How It Works
Technical view
The current bell-family wet path mixes in a separately triggered metallic phrase built from one FM-like oscillator stack plus a fixed high partial, then crossfades that bell layer with the dry stereo preview source through `mix` and `blend`. In the current implementation the top-level `color` and `motion` sliders are not wired into the wet path; the bell notes use fixed per-note tone values instead. The result then passes through the shared DC-blocking, output-gain, and soft-limiting stage.
- Resonator, Synth & Experimental
- waveshaping / saturation
- delay processing
- oscillator / LFO modulation
- DC blocking
Signal Path
Compiled preview chain
Preview source: An internally generated picked-string phrase is widened to stereo with a 19-sample right-channel delay. The wet side is a separately synthesized metallic phrase rather than a live struck-resonator analysis path.
- 1internal picked-string demo phrase
- 2stereo spread with a short right-channel delay
- 3separately synthesized metallic bell phrase
- 4fixed per-note bell tone shaping
- 5dry / bell crossfade
- 6DC blocker
- 7output gain trim
- 8final tanh limiter
Preview source
An internally generated picked-string phrase is widened to stereo with a 19-sample right-channel delay. The wet side is a separately synthesized metallic phrase rather than a live struck-resonator analysis path.
Effect core
Self-triggered metallic bell phrase crossfaded against the dry preview phrase.
Signal path
The static waveform and the live player both reflect this compiled signal chain.
- internal picked-string demo phrase
- stereo spread with a short right-channel delay
- separately synthesized metallic bell phrase
- fixed per-note bell tone shaping
- dry / bell crossfade
- DC blocker
- output gain trim
- final tanh limiter
Controls that matter
These are the currently active controls detected in the FAUST source for this effect.
- mix: Crossfades the dry stereo preview source toward the current wet layer.
- output_gain_db: Applies final post-effect level trim after DC blocking and before the output limiter.
- color: Declared in the shared control set but unused in the current preview code.
- motion: Declared in the shared control set but unused in the current preview code.
- blend: Scales the level of the metallic bell phrase inside the wet path before it is crossfaded with the dry source.
Code-backed analysis
The generated description is tied to the active helper blocks and routing found in the current DSP.
- demo
- fx
- outputStage
- leftDemo
- rightDemo
- channelFx
- phraseMono
- previewShiftSamples
Controls
Audible controls in this DSP
Crossfades the dry stereo preview source toward the current wet layer.
Higher settings put more of the synthesized or resonant effect layer in front of the dry phrase.
Applies final post-effect level trim after DC blocking and before the output limiter.
Matches loudness without changing the underlying effect structure.
Declared in the shared control set but unused in the current preview code.
Changing it currently has no effect on the sound.
Declared in the shared control set but unused in the current preview code.
Changing it currently has no effect on the sound.
Scales the level of the metallic bell phrase inside the wet path before it is crossfaded with the dry source.
Higher settings make the clang-like layer more forward.
Analysis
Code-derived notes
Current implementation shares the same metallic bell architecture with Additive Bell. The top-level color and motion sliders are not wired into the wet path.
Active blocks
- demo
- fx
- outputStage
- leftDemo
- rightDemo
- channelFx
- phraseMono
- previewShiftSamples
- leadPad
- pickedVoice
- synthMono
- maxDelaySamples
- fund
- pickEnv
- ampEnv
- triggerAt
- bellVoice
Inactive helpers
- synthVoice
- organVoice
- softsat
- quantize
- combLP
- echoOnly
- diffuser
Warnings
No current warnings are attached to this effect.
Source
- library/resonator-synth-experimental/fm-clang.dsp
- Output stage: DC blocker -> output gain trim -> final tanh limiter
- Library position: 242