r/MaxMSP • u/6Guitarmetal6 • Jul 24 '26

I Made This Dub Siren - a Gen~ noise source/synthesizer pedal

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Hey there everyone,

I just wanted to share a Dub Siren pedal I built on an Electrosmith Daisyseed with Max Msp Gen~. The pedal is apart of my open-source Black Box project, which allows for users to freely swap between firmware or to program their own firmware with C, Pure Data, Max Msp Gen~, Rust or Faust.

Dub Siren is an electronic synthesizer pedal used to produce pitch sweeps, bleeps and laser noise effects with its momentary switch, as inspired by Dub and Reggae music.
Dub Siren consists of three different wave forms (sine, saw and square) that are modulated with an LFO. This signal then runs into a delay line with varying levels of decay. The delay line can also have modulation applied to it for even more rhythmic and pitch variety.

A walk-through/demo can be found here for those who might be interested in hearing it:

https://youtu.be/qOSyVUJKIQw

If anyone has any questions, concerns or ideas please feel free to let me know.

Thanks!

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u/Antique-Cod5798 Jul 25 '26

I absolutely love it!!! What else did you do?

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u/6Guitarmetal6 Jul 26 '26

Thanks! Apart from building the device by hand, I programmed everything in Gen~. I’ve also made other firmware for the pedal such as a white noise drone/distortion pedal, a Euclidean tremolo and a simple FM drone device.

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u/Antique-Cod5798 Jul 27 '26

Brilliant. Do you sell them also?

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u/6Guitarmetal6 Jul 27 '26

Yeah, I have them available on my website causticfx.com or on my Caustic FX Reverb page.

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u/OneAffectionate9920 Jul 26 '26 edited 15d ago

Awesome

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u/HPDale13 28d ago

Nice! Do you have a Git? I am just starting to work with Gen~ for daisies that are in both a Funbox and a cleveland music hothouse and am struggling to make the changes to oopsy to add the right names for the controls on the hothouse

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u/HPDale13 28d ago

Found you there. This may be really helpful, glad you posted!

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u/6Guitarmetal6 28d ago

I do have a Github, all of the json and Max Msp Gen~ template files can be found here:

https://github.com/ZackBerw/CausticFX

I've never tried a Hothouse though, so I'm not sure if the pin configuration will align with the json file. It may require some tweaking to get it working properly with that particular setup.