#959

that module has caught my eye several times. I love how basic and open the design is. I had forgotten about it but that could be a really cool option. Have you tried using it to ring modulate a feedback path at all? That’s something I haven’t tried doing yet–I’ll need to experiment with it some time this weekend!

@alanza: Currently a Reflex Liveloop which you can do some awesome stuff with as a Karplus Strong delay. The onboard bit-mangling produces all sorts of crazy effects and can lock on to various harmonics–very cool when you sequence it in tandem with the pitch. I just got a Mungo d0 as well, but I haven’t installed it in the case yet and it’ll be a while before I’m able to get ahold of a Zoom module for it and really get into the super-short-delay goodness.

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#960

It’s some version of the bouncy ball patch using two cycling envelopes, the rise of the first modulating the decay of the second. The end-of-cycle of the second then triggers a third envelope for controlling the amplitude of an audio source. Apply modulation to the first envelope and attenuate everything to taste.

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#961

truer words are rarely posted

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#962

I don’t miss having a dedicated ADSR envelope, though I do love me some Make Noise Contour (ADSD). And I do sometimes use Stages for ADSR, though more often it’s multiple D or AD envelopes and some LFOs.

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#963

A little. It’s more amplitude modulation than ring modulation but at audio rates it sounds really tasty. I haven’t explored it too much yet, but even for mixing a couple of signals and adding/subtracting/multiplying it’s great. Easy build too if you’re into DIY.

#964

one thing eurorack has taught me, after almost 20 years of ADSR, is that it’s not really necessary

and stages is usually an AD, a D and whatever else i need but i still mount Peaks for envs i can trigger manually

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#965

This is why I’m eschewing a dedicated envelope generator for a Disting (actually 4) and a XAOC Zadar for exquisite modulations.

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#966

Anyone using Akemie’s Taiko? I’m wondering if it’s possible to create subtle, more nuanced percussion… as well as vibraphone, or marimba-like tonal sounds. Demos often show its boisterous and identifiable/overbearing (idiosyncratic) characteristics. It seems like a great module for making understated melodic sounds, and possibly (?) subtle percussion. Anybody using this module, care to share any thoughts?

Also, is there potential for a variety of modulation/influence, or does it always have a sort of identifiable character?

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#968

https://www.sssrlabs.com/store/sm010_kit/

I really want to build this. But I just can’t really think of a use for it. The idea of the thing is really intriguing. The concept and mechanic is really cool. I feel like I don’t have enough equipment to make this practical to own. A few more VCAs would be more useful!

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#969

I’d like to use it as both, creating sounds/using it as a voice and having the option to sequence those voices

I woud love to sample real time. The Assiml8or looks dope, but is very expensive. Maybe an option would be just getting the out of the rack into something like a sp404 or a sampler.

But maybe I’ll just keep my sampling workflow & get use the modules in the rack and figure out how to best do it afterwards.

#970

very interesting

tbh, just started looking into it, wasn’t planning on buying it right away

#971

That is very interesting. It seems to be a passive matrix mixer though (unlike the WMD 4x4 matrix).

If you stick to 1-to-1 mappings is it still able to map CV to VCOs and stay in tune?

#972

speaking from experience, what I think I need in my rack definitely changes as I see how I end up using things once having them in hand.

maybe it will end up still making sense for you to use one of the full sampler modules, but I think starting with using the modular to augment what you already have will give you the most benefit relative to what you’re investing in $ and time to learn.

#974

yah, just have to temper my excitement, lol!

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#975

I’d like more harmonically rich pretty drones with slowly-changing timbres in my modular system. What modules, synthesis techniques, etc should I look into?

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#976

what do you already have?

a wavefolder with something to modulate it slowly would be a simple first suggestion, though.

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#977

Frequency Modulation springs to mind.
So, a couple of oscillators and a VCA to control the FM depth would be a start.

#978

Another vote for FM :slight_smile: Also don’t overlook AM, filter FM, or phase modulation (which can be done by modulating the delay time of a short, clean delay if you don’t have a VCO with a phase input).

Wavetables can also be really good at it. I love my E370 :slight_smile:

Spring reverb / pitch shifter feedback loops also do the job for me.

#979

this is exactly what i’ve been after too. as great as fm is for this, it can be hard to find the “sweet spot” .ive also found great results with the combination of harmonic oscillators, some slow lfos, some vca’s for moving / varying levels of attenuation and some reverb. a eurorack example would be the verbos harmonic oscillator, a xoack batumi and an erbe verb and some vca’s. i’ve been doing this with a just friends, a tangle quartet and an es-8 to do all the modulating with vcv rack. but of course, you can do all this completely for free in vcv rack with a setup like this.

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#980

I think it’s easier if your oscillator(s) give you the option of either exponential or linear FM. Linear is certainly much easier to tame although I really like the sounds that exponential can produce while trying to find the sweet spot.