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Timedream

Time Recursion Shaper

Part of Studies

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The original plugin with its own interface, as a one-time purchase.

 See the standalone interface

Description

Timedream is a time recursion shaper for taking your recordings into the time sequence of dreams. It runs your sound through a waveshaping fuzz and then a delay whose time is bent by a slow LFO.

It goes from slow, evolving choruses to springy, glitchy pitch-shifting. Set the delay short for a fuzz flanger or a modulated ensemble, or longer for a simple modulated echo. The fuzz sits on the front end, so you can roughen things up before they enter the dream sequence.

Timedream in the Handbook

Signal path

Your input goes through FUZZ into the delay. The LFO pulls the delay time shorter and back, and ECHO adds the delayed copy to the fuzzed signal. BLEND brings in your dry sound at the end.

  1. Fuzz mix

    FUZZ
    Fades from your clean input to a waveshaping distortion, before the delay. At zero the delay hears your clean input.

  2. Modulation LFO

    ENERGY
    Sets the speed of the LFO, from 0.001 Hz to 1 Hz.
    DREAM
    Sets how far the LFO pulls the delay time, up to 30% shorter. Low settings give a gentle chorus drift, and high settings bend the pitch hard.
    SHAPE
    Picks the LFO's waveform. Below halfway it's SMOOTH, a sine. Above halfway it's SHARP, a square with softened edges, which jumps between two delay times for a stepped, glitchy pitch effect.

  3. Modulated delay

    TIME
    Sets the delay time, from a tiny fraction of a millisecond, where it flanges and choruses, up to one second.

  4. Echo sum

    ECHO
    Sets the level of the delayed copy that's added back to the fuzzed signal. At zero you hear only the fuzz stage.

  5. Master

    BLEND
    Sets the mix between your dry input and the processed sound.
    GAIN
    Sets the output level, from silent up to double. Noon is unity.

Try thisFor a fuzz flanger, turn TIME almost all the way down, raise FUZZ and ECHO, and let a slow ENERGY with a moderate DREAM sweep it.

Demo
This video shows the standalone plugin.
Good to know

In Studies

Timedream is in Studies Effects, under Pitch & Time.

Standalone

The standalone plugin, shown further down the page, picks the LFO waveform with a SMOOTH / SHARP button and has no output level. In Studies the button is the SHAPE knob, and we added GAIN.

Bundle

The standalone plugin is also part of the Space Kit bundle.

Formats
Studies: Audio Units, VST2 and VST3 on Mac, VST3 on Windows · Apple silicon native
Systems
Current macOS and Windows 10/11 x64
Timedream | Time Recursion Shaper

Standalone version

The original plugin with its own interface, as a one-time purchase.

AU · VST2 · VST3 · macOS · Windows