Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
I didn't intend to make another Krell patch, but here we are! Let me explain:
Last night I was prompted by a YouTube video I watched to try something out on the Krellinator. This prompt had me thinking about pulse width modulation on the 258t oscillator; this oscillator does not have a PWM feature, you can get a similar effect by frequency modulating itself. This doesn't make for a tonal solution in any way, as pitch does not stay stable. Perhaps it was this quirk that got me in the flow state, and what felt like 20 minutes later I had this patch made and this video recorded.
The more I was messing around with this patch the more interesting sounds came out of it. Self-modulating the 258t had an interesting, grainy texture to its timbre, and combine that with some ring modulation provided by the 257t and you get some wildly fizzy sounds. They felt like fireworks to me, hence the patch name.
I didn't intend to make another Krell patch, but here we are! Let me explain:
Last night I was prompted by a YouTube video I watched to try something out on the Krellinator. This prompt had me thinking about pulse width modulation on the 258t oscillator; this oscillator does not have a PWM feature, you can get a similar effect by frequency modulating itself. This doesn't make for a tonal solution in any way, as pitch does not stay stable. Perhaps it was this quirk that got me in the flow state, and what felt like 20 minutes later I had this patch made and this video recorded.
The more I was messing around with this patch the more interesting sounds came out of it. Self-modulating the 258t had an interesting, grainy texture to its timbre, and combine that with some ring modulation provided by the 257t and you get some wildly fizzy sounds. They felt like fireworks to me, hence the patch name.
