Here’s a surprise, an evidently spontaneous drop from Ableton co-founder Robert Henke in Max for Live. Filter Delays provides three filtered stereo delays with some very clever twists; it’s a free download for Ableton Live Suite 12+ users.
Robert says he developed this for his own work, but it’s a free-as-in-beer download for the rest of us. And it’s got some really smart touches in there, including highlights like:
- a time multiplier across all three delays (and global time shift)
- panned inputs
- feedback routing options: individual, summed, etc.
- channel swap
Here’s a bit of what it can sound like, with a spontaneous patch in the new Waldorf Attack drum machine:
Download, with the usual detailed documentation and notes:
https://www.roberthenke.com/technology/filterdelays.html
Opening it up reveals an elegant, economical design. It’s actually a great demonstration that while the lower-level gen~ environment may sound scary, it can actually take less work to express something in gen~ than with the usual patches. (I do still wish Pd had something like gen~ in it!)
Enjoy! And if this inspires you to get back to patching, as well — I sure felt that way — you might consider if CDM’s guide on the topic is helpful: