Oscillator Sink
Free Korg Monologue Patch Pack: Drum and Percussion Loops
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In this video we’re going to get to know them individually and in concert with each other and other instruments, explaining the features and exploring their sounds.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:42 A moment of madness
02:08 Introducing the Lumanoise V4
03:22 Lumanoise v4 - Architecture
10:23 Lumanoise v4 - The art of internal saturation
12:02 Lumanoise v4 - Sub-audio saturation as animation
14:55 Lumanoise v4 - XXX
19:12 Lumanoise v4 - Various patches
21:54 Lumanoise v4 - Summing up
24:26 Introducing the Monocassa
29:51 Monocassa - With a low-pass gate
31:40 Monocassa - With a sequencer
37:01 Monocassa - The trigger delay trick
43:19 Introducing the Lumamix
48:03 Lumamix - Dancing in dirt
55:17 Lumamix - Glorious Extreme Distortion
59:04 Final Thoughts - Being Uncompromising
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
03:20 - What is it, how does it work and how does it sound?
14:35 - FM Percussion
18:39 - FM Melodies with All The CV
22:15 - Lo-Fi FM Drones
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The percussive element is the Lep Monocassa, and I'm routing its internal trigger through a delay to get additional rhythms when required. The drones are the Lep Lumanoise v4 and the Crows Elecromusic Ovum. The Lep Lumamix is bringing everything together, gluing and smooshing the signals in a way that makes each instrument feel interactive with the others as they dance and fight for dominance at the edge of distortion. The Magpie Pedals Wet is on the send of the Lumamix and is vibrating, clanging and resonating along with the other signals - it really is glorious in this setup.
I'll be speaking more about most of the things on the desk soon, but for this one, I'll shut up and let them do the talking.
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The background music if from my EP: oscillatorsink.bandcamp.com/album/the-shuddering-machine
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:28 Korg Phase8
02:37 Leaf Audio
03:34 Knas
05:16 Meng-qi
06:11 Befaco Oneiori
07:17 Bastl Crust and Thyme+
08:35 Ritual Electronics
10:39 Jolin Avalith
11:35 Vaski Lights
12:10 AJH Synth Entropic Drone
13:17 Flame
14:18 Eowave
15:13 Nebula Instruments
15:46 Supercritical Redshift 8
17:20 Novation
17:34 Moog Spectravox
17:55 MSF DROP
18:59 Lep Lumanoise
19:37 Cyma Forma Alt
20:38 Re:corder
20:56 Soma Flux
22:12 Wiggler v3
23:00 Embodme Erae
24:21 Intech
25:11 Audiowerkstadt
26:00 Outro
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In this video I’m going to explain why that is, talk about some of the things that I enjoy about this instrument and touch on some things which I think could be better, and then explore the sound and workflow of the synthesis engine by way of making a patch from scratch.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:40 Why the KKN is special to me
00:04:02 Underestimating the synth
00:05:24 It's multi-timbral and that's good
00:06:33 Exploring the powerful oscillators
00:32:15 The filter is great (but could be even better)
00:36:37 Oscillator drift makes everything better
00:38:06 It's proper stereo
00:40:04 The stuff I don't like
00:40:15 The V-Patch is limited
00:43:07 The reverbs are disappointing
00:46:08 Let's make a patch from scratch
01:03:56 Outro
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In this video my plan is to introduce Neo Trinity to you from an architectural standpoint, then try to give you a feel for its workflow by building up a patch through a few layers of complexity, while mixing in a few extra examples of patches I've been playing with as I've been exploring it.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:07 Overview of Architecture
03:15 Building A Patch Part 1 - Basic Monosynth Modulation
03:48 BAP pt. 1 - Setting up an envelope
06:18 BAP pt. 1 - Using "Meta" to trigger the envelope
07:37 BAP pt. 1 - Setting up a second envelope (copy + paste)
08:50 BAP pt. 1 - Adding a "hold" section to the envelope
10:05 BAP pt. 1 - Adding a scalable LFO for PWM
13:31 Minipatch - Evolving Drone LFOs
16:09 Minipatch - Self-playing VCO
19:27 Building a Patch Pt2. Sequencing and automation
19:54 BAP pt. 2 - Trigger Automation
20:59 BAP pt. 2 - Rate Automation
21:34 BAP pt. 2 - Automation Length (polymeter)
22:17 BAP pt. 2 - Pitch Sequencing (and Quantization)
26:01 Minipatch - Auto Chord Generator
28:13 Minipatch - Audio Processor
31:40 Build A Patch Part 3 - Algorithmic Beats
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The main "motif" you hear at the start of the track is the 1010 Lemondrop granular - a new acquisition that really impressed me when I tried it out at Synthfest a few months back. I'm glad to have added it to my collection and I can see it getting a lot of use. It's playing a "self--playing" patch based around a couple of the factory samples. The reverb you hear on this sound is coming from the synth itself.
The next sound you hear is the Bastl Microgranny - another granular synth but with a polar opposite vibe to the 1010. It's running through a cool filter unit from TSL Studio Equipment and then into the Lyra-8, taking advantage of the delay and drive (the Lyra-8 is then going out into the GFI Specular Reverb).
The Lyra-8 is being the Lyra-8, that is to say: it's beautiful and destructive and chaotic and alive. I've really been digging into embracing the Total Feedback mode recently and there's a lot of that going on here, which is what's causing the pitch glides and the fighting between the notes played for dominance. Cool.
I'll probably do a separate post about it, but I won't be doing Jamuary/Droneuary this year - I have 2 big, exciting but time-sensitive projects happening in January and I just won't be able to justify working on anything but those projects in the small amount of free time I have, so take this to be an offering to the Drone gods in penance.
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In this video I'll run through each of the upgrades, demonstrate how they work and clarify what's the difference between the Chroma and original versions.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:27 What's the deal with the original vs the Chroma?
00:43 Track Colours (Chroma only)
02:08 Fixed Velocity
04:01 Program Change per Pattern
08:15 Transpose Latch
10:47 Outro
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The new 2.0 update for the Minifreak and Minifreak-V includes the introduction of the sound store and I'm really happy to say that one of the free sound packs available at launch was one that I created called "Deserted Lands". You can install it via the Minifreak-V software or hear some short samples on Arturia's website here: arturia.com/sounds
In this video I'll explore each of the patches in the pack and talk a little about the intent behind them.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:34 A Darkening
00:02:52 A Warmth
00:04:25 Algalic bloom
00:06:02 Bad tempera
00:07:30 Badnews
00:08:34 Bonez v Hornz
00:10:26 Chewd Tape
00:11:50 Creeping Fear
00:13:56 Declockgen
00:15:03 Doomfloot
00:16:34 Dynobreaking
00:18:26 Easele
00:19:44 Ermpet
00:21:45 Gazed
00:24:10 Gravikeys
00:25:28 H4RP-C-KORD
00:26:59 Klang 1965
00:28:49 Odyseq
00:31:38 Pumpchange
00:32:52 Quiet Chat
00:35:14 Resody
00:38:09 Screechnmoan
00:41:01 Sigh and Halo
00:43:12 Slight Excite
00:46:09 Solar Oh
00:48:40 The Chapel
00:50:31 The Pinganing
00:51:40 They Sang
00:54:18 Trancemission
00:56:02 Unbidden
00:58:48 Unponent
01:00:06 XOR-XOR
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:54 Sound Store
01:46 New Effect - Super Unison
02:48 Super Unison - Controls
07:19 Super Unison - Sub Types
12:19 Super Unison - Compared to other FX
14:14 Mod Matrix Macros
17:25 LFO Waveshaper Improvements
20:24 Wavetable Oscillaor
20:35 Wavetable Oscillator - Caveats
21:42 Wavetable Oscillator - Controls
24:09 Selecting Wavetables
24:48 Auditioning the Wavetables
30:39 Building a patch with the new features
44:32 Outro
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Let's pull apart the patterns used in my most recent release to see what makes them tick.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:00 Introduction
01:16 Magic numbers (and the need for cheatsheet)
02:31 Chord Mod Mode
05:09 Octave Shift
06:18 Sequencing some chords
09:55 Stepped/Smooth Random (S&H LFOs)
15:06 Signal Routing - Swapping the delay and filter order
17:47 Dual Filter Modes
22:55 New LFO Wavetables/Shapes
27:42 Complex Waves for LFO1
29:13 Patching some more because we can
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This video hopefully serves as half-video manual, half-sonic exploration of this module.
