Eventide Enters Eurorack World With EuroDDL Module AES New York

via Eventide

"LITTLE FERRY, NJ, USA: recording technology trailblazer Eventide is proud to release the EuroDDL — entering the ever-expanding Eurorack modular market with a 16HP digital delay (DDL) module made to sound less digital than the average delay while enabling external control of every feature and function — at AES New York 2017, October 18-20, Jacob J. Javits Convention Center, USA…

With the EuroDDL, Eventide’s old school design strictly limits the amount of digital circuitry to only what’s required for delay. Soft saturation clipping, LP (low pass) FILTER, FEEDBACK, insert loop, and +20 dB boost are all analog.

The digital section is minimal and constrained to do nothing more than simple, yet flexible, delay. The DDL itself is pristine. It’s long. It’s short (0.11msec resolution). It’s smooth, it loops, and it goes backwards (REVERSE). The delay converter is 24 bits with a maximum delay time of up to 10 seconds at 192 kHz sample rate and 160 seconds at 16 kHz sample rate. Delay time can be varied smoothly and over a wide range — either manually, via TAP (BPM) tempo, or by remote control voltage. Short delays can be used for comb filtering and flanging effects. Longer delays for echo effects. Infinite delays for looping. Backwards delays for reverse effects.

To be a true performance instrument, all the controls of the Eurorack module must be remote controllable. The EuroDDL does just that with jacks — clipping, KILL, REVERSE, FEEDBACK, MIX, and LP FILTER — to accept VC (voltage control) and T/G (trigger to gate). It’s designed to be played as an instrument... and it’s designed to ‘play nice’ in the rack with RETURN/SEND and CLK (clock) IN/OUT.

“There’s usually a modular this or that floating around at Eventide; we wanted to create a delay that can be played by musicians — musicians like our own resident experimental music artist Anthony Saunders,” says Eventide Director of Marketing Communications Nalia Sanchez. “Plus, we wanted it to sound, feel, and behave like an analog instrument by doing as much as possible with analog components. It adds cost, but makes a clear difference. There seems to be something that happens to sound when it’s operated on in quantized time. The EuroDDL module keeps whatever that ‘something’ is to a bare minimum.”

The EuroDDL design is derived from the Eventide DDL-500, the 500 Series delay module about which Tape Op’s Eli Crews wrote: “...it has a unique feel and sound, partly due to the fact that the only digital part of the audio path is the delay line itself.”

Eventide will be demonstrating the EuroDDL alongside award-winning plug-ins on Booth #321 at AES New York 2017 — the 143rd International Convention — on October 18-20, Jacob J. Javits Convention Center, USA.

Currently available in limited quantities, general availability of the EuroDDL is scheduled for January 2018 with an MSRP of $399.00 USD.

For more in-depth information, please visit the dedicated EuroDDL webpage here: https://www.eventideaudio.com/euroddl"

Be like the Edge: EuroDDL, Eventide's first eurorack module reviewed

Published on Jun 12, 2018 loopop

You can find previous posts featuring the EuroDDL here.

"In case (second pun in as many sentences) you're curious, the case in the video is by Through-U - https://www.through-u.com

Delay is one of the most popular audio effects, and understandably so. In this clip I review EuroDDL, as well as use its various CV interfaces to create a chorus/flange effects, a delayed harmonizer, apply a PWM-like effect to a synth that doesn't have that feature, loop drums and, since there's a built in filter, create percussive Karplus-Strong sounds.

While the concept of delay is simple – recording a snippet of sound and playing it back continuously, done at different delay times – delay can have a dramatic effect on your sound. Timed to the tempo of a song, delay can take a simple riff and turn it into a rich and dynamic soundscape, as shown repeatedly (if you don't mind the pun…) by U2's the Edge. Millisecond delay times can multiply your sound with a chorus or flange effect, and longer delays behave like a looper.

Eventide has a prolific effects history, and EuroDDL is their first Eurorack format module. EuroDDL's default sample rate is 192khz and can handle delay times anywhere from 0.11ms to 10 seconds at that rate. The sample rate can be adjusted in 16 steps down to a lo-fi 12khz, respectively bringing delay times up to 160 seconds.

