I’ve been working away on Discord 2 recently–and not so recently, given how long it’s turning out to take. Sometimes our projects come together easily, and sometimes they fight me every step of the way. This one is falling on the latter end of the spectrum, but we’re finally in the home stretch now.
All of the features and tricky bits of DSP were sorted out in a VST version, but the AU version has been particularly problematic. I spent days beating my head against a series of very perplexing misbehaviors. Things were crashing in really odd ways for no readily apparent reason. I finally found the fundamental error late yesterday; it was, of course, a mistake that seemed terribly stupid in retrospect but eluded me for days. It’s always sort of an odd realization to find an answer like that. There’s joy and relief, of course, but also a bit of frustration with having spent so much time chasing wild geese that had nothing to do with the actual error. It creates a few moments of strange calmness, and then I fix the stupid thing and move forward with whatever it was I was trying to do in the first place.
All that aside, it’s turning out to be a rather fun plug-in. One of my goals was that it should be able to do the classic chorusing/doubling effect that people use Eventides for: shift one channel slightly up, shift the other slightly down, delay both by small but different amounts. This plug-in does it and it sounds wonderful. It also does a great job of the just-barely-there chorusing/enhancing effect of the Roland Dimension D, or at least as far as I’m able to judge based on Universal Audio’s version of the Roland. Of course it also does all of the fun stuff that Discord 1.5 did, as well as doing it in stereo with tempo-synched delays. It’s a hoot.