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Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:30 Introducing Timber, Signal Flow and I/O
00:02:44 Waveshaping - Overview
00:03:06 The Shape Control (and CV)
00:06:14 Exploring the Wave Driver (I)
00:11:46 Exploring the Wave Folder (II)
00:15:22 Symmetry
00:20:10 Combining Shape and Symmetry Modulation
00:22:55 Shaping other basic waveforms
00:31:29 X-Fade
00:40:15 Audio-rate modulation
00:43:47 Noise modulation
00:45:39 Sample and Hold modulation
00:47:37 Putting together a little patch
00:50:45 Waveshaping CV - Transforming LFOs
00:55:44 Waveshaping CV - Variations of Sequences
00:58:26 Waveshaping more complex audio, delicious drones
01:07:13 Waveshaping Drums
01:12:16 Dynamic Waveshaping with Envelope Followers
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Chapters
00:00 - Introducing Ovum
04:57 - Ovum plus Overdrive
07:51 - Ovum with Meng Qi Wingie 2
13:35 - Ovum as Sample Fodder (with Elektron Digitakt)
21:36 - Build Quality and I/O
23:10 - Ovum as a Drone Sidecar (with Lyra-8)
27:41 - Ovum as a Pedal Tone Oscillator (with Monlogue)
31:02 - Criticisms, Wish-Lists and Final Thoughts
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Elmyra 2 is running into Syntakt's inputs (and being effected/overdriven)
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Improvised drone on an autumnal Thursday night.
Lyra-8, RoAT and Ovum are the drones, Zoia is acting as a mixer/panner/reverb send.
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It is, capable of traditional delay and echo sounds as you might expect, but through its wide ranging controls, CV, and a selection of parameters which modify the behavior of the two delay lines you can find chorus, flanging, comb filtering, pseudo reverbs, lo-fi effects and more - and all in stereo.
In this video I've aimed for the first part to act as a kind of video manual going over each of the features in turn. That's followed by a number of example patches which can hopefully show the module in context, showing some of its versatility.
Basil is a module with a lot of hidden depth, so this video is, predictably, pretty long. To help you navigate to the material you're interested in, I've added extensive chapter markers so feel free to jump around to find the info and sounds you're after.
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:34 I/O
00:02:37 Introducing the front panel (and a note about CV control)
00:03:47 Delay Knob (Time Mode)
00:05:39 Speed Control (Delay Range and Fidelity)
00:08:44 Delay Knob (Stereo Mode)
00:10:29 Delay Knob (Fine Mode)
00:11:28 Sync Input
00:12:35 How "Fine" affects a synced delay
00:13:55 Feedback Knob
00:15:42 Feedback Knob (Ping-Pong Delay)
00:17:03 Wet/Dry Contol
00:17:46 Freeze Control
00:18:44 Delay Knob in Freeze Mode (Time Travel!)
00:19:28 Range Control in Freeze Mode
00:21:02 The effect of Sync on the Freeze function
00:23:37 Lo-fi Mode - what is it? (Anti-aliasing filters explained)
00:25:24 Lo-fi Mode - how does it sound?
00:30:13 Space Control (and Hyper-Space mode)
00:30:49 Hyper-Space Mode (using all the Space at once)
00:31:55 Space Modes: Blur (diffusion and pseudo reverb)
00:36:49 Space Modes: Filter
00:38:24 Space Modes: Taps
00:39:48 Combining Space Modes (Hyper-Space!)
00:42:01 CV Control - Delay V/oct
00:47:05 CV Control - Feedback
00:50:27 CV Control - Space
00:53:34 Ctrl - Assignable CV
00:54:14 Ctrl - Time
00:55:03 Ctrl - Stereo
00:56:00 Ctrl - Fine
00:57:43 Ctrl - Wet Dry
01:00:13 Ctrl - Feedback
01:01:07 Ctrl - Range (Beautiful glitch madness!)
