Red Hot Vector Box

Multi-Band Sequencer/Synthesizer

The Red Hot Vector Box is a creative sound generator that intelligently attenuates a base audio signal into multiple frequency bands that in conjunction sequence rhythms with separate audio qualities. Essentially a base audio signal is filtered into four independent frequency ranges that percolate sound into percussions according to corresponding event tables and two global modulation values. An additional fifth band is also sequenceable which does not pass through the rhythm generator (nice for atmospheric and bass). Input audio as the source, or in addition it houses a full spectrum of sound with an onboard sampler, triple pulse-synth, and dual multi-synth.

Effects include a multi phase delay (sweet for dub), chorus (enhances the tone to be percolated), ring modulation (additional tone modifications), and "the magic fx" (modeled from Limelight) which has fm effects and noise generation features. An additional swing, sway, and reverse is added to the time measure, as well as the ability to manually change the bpm or switch from 2x, 3x, 4x, 8x, 16x.

The result is often an organic sound of morphing frequencies, represented by a collage of independently moving bands in percussion, overpowered by a resonating rhythm that is scattered and vibrant, yet ironically musical. The events, sequences, and underlining patterns that drive the musical algorithms can easily be generated and modified during runtime, offering a large venue for live creative control.

The RHVB is an electronic instrument created in Native Instrument's Reaktor. Reaktor is a patch based programming environment that allows you to visually construct advanced sound machines that can be used as VST plug-ins for music production.

The original concept is based on the "Vierring", by Mike Daliot. (snapshot)

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