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Live Guitar Backwards

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The Live Guitar Backwards board in the WaveWarp DrawingBoard
Live Guitar Backwards — the board as it opens in the WaveWarp DrawingBoard.

What it does

Live Guitar Backwards

Demonstrates the use of WaveWarp's live input functionality. Plug an electric guitar (or any other audio source!) into the "input" of your soundcard and hit "Play". You will experience the bizarre (and fun!) effect created by the Flipper which reverses the audio (buffer-by-buffer). For plucked guitar notes, this effect can lead to very interesting effects (e.g. making the guitar sound like bagpipes, etc). By adjusting the reverse buffer lengths to be slightly different for each channel, the stereo space is greatly enhanced.

Experiment with all settings and with different input sources (especially live vocals)!

Effects used

4 blocks 4 connections
In WaveWarp, 1998

How the original documented it

Live Guitar Backwards Demonstrates the use of WaveWarp's live input functionality. Plug an electric guitar (or any other audio source!) into the "input" of your soundcard and hit "Play". You will experience the bizarre (and fun!) effect created by the Flipper which reverses the audio (buffer-by-buffer). For plucked guitar notes, this effect can lead to very interesting effects (e.g. making the guitar sound like bagpipes, etc). By adjusting the reverse buffer lengths to be slightly different for each channel, the stereo space is greatly enhanced. Experiment with all settings and with different input sources (especially live vocals)!

Components used (1998)

Output Stereo WAVE DriverZipperInput Single-Mono WAVE DriverFlipper