Toothbrush

A Vocoder of Sorts

by R. Luke DuBois.

Toothbrush takes an input soundfile and granulates it using the STEREO instrument, scanning through the soundfile asynchronously, so that you can create some weird stretched playback effects.


 Toothbrush's interface contains INPUTFILE and START buttons (to load a soundfile and start the thing running), a volume control, and sliders / text fields for grain frequency, inskip rate, amount of random panning, grain duration, and a set of sliders for loop start and loop end.

The numbers are a bit vague: suffice to say that most of them are expressed in percentage of the total length of the soundfile, so if you set loop_start to 50 and loop_end to 70 and you have a ten-second file, then toothbrush will cycle through seconds 5-7 in the soundfile.

There are keyboard accelerators for 'S'tart, 'I'nputfile, and 'Q'uit. If the thing hangs or starts jittering then stop it for a while and it will catch up to itself.

Usage:

toothbrush [srate]
Defaults to 22050 stereo.