vimsynth/modules/bend

modules/processors/BEND

BEND

A circuit bender: it CORRUPTS the incoming sound the way bridging two traces on a cheap digital toy does. bend XORs bits out of the signal's own magnitude — the high bits go first, so it grows from a dither hiss into an aliased scream — and wire chooses WHICH bits, the way each pair of bridged traces is its own sound. glitch trips chaotic events: freezes (a sample stuck like a starved clock), dropouts (dead spots), and stutters (playback caught in a short loop). Where CRUSH is tidy and predictable, this is feral. It stays anchored at zero, so silence in is silence out — patch it as an insert, bend cv to automate the descent, mix to hold onto the dry.

The BEND card as vimsynth draws it: its title bar, 4 knobs, 2 inputs down the left edge and 1 outputs down the right
BEND on an empty rack — 32×12 cells, knobs at their defaults. Press a in the app and pick BEND to get this card.

inputs

Down the left edge of the card, top to bottom.

inaudio
The signal to bend.
bend cvcv
Adds to the bend knob, so you can automate how hard it corrupts — sweep it with an LFO or an envelope to make the chaos come and go.

outputs

Down the right edge, in the same order.

outaudio
The bent signal — scrambled, frozen, dropped and stuttered.

knobs

Left to right across the face — the dials in the picture.

bend0 … 1= 0.4
How deep the bit-scrambling reaches. 0 is clean; low is a buzzy edge; high tears the top bits out and screams.
glitch0 … 1= 0.25
How often (and how long) glitches fire — freezes, dropouts, and stutter-loops. 0 is none; high is a constant mess.
wire0 … 15= 5
Which of 16 bit patterns the corruption uses — the 'wiring.' Each is its own character; step through to find the one you want.
mix0 … 1= 1
Dry/wet. Hold onto some of the clean signal, or go fully bent.

more

The full reference — every parameter curve, the patching notes and the worked examples — lives in the manual: docs.vimsynth.com/modules/bend. In the app itself, :help BEND opens the same page without leaving the rack.