01:03:35 Ctrl - Freeze
01:05:37 Ctrl - Lofi
01:06:25 Ctrl - Space
01:07:35 Ctrl - Hyper-Space
01:10:56 Example Patch - Lush Stereo Chorus, Flanger and Vibrato
01:21:13 Example Patch - Beautiful Echos
01:27:12 Example Patch - Lofi-izer
01:30:29 Example Patch - Comb Filter
01:37:40 Example Patch - Destructive Looping
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Ovum into Wingie2 into Zoia (which is a 4 track tape loop with modulation).
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The Wingie2 is running the new v3.1 firmware with alternative tunings. I have it set to the "Well Tuned Piano" mode (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Tuned_Piano).
Also on the desk is a EHX Platform Compressor (after the Wingie, to keep things slightly more controlled), and a GFI System Specular Reverb on the output for...well reverb).
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Digitakt into Syntakt.
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So in this video I start from a "blank slate patch" and work my way up to something along the lines of the pieces I have recently posted, exploring the synthesis engine, effects, sequencer and more.
Reverb, when it comes on later in the video is from the Digitech Polara reverb pedal.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:33 - Elmyra 2's sound design architecture
09:25 - Patching begins
21:08 - Exploring the sequencer
30:07 - Finessing the patch
34:46 - The secret codes
38:14 - Final thoughts
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Elmyra2 into Lyra-8 external input; Lyra-8 into Syntakt.
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Here, the Elmyra is being fed into the External Audio input of the Lyra-8, so that it can benefit from the Lyra's delay and distortion circuit (which also helps blend the two new best friends together). Doing this also allows the Elmyra influence the behavior of the Lyra's delay as it is being modulated in "Self" mode.
In terms of their roles in this piece: the Lyra-8 is performing the more conventional drone underlying the piece; whereas the Elmyra (with the benefit of its internal sequencer) is providing something more melodic and, thanks to the various ways the voices can be modulated and the "ouch" distortion circuit, something which feels very expressive and almost orchestral.
It's no shock to me that the two of them work will together, but I am still more than pleasantly surprised at how their contrasting tones blend together.
Reverb is provided by the lovely GFI System Specular Reverb in its default mode.
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The occasional, glitchy arpeggios come from slowly modulating the delay time with the delay in tempo synced mode which results in harmonically related pitch shifts as the delay buffer gets squashed and stretched by simple factors. Although it's not immediately obvious in how this patch came out, this patch also helped me further understand how you could have the sequencer act in a more "conventional" manner - it's probably missing the point of the instrument a little, but I've long held that the intentional misuse of an instrument is how you get to know it in more depth so I'll see where those experiments bring me!
This time, reverb is provided by the lovely GFI System Specular Reverb in its default mode.
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It is, I think, safe to say that this is an instrument which is very much aesthetically and sonically up my street. Here is the first a few small musical studies I'll be posting with this intriguing instrument. You're hearing the Elmyra2 running into a Digitech Polara reverb pedal in Halo mode which is adding a little stereo width and a little shimmer.
And yes - I will be pairing it with my Lyra-8 in later videos - of course.
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The melody is a combination of the Hyper-LFO modulating voices and voices being modulated by those voices.
I also take time for a few moments of drone right at the end, because you have to sometimes.
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Featuring synths from Korg, Arturia, Elektron, Behringer, Polyend, Soma and more!
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
03:36 - Korg Monologe
05:18 - Korg Minilogue
07:02 - Korg Opsix
09:41 - Korg Modwave
13:52 - Arturia Minibrute2s
17:07 - Stylophone Gen X-1
19:28 - Stylophone Gen R-8
22:07 - Soulsby Atmegatron
23:00 - Soulsby Odytron
24:21 - Arturia Microfreak
26:19 - Arturia Minifreak
29:13 - Korg Volca Keys
29:49 - Korg Volca FM
30:16 - Korg Volca Drum
30:45 - Korg Volca Modular
31:47 - Teenage Engineering OPZ
33:11 - Korg NTS-1
33:49 - Empress Zoia
34:46 - Meng-Qi Wingie
36:14 - Behringer Deepmind
38:24 - Eurorack
40:39 - Norand Mono
42:51 - Polyend Play
45:12 - Elektron Digitone
46:47 - Elektron Digitakt
49:02 - Elektron Syntakt
51:49 - Soma Labs Lyra-8
55:06 - Outro
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This began as an experiment around using the Mod Delay to do pseudo-Karplus-Strong/comb filter things, and expanded from there are the Lyra made it clear what it felt like doing this evening. Lots of tuning and re-tuning of the voices as the Hyper LFO pushed and pulled things around.
