I got a lot done on Vinyl this week working with Filter effects to modify the song. Our wall, which I added a nifty little particle effect to, now adds a chorus filter to the song so that when you hit it three more tracks of the song come on. The result is a really nice echo effect that lasts for two seconds. We tested this with a few various types of music, including songs with lyrics, and it pretty much always sounds good, so that's nice.
I spent a lot of time working to get a distortion effect when the player hits a static object, but had a lot of trouble with it. The main issue is that the filter drastically increases the volume, which ends up blasting out of the speakers. I tried various ways of dropping the volume, even cutting the output audio to .1 of it's normal volume, but nothing actually decreased the volume of the filter. This is really unfortunate because the effect of the filter, played for a split second, is a really nice horrible sound that would function great as an obstacle. For now I've shelved this, but I'd like to get back to it in some form since the effect really does work so well.
For now, there's just a small Echo filter on the static so you get a bit of extra echoing.
Finally, I worked with a Reverb filter to play while the player is grinding on one of bJason's rails on the side of the pipe. This ends up sounding like you've plunged underwater and lasts while you grind. We've talked about doing a remixing effect while grinding, but I'm more in favor of us coming up with a unique sounding filter.
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