13 · General Relativity v1.0

Geodesic^™

Delay lines in a gravity well.

Geodesic is a multi-tap delay and freeze where each tap lives at a radial distance from a gravitational source. The Schwarzschild metric sets each tap's clock rate: near taps slow down, stretch, dim, and darken; far taps keep more of their original time.

Push the field toward the horizon and the delay stops behaving like a normal echo. It approaches a held loop with persistent redshift, then thaws as mass decays or the field is cleared.

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How it works

Geodesic plugin interface, showing the black-hole accretion field, mass and orbit controls, and the radial tap delay

03 · Hear it

A listening pack is coming.

A listening pack -- redshifted delay, the horizon hold, and evaporation -- arrives shortly. Geodesic itself is shipping now.

Demos at launch

The same source, falling into wells of different depth: a redshifted tail, a frozen loop held at the horizon, and the thaw as mass evaporates.

04 · The mechanism

Time dilation, made audible.

Geodesic treats the delay as a radial field, not a row of unrelated taps. The Schwarzschild solution says clocks closer to a mass run slower than clocks farther out. Each tap reads its buffer at the local clock ratio α(r) = √(1 − r_s/r), so the pitch and time stretch are a consequence of position, not a momentary tape-stop gesture. As r approaches the Schwarzschild radius r_s, the ratio falls toward zero and the tap parks at a horizon.

Geodesic mark, a radial gravity well — Schwarzschild metric General Relativity, 1916

What Geodesic does differently.

One metric over the whole field.

A conventional multi-tap delay places echoes at unrelated times. Geodesic places taps at radii. Each radius yields a clock ratio, and every tap inherits its stretch from the same governing law, so the voices move together as the well changes.
Mass deepens the well.

Mass raises the time dilation near the source. Close taps slow harder and darken; far taps stay comparatively stable. Orbit moves the tap population through the curve, sweeping the field from gentle redshift toward extreme slowdown.
A lawful horizon endpoint.

When the redshift ratio falls below the horizon threshold, a tap parks into a held loop instead of pitching forever downward. Freeze captures that state. The hold is the physics of the metric, not an arbitrary clamp.
Capture that can thaw.

Evaporate reduces the effective mass over time, turning a capture gesture into a release. Relight re-ignites quiet material after the horizon has gone too dark, so a frozen field can be revived rather than cleared.
Spread without breaking the law.

Dust absorbs high frequencies on material that falls deeper into the well. Tidal and Diffusion spread the tap population across time and stereo space, while the center of the sound stays a single metric-controlled delay field.

05 · Specs

What's in the box.

Gravity engine

Schwarzschild time dilation as the tap clock law — redshifted, position-dependent delay
Mass, Orbit, Taps — depth of the well, where the population sits, how many voices occupy it
Feedback, Dust, Color — return material, high-frequency absorption, spectral placement
Tidal, Diffusion, Width — spread taps across time and stereo without breaking the single metric
Freeze, Evaporate, Relight — capture the loop, thaw the field, re-ignite quiet material
Lawful horizon endpoint — taps park into a held loop instead of pitching forever down

Timing and output

Sync, Quant, Reverse — musical timing and direction around the physical core
Mix, Trim, Decay — output and recovery controls for placing the field in a track
Black-hole accretion visualization of the radial tap field
Every control position is a valid operating state

Formats and systems

macOS 11+ · VST3, AU, Standalone
Windows 10+ · VST3, Standalone
Apple Silicon and Intel native
An audio effect — it processes the signal on its channel

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Geodesic™

A listening pack is coming.

Time dilation, made audible.

What's in the box.

Add Geodesic to your flow.

Geodesic^™