Freeze, Delay and Deconstruct – Sound Design with Spectral Time
In his latest video, Seed to Stage explores the Spectral Time device introduced in Live 11, walking you through its many sonic possibilities to create a myriad of trippy sounds, from metallic, glitched-out stutters to washed-out ambience and head-flipping stereo effects.
Based on the fast Fourier transform (FFT), a mathematical algorithm which breaks audio signals down into its constituent frequencies, Spectral Time processes the ensuing partials through its powerful freeze and delay sections (which can be used independently or in combination), the results of which are visible via the built-in sonogram display.
Learn how Spectral Time’s freeze section captures and replays audio at a granular level, the delay can create wild, pitch-shifting percussion, and how the two sections work together to produce strange, ethereal, hauntological sounds.