Aside from "regular" delay, EuroDDL contains an analog low pass filter that can be applied to the feedback loop, a 20db drive toggle on the input, as well as reverse and infinite looping toggle buttons. Phase inversion is also available and can make a difference with millisecond long delay times.

True to Eurorack form, EuroDDL is ready, willing and able to accept and send CV. Five CV inputs let you modulate delay times, sample rate, feedback, dry/wet mix and the low pass filter cutoff. Additional configurable trigger or gate inputs let you use CV to toggle the infinite loop, reverse and "kill" features (the dramatically named "kill" feature keeps the dry and wet feeds going but doesn't send any new dry audio into the feedback loop). Tempo can be synced via a clock input, and sent out as well thru the clock output.

Finally, send and return jacks let you insert external effects into the feedback loop, as I show in the "delayed harmonizer" example.

To top it off, the onboard display is extremely useful in establishing timing, tempo and visualizing the impact of CV modulation. The module is fairly straightforward an a one-pager manual makes understanding the lay of the land quick and easy.

PROS: The combination of on-board controls, built in filter and openness to CV modulation makes EuroDDL capable of creating quite adventurous sounds, and a great Eurorack partner to bring delay to your system.
CONS: If it wasn't for Eventide's other work there probably wouldn't be a "cons" here… EuroDDL is a strong contender in the Eurorack delay market - but their other work leaves me wishing more of it was implemented here. EuroDDL is priced similarly to Eventide's own TimeFactor delay effect pedal – and while the latter isn't in the Eurorack format nor does it have any of the CV interfaces (though it does have an expression pedal input and MIDI controls), TimeFactor does have richer sound design options and the ability to store and recall presets."

New Free State FX 5U Format FSFX 114: Digital Delay Line

via Free State FX

"Free State FX is proud to announce our new module the Digital Delay Line. The module starts it's life as an Eventide euroDDL, then your friends at Free State FX convert it to our beloved 5u format.

The euroDDL is currently backordered from Eventide, but we expect to get our first batch of modules by the end of February. It will take us 1-2 weeks to perform the conversions after the euroDDL's arrive. We expect to have the 114's ready to ship by early March."

Karplus Strong Synthesis On Eurorack Modular

Published on Jul 17, 2018 Perfect Circuit Audio

"This is the first part of our series on physical modeling synthesis on a eurorack modular. Karplus-Strong and wave guide synthesis use short delay lines with feedback to create sounds from simple plucked string modeling to two and three dimensional models of drum heads and resonating and reverberating spaces.

Some of the short delay modules we used to make this video:

Doepfer A-188-1X https://www.perfectcircuitaudio.com/d...

Doepfer A-188-1Y https://www.perfectcircuitaudio.com/d...

Eventide EuroDDL https://www.perfectcircuitaudio.com/e..."

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Sequenced Jam #82 - Live Modular Synth Performance

Published on Jul 22, 2018 Rheyne

"Kick is from VCO A of a Make Noise DPO, and bass is from VCO B. The pad is from a Make Noise Morphagene, playing some sounds from my Rhodes. Arpeggios are from a pair of Instruo Ts-L. Hi-hats are from a Mutable Instruments Plaits. Delay is from an Eventide EuroDDL, and reverb is from a Strymon BigSky. Held together with a Winter Modular Eloquencer.

Performed in one take with no overdubs. View this rack on ModularGrid: https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/707500"

Sequenced Jam #79 - Live Modular Synth Performance

Published on May 22, 2018 Rheyne

"A live modular synth performance, recorded in one take with no overdubs. Percussion is from a Mutable Instruments Plaits, switching between the kick, snare, and hihat models. Bass is from a Noise Engineering LIP through a DSI DSM01 filter. Some chords from my Fender Rhodes are loaded into a Make Noise Morphagene. An Instruo Ts-L is modulated by the PWM algorithm of an Erica Synths Pico Voice, running through an Eventide EuroDDL. Reverb is from a Strymon BigSky."