.

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