Metronomica.blog
jamuary 3, 2025
In my post yesterday I wrote about wanting to learn Rymdigare, an iOS app that combines a bunch of effects — a reverb, a filter, a waveshaper, a pitch shifter, a tool that crushes sound but calls itself a radio — into a combination reverb/drone/destruction tool. It’s an instrument unto itself, and it presents itself beautifully:
Rymdigare
It’s also pretty esoteric, which makes it hard to really learn, especially in just an hour or two. The individual modules mostly make sense, but the interactions between them can take a while to untangle.
Today I fed a drone into Rymdigare, and played the effect:
As soon as I uploaded that track, I went back into the app and immediately got something more legible out of the weird Radio control, a shifting, lilting soundscape that sounded like I had plonked a VCA on the master bus. Maybe I’ll explore that more tomorrow. This track, above, smells like someone desperately moving faders to figure out how to get somewhere.
I’m happy with it, though, especially the extremely loud middle section where the sustained, brutal drone overwhelms my ears and pulls some emotion out of me. There is a lot of noise in there and it’s unrelenting in a somewhat beautiful way.
I’ve learned the basics of Rymdigare today. I’ve learned what the modules do, more or less (Radio! what are you doing!), and how to use the cool Orbit modulations to move some faders and knobs on their own. I’ve learned that this tool might be tough to wrangle, but it can absolutely annihilate sounds in a really fun and unique way.
Over the course of this month, I’d like to figure out how to actually wrangle this thing, at least as much as it’ll let me. It has so much personality, and I expect will be a really useful tool.
// tags: making music jamuary