As well as the Flashback delay pedal you can see on the table, I added a little bit of reverb in post, in particular the free and excellent sounding KPlateD from @(youtube.com/watch?v=lttn64XiWDg). @airwindows you should definitely check out the whole "KPlate" range of reverbs - they are very good.
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I'm constantly charmed by the Lyra's ability to invoke some kind of "alternative history" of electronic music - it's always so primitive and raw in the best possible way.
I added a little bit of reverb in post, in particular the free and excellent sounding KPlateD from @airwindows (youtube.com/watch?v=lttn64XiWDg)., you should definitely check out the whole "KPlate" range of reverbs - they are very good.
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Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:09 - New Feature: Envelope Snap Mode
02:59 - New Feature: Random Key/Arp Mode
06:05 - Introducing the Sample Modes
07:03 - Managing Samples in MIDI Control Centre
10:47 - Selecting Samples
11:16 - Sample Select in the Mod Matrix
12:55 - Introducing the "Sample" Oscillator
13:40 - "Sample": Explaining looping
16:24 - "Sample": Reversing samples
17:34 - "Sample": Modulating start time
19:13 - Introducing the "Scan Grains" Oscillator
23:04 - "Scan Grains": Time-stretching drum loops
24:03 - "Scan Grains": Density control
26:41 - "Scan Grains": Chaos control
28:58 - "Scan Grains": Building a patch
30:58 - Introducing the "Cloud Grains" Oscillator
34:17 - "Cloud Grains": Tempo-synced time stretching
36:49 - "Introducing the "Hit Grains" Oscillator
37:32 - "Hit Grains": the Shape Control
39:50 - "Hit Grain": Bouncing Ball patch
42:44 - Closing Thoughts
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As an occasional purveyor of generative music, I'm a fan of the songs that the Krell can sing and I've previously featured videos of various synths being patched this way. But one synth I've somehow managed to overlook for this task is the Arturia MiniFreak, which is a crime, because it has a range of features that make it suited to not only the classic implementation of Krell patches, but also iterating on the core ideas to take the Krell to new sonic and musical galaxies.
Here's Jeremy's video on KRELL: youtube.com/watch?v=JDi9u2NyRi8
KRELL
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Wingie2 is acting as a stereo resonator, Syntakt is sequencing Wingie2, and adding delay, reverb and its lovely master drive.
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Leaving aside the beautiful array of LED pads which adorn the front panel, its main distinguishing feature is its focus on generative, algorithmic and chance-based tools designed to help you quickly create and iterate on musical ideas.
Much has been said and demonstrated on the Play with regards to quickly creating often intricate beat-centric music - and rightly so, as that is an area where it excels, but many of the concepts and features on offer here apply equally well in the world of ambient music - so that’s what we’ll be doing today - making use of these features to put together a little generative ambient piece to chill out to. To demonstrate the workflow and sounds.
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The delay is entirely responsible for this chugging, triplet rhythm. Yes, good.
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Come then as we explore the Herzlich MMI.
You can check out the module and other's from Herzlich here: etsy.com/shop/HerzlichLabs
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:45 - What is the MMI and how does it work?
07:26 - Example Patch 1: Playing Rings
09:23 - Example Patch 2: Filter and Envelope Tweaks
11:55 - Example Patch 3: Touchable Pitch and Mod Wheels
16:06 - Other body patching instruments
17:23 - Example Patch 4: Routing triggers through your body
19:51 - Example Patch 5: Dub Mode
22:17 - Other considerations and outro
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A textured, droning, ambient moment.
