Virtual Drone Lab

So the Virtual Drone Lab, I originally saw the original Drone Lab design on the Casper Electronics site a while ago and thought it was really cool. I thought about building one until I saw how much that many pots cost. Then I recently saw the Drone Lab 2and I’ve been messing around with pure data and thought I would make a kind of emulation of it. So here it is:

• 4 square wave oscillators
• 1 audio input track
• 4 tremolos with inversion and division based on the master clock’s square wave signal
• 1 two pole bandpass filter
• 1 distortion stage with feedback at high levels
• 2 two pole bandpass filters with adjustment for band width

This is a Pure Data patch, you need to install pure data to run it, you can download ithere. Ok so there are two versions of the file below. The -s version is standalone, meaning it has the adc running into the input and there is a dac inside the guts so the sound will go directly to your speakers. If you are new to PD the s version will get you going right away. The -m or modular version has inlets and outlets, so you can open it inside another patch and run the output from something else into it, or run its output into another patch easily.

Download: virtualDroneLab.zip

If you have suggestions about what to add to the patch or have problems with it leave a comment below.

So the new “ugly version” has the multiple canvases removed that appeared to be causing problems on windows.