A Klanghausen Flower

[Galen Elfert <guelfert@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

Just wanted to share a curiously beautiful instant, though it will no 
doubt be soon brushed away with a technical remark (not to discourage 
the scientific mind).

I was playing around in Pro Tools LE, feeding the impulse (once) 
through a simple delay plug-in. The feedback was set to 100%, and I had 
drawn about 15 seconds of continuous automation data for the delay 
length. Being a purely digital system I expected predictable (that is 
to say, repeatable) results. But no. Often I would hear nothing (odd?), 
or just a single impulse. Sometimes the impulse would make it through 
2, or 4, or 10 seconds of my automation maze before falling off the 
edge of the fluctuating buffer. (The farther it got, the more 
interesting the sound. Sometimes fidgeting tones, or pulsing 
white-noise). A few times it made it all the way to the end, and then 
cycled around in endless victory laps until I closed (opened?) the 
feedback.

The only thing I can think is that some inaudible remnant was left in 
the buffer each time. But that explanation really doesn't stand up to 
any scrutiny at all.

?

Galen (CalmSea)

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