Dechohere

 

Dechohere is a deep granular audio effect for Max for Live, built for turning sound into something fluid, unstable, musical, and alive.

Feed it live audio, drop in a sample, freeze a performance, or build an eight-slot splice reel. Dechohere breaks the source into grains and lets you stretch, scatter, reverse, harmonize, blur, orbit, and reshape them in real time.

 

At its center is a performance system inspired by black holes, gravity, and sound crossing an event horizon. Save four complete device states to A, B, C, and D, then move smoothly between them with the Gravity control. Orbit can animate that movement automatically, while Horizon captures the active grain field and turns it into playable frozen matter.

 

Three playback engines give the device very different identities:

 

- Time Stretch changes timing while preserving pitch.

- Varispeed couples speed and pitch like tape.

- Frippertronics layers live input into fading, darkening repeats.

 

The grain engine ranges from isolated particles to long, overlapping clouds and audio-rate glitch. Blur, Diffusion, four grain envelopes, stereo Field, and Field Motion help separate grains fuse into a cohesive moving atmosphere.

Dechohere is also designed to remain musical. Grain pitch and Varispeed can follow the Ableton Live session scale. The Harmony engine quantizes every new harmony grain to that scale, while Constellation creates repeatable or evolving scale-safe melodic phrases.

For longer performances and sound design sessions, the Reel system holds up to eight imported or recorded pieces of audio. Record clean input or the processed Dechohere output, choose forward, reverse, or mixed playback, then manually morph or automatically travel across the occupied reels.

Dechohere can be subtle, beautiful, broken, rhythmic, or immense. It is equally at home creating ambient beds, ghost harmonies, frozen vocals, evolving drones, tape loops, rhythmic fragments, and alien granular movement.

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- Four sound sources: Live Input, Sample, Capture, and Reel

- Drag-and-drop sample loading plus traditional file loading

- Live waveform, source position, and playback feedback

- Three engines: pitch-preserving Time Stretch, tape-style Varispeed, and Frippertronics

- Grain sizes from tiny particles to long overlapping clouds

- Free-running or Ableton Live session-synced grain triggering

- Forward, reverse, mixed, ping-pong, and randomized grain motion

- Position scanning, Spray, Direction, and deep frozen-take speed control

- Session-scale grain pitch and Varispeed quantization

- Scale-safe Harmony with source tracking, session-root anchoring, and chord-tone targeting

- Constellation phrase generator with clock division, length, range, variation, lock, and reseeding

- Four complete A-D device states saved with the Live Set

- Gravity morphing for smooth movement across A-D states

- Orbit automation with loop or pendulum paths, cycle length, and dwell control

- Event Horizon grain-field capture and playable freezing

- Accretion and Tidal controls for movement inside the frozen field

- Blur and Diffusion for cohesive, smeared clouds

- Soft, Sustain, Pluck, and Swell grain envelopes

- Stereo Field Width and Field Motion

- Long-grain level compensation for fuller clouds

- Eight-slot splice reel for loaded samples or live recordings

- Manual and automatic reel morphing from 2 to 512 bars

- Forward, reverse, or mixed reel playback

- Record clean input or the full processed effect into a reel

- Optional reel fitting to the selected session loop length

- 30, 60, or 120-second reel capture limits

- Single-slot or continuous reel capture

- User-selectable reel save location

- Eco, Standard, and High quality modes

- Input, grain, and output metering

- Custom compact interface with a larger tabbed performance edito

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