THIRDEAR 1.3.3   auditory distortion product instrument   databurn

Windows, 64-bit. Two formats, pick the one your host loads:

  thirdear.clap   copy to  C:\Program Files\Common Files\CLAP\
  thirdear.vst3   copy to  C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\

Rescan plug-ins in the host. Presets you save land in
%APPDATA%\databurn\thirdear\presets\ as one file each.

Use headphones, at the lowest level at which the phantom is audible.
ThirdEar plays a comb of tones, and your own cochlea turns it into the
note you hear. To hear it straight away, pick one of the Tune presets
and hold a single key: the melody plays from that key. Under the note,
A/B switches between the note your ear makes and a real note from the
speaker, and CANCEL opens the bench where you cancel the phantom with a
tone of your own.

New in 1.3.3, fixes:
  Raising Partials during a note keeps the phantom at full strength.
  The added tones used to come in out of step: the phantom was up to
  10 dB weaker, and CANCEL could not null it until the next note.
  Chord plays combs in either Mode. In CDT a chord put its own notes
  into the signal as real tones.
  Switching Norm, changing Partials and adding a chord note no longer
  click under the phantom.
  The panel's meter no longer causes dropouts at high sample rates.

New in 1.3.2, fixes:
  The host's stop gestures (all notes off, choke) now stop ThirdEar
  with Chord or Pattern on; they did not. The Carrier and Ratio glide
  is the same in every host and at every buffer size, other parameter
  changes no longer restart it, and a knob turned while nothing plays
  no longer glides on the next note. Lighter on the audio thread with
  the panel closed.

New in 1.3.1:
  Norm has a third setting, loud, now the default: each note is set so
  its tones carry the same A-weighted power (a standard stand-in for
  loudness), so the two modes sit at one level across most of the
  keyboard; the lowest CDT notes are boosted by at most 6 dB. Level
  starts at -15 dB. The preset list scrolls.

New in 1.3.0:
  SPLIT sends every other tone of the comb to each ear. A distortion
  product needs its tones in one cochlea, so each ear now makes its own,
  an octave up in QDT, and none at all in CDT. Headphones only.
  CHORD plays every held key as its own phantom, up to four, tuned just
  or equal. Tuned just, the combs' cross products land on the chord's
  root; switch to equal and hear them scatter.
  COCHLEA, on the graph, shows the basilar membrane unrolled: where the
  tones are felt, where the product is made, and where it is heard.
  The tunes are now the Passion Chorale, Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 and
  Ave maris stella, and three After Amacher presets follow her
  documented technique.

thirdear-note.pdf is the working note with the model and the literature
it was checked against (document DB-WP-002).

https://databurn.org
