Laundromat module

Does three steps:

1. Wash
   Make the sound wetter and cleaner. How?

2. Dry
   Make the sound dryer and crisper. How?

3. Fold
   Folds the sound. Double wave folder.

Graphically it should take inspiration from a washing instruction found on clothes

One or more knob plus cv per step?

This is a tough one to stick with the analogy and remain in the realm of useful audio processing. Not that it's a bad idea. I love the metaphorical approach as an inspiration / challenge. There is the aesthetic/subjective interpretation of the adjectives and the technical one, which sometimes differ.

1. "wet", to me, means reverbation/delay. "clean", to me, means less "noise".

2. "dry", to me, means lacking in reverbation/delay. "crisp", to me, means boosted higher frequencies and maybe also attenuated lower frequencies.

3. "fold" does immediately make me think of wave folding, yeah. I guess if you thought of it as a way to prepare the sound to be "put away" or "stored", if could be lossless encoding too. haha. It could also be some concept of smaller pieces of the original sound (the loose concept of "folding time"), like some kind of creative delay that plays back little chunks of past input in some interesting way that isn't just a plain old delay.

Obviously, these stages kind of contradict themselves logically as a real time process, but that's ok. It's not like you'll get the exact same thing on the output if you set everything right (Unless we're elite DSP masters. lol). Would it necessarily be hardwired with one input and one output like > Wash > Dry > Fold >? Might be more flexibility in design it was like

> Wash >
> Dry >
> Fold >

There's also the concept for "wash" of spinning, and for "dry" of tumbling, thinking of the actual machines...

I'd just add more laundry terms and bump it up to proper multiFX beast. "Centrifuge" can be some vibrato/rotary effect.
Setting the washing "temperature" can be overdrive.
Setting washing "time" can be delay.
"försköljning" is pre-delay.

"Ironing" can be bitcrusher maybe or something.
"Bleach" can be pitchshifter.

so on and so fourth. And a way of choosing the order (signal chain) you do all them "laundry" steps just makes the signal all weird and crazy! Just like your clothes would become, hehe. So thats nice.

I think it could be pretty cool with a bunch of knobs with cv that are labeled with washing symbols and affect the sound accordingly. It should be easy to get something fun and/or useful out. Order does not have to make sense clothes -wise, but there could be a selector that lets you choose between two or three reasonable ones. Wet/dry could be as simple as the mix for reverb and delay.