The Reichbox, an Audio Effect Rack inspired by Steve Reich

oevboev · Post by **oevboev** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:20 pm

Hi All,

I'd like to share with you a rack I made, the Reichbox.
Download here:
http://nwrecords.com/storage/racks/host ... Jepsen.adg

This rack enables you to make phase patterns/phase music in the style of one of the grandfathers of electronic music, Steve Reich. You can use it with any audio source.

Steve Reich invented the concept of phase music by playing the same loop on two tapemachines simultaneously - the machines would gradually start to play out of sync and make his signature phasing effect. He explains it here, at 3:13: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q0DQRfm0u ... re=related

The rack I've made consists of an auto filter, a filter delay and a saturator.

By slamming the second macro control('delay filter') all the way to 127 you will get an instant Reichian loop that will continue to change your audio source to the end of time - or until you switch it off.

The 'tape noise'(saturator) parameter is just there to add some optional grit to the sound.

I hope some of you will find it fun or useful!
Any feedback on the rack would be greatly appreciated!

I'd like to thank friend_kami for offering upload space, cheers dude!

Andreas

Patch · Post by **Patch** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:10 pm

Sounds cool - look forward to trying it out.

belmiro · Post by **belmiro** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:22 pm

Link don't work dude

forge · Post by **forge** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:30 pm

nice idea!

thanks

I like having the filter control on a separate macro

thanks for the youtube link too - I'm now watching part 3

BTW downloadhelper is a cool plug-in for firefox for downloading youtube videos

forge · Post by **forge** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:17 pm

this is nice

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FkQADgfvl ... re=related

logic_user99 · Post by **logic_user99** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:47 pm

@ forge - You can DOWNLOAD YouTube vids?! I need me some of that.

@ oevboev - The rack looks ace, dude. Seems like something that I could be using for live performance for a while to come! Will give it a full test-drive when I get home from work...

friend_kami · Post by **friend_kami** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:17 pm

belmiro wrote:Link don't work dude

the rack link or the youtube link?
rack link should work, atleast it does here, and ive doublechecked on my server.

shlomo · Post by **shlomo** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:35 pm

Works nice

Thnx for this.
How do you change the timing of phase change, by decreasing the delay value or?

oevboev · Post by **oevboev** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:08 pm

shlomo wrote:Works nice

Thnx for this.
How do you change the timing of phase change, by decreasing the delay value or?

'The max delay value for the filter delay is 999ms, and I've set the 3 delays for 999, 995 and 991 ms. For more drastic effects you could lower some of them. Let me/us know if you find a cool new settings for the parameters!

About downloading from youtube - there's a lot of different options outthere but I can recommend a program called Miro. http://www.getmiro.com/
It also works as a torrentdownloader and a whole lot more. Highly recommended.

Maninkari · Post by **Maninkari** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:31 pm

excellent, thank you for sharing!

forge · Post by **forge** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:04 am

logic_user99 wrote:@ forge - You can DOWNLOAD YouTube vids?! I need me some of that.
.

if you use firefox there are heaps of addons - the one I use most is 'downloadhelper' - it puts a little icon next to the URL address field which starts spinning if there is something on the page that can be downloaded, then you just press it and download it

oevboev · Post by **oevboev** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:00 am

thank for your feedback so far, it makes me really glad that you like the rack.
If you're a phase nerd like me I imagine you'll like this video of a guy doing the impossible - playing Steve Reich's 'piano phase' on two pianos at once.

He can't possibly be a normal person. I even doubt he is a person, think he's a machine on the inside

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qKXy1FPTd ... re=related

friend_kami · Post by **friend_kami** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:57 pm

oevboev wrote:thank for your feedback so far, it makes me really glad that you like the rack.
If you're a phase nerd like me I imagine you'll like this video of a guy doing the impossible - playing Steve Reich's 'piano phase' on two pianos at once.

He can't possibly be a normal person. I even doubt he is a person, think he's a machine on the inside
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qKXy1FPTd ... re=related

what the ...

thats.. wow.

oevboev · Post by **oevboev** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:20 pm

i know, dude, I know.....
I always go

when I see it

bray · Post by **bray** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:12 pm

HI
I know this is an old post, but is this pack still around? The link is dead. I'd LOVE to have a go at it.

thanks for even making it available in the first place.

b

The Reichbox, an Audio Effect Rack inspired by Steve Reich

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