RESON80R

Experimental harmonic resonator for guitar

Eight resonators ring at the harmonics of a note you choose. Sweep the timbre control from odd harmonics only to the full harmonic series, and turn your guitar into the excitation source for a tuned instrument.

[ TRY THE DEMO ] [ HARDWARE AUDIO ] [ DEV LOG ] [ GET NOTIFIED ]

C:\JWA> RUN HARMONICS.EXE

ROOT: A2
ROOT FREQ: 110.00 Hz
EVEN HARM.: 0%

RESONATOR ROOT

The note the eight resonators are tuned to.

TIMBRE

Odd onlyAll harmonics

AIR

PureBreathy

PLAYED NOTE

What you play into the resonators. Independent of the root.

PLAYED OCTAVE

CHORD

Play a single note, or a strummed chord built on the played note.

MIX

DryResonators

DRIVE

CleanDestroyed

DISTORTION

Soft is smooth saturation, fuzz is lopsided and spitty, fold bends the wave back on itself.

SOUND

AUDIO OFF. PRESS PLUCK.

The sound is a software demonstration in your browser: a plucked note or chord, standing in for your guitar, feeds eight tuned feedback resonators. Triangles under the bars mark harmonics of the root that your played notes land on. Hold sustains the chord until you release it or pluck a new one. Drive and distortion type are demo extras, not final specifications. The finished pedal will sound different. Turn your volume down first.

C:\JWA> PLAY /HARDWARE

Recordings of the physical RESON80R prototype, kept apart from the browser simulation above. Where a take has a dry version, A/B flips between them in sync.

C:\JWA> SPEC /PRELIMINARY

RESONATORS: Eight, tuned to harmonics 1x through 8x of the selected note.
NOTE: Twelve chromatic steps.
MIX: Continuous, from dry to fully wet.
TIMBRE: Odd harmonics only (1x, 3x, 5x, 7x), blending toward all harmonics as the even ones (2x, 4x, 6x, 8x) fade in.
SATURATION: Soft clipping inside the resonator feedback and at the output.
FORMAT: Digital guitar pedal, mono signal path.

Specifications are preliminary and may change before release.

C:\JWA> NOTIFY

C:\JWA> COMMAND LINE

C:\JWA>