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:23 - The VCAs (I/O, Level Faders and Overdrive)
00:03:11 - The VCAs (Attenuverters and CV)
00:04:55 - Mixing (the Mix Output)
00:06:07 - Mixing (the Mute Buttons)
00:06:56 - Post/Pre VCA Mute (jumper settings)
00:09:20 - VCA Output Mixing and Normalization
00:11:34 - VCA CV Input Normalization
00:12:51 - Envelope Followers (Introduction)
00:13:21 - The "Side-Chain" Envelope Follower
00:14:23 - Compression and Expansion with the Side-Chain Envelope Follower
00:19:51 - Applying the Side-Chain Envelop Follower to Other Sources
00:22:23 - The Spectral Envelope Follower
00:23:46 - Patching a Specral Compressor/Expander
00:26:00 - Introducting cascading multiple Aikidos
00:26:34 - Example Patch: Using Aikido in a Synth Voice
00:30:32 - Example Patch: Panning
00:33:30 - Example Patch: Cross-fading
00:36:02 - Example Patch: Full dynamic performance mixer/VCA (feat. 2 Aikidos)
00:48:28 - Example Patch: Feedback processor
00:54:57 - Example Patch: Using the Envelope Follower to Process Audio
00:59:08 - Example Patch: Cascading Overdrive and Distortion
01:04:21 - Example Patch: Beautiful Drones with Stereo Audio-Rate Amplitude Modulation
01:12:26 - Example Patch: Parallel Compression
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Early in the month most of that progression was more about how I was feeling as time went on, what felt right on each night, but the last week and a bit was more of a conscious effort and I've known "how it's going to end" for quite some time - like this.
I'm going to talk about this month in a video soon - it has been tough but I've learned some important lessons. Tonight I'm feeling a three-way mixture of emotions. First - relief that I will be reclaiming my evenings. Next - some sadness that I'm at the end of this project that gave concrete purpose to all of my free time this month. Finally - I'm feeling proud of my output this month; I know this music is of niche appeal, but there's nothing I released this month that I regret putting out, so yeah, I'm going to allow myself to feel proud of this.
The full collection of pieces, along with project files, patches etc. will be going up on my bandcamp on Friday: oscillatorsink.bandcamp.com
Anyway, back to overly long tutorial videos shortly. See you then.
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A combination of time pressure and not wanting to outstay my welcome in previous tracks this month has led to an unconscious bias for things to last around 5 and half minutes, I went into this performance knowing that I wanted to wallow in this drone for as long as possible (and guessed that if you're still with me at this point, you're willing to spend the time amongst it too).
I think this is the piece I'm most proud of this month because it feels like the culmination of everything I've learned.
Like I said: one more just to put a bow on things and then I'll allow myself to actually go to bed during February (just kidding, I need to prepare all of these tracks for release on Bandcamp now!).
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It's the only instrument I've used this month that seems to only push me towards a gentler, lighter, prettier place and given the last few jams, I think we need to take a breath, so here's the Deepmind to offer some respite.
With that I've broken my previous record for days of jams in Jamuary and I feel like I should be able to manage at least 2 more, so lets see if we can bring this arc to a close...
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Kept it simple tonight because I had to start working on this waaaay later than ideal, so I worked up a fragile, kind of string-sounding patch (using two Bass-X oscillators, which is one of my go-to oscillator modes because it's fantastically lively) and found a little progression I liked that gave me a little bit of space to play with some variations.
One thing I took the time to do was set up aftertouch to "break" the patch a bit - making it sound like everything inside the synth "isn't quite right" when I lean on the keys a little harder or wobble them around a bit, which is why you might be able to see me giving the keyboard a bit of a hard time in this video!
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So I grabbed the Digitone and started by putting together a very primitive beat to ground things, and then...well I whacked the master distortion up to full, added some deep heavy drones which phase in and out of consonance and dissonance with semitone movement, and finished it off with a higher drone that sounded like digital angels (but the bad kind).
Anyway, make sure you play this one loud.
This is, I think, the peak this month as far as "oppressive" goes, but it's good to be able to aspire to something...
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