red fray

2026

starved overdrive with suboctave drones

red fray is a starved overdrive with suboctave drones, glitch artifacts, and selectable resonant body filters. three character modes (clean / saturated / ring-mod), three slope modes (1-pole / 2-pole / 4-pole), and three starve interaction modes (independent / freq modulation / Q modulation).

behavior

The starve knob maps 0–10.

starve 0–3: Normal operation. Full headroom, standard overdrive character.
starve 4–6: Compression. Reduced headroom causes earlier saturation, fattening the sound.
starve 7–9: Suboctave territory. Clipping is hard.
starve 10: Glitch zone. Random gating holds and releases signal fragments unpredictably.

controls

drive

input gain / drive depth

starve

(0 to 10, suboctave drones and glitching)

tone

(low = dark, high = bright)

level

output volume

resonance frequency

resonant body filter cutoff (40–1200 Hz)

resonance q

resonant body filter peakiness (0.5–15)

toggle a

[on-on-on] character (clean / saturated / ring-mod)

toggle b

[on-on-on] filter slope (1-pole / 2-pole / 4-pole)

toggle c

[on-on-on] starve interaction (independent / freq / Q)

footswitch l

[hold] creak accent (Q×3, starve+30%)

footswitch r

[momentary] on/off

both fs (hold 2s)

reset to bootloader (leds blink 3x)