#192

Just wanted to share a sound snippet — QPAS sounds amazing when modulated at audio rates through the wildcard inputs.

This is the first few seconds of Aphex Twin’s Nanou2 looped and distorted through a weird Cold Mac patch, then low-pass filtered by QPAS. Mangrove is providing modulation to the left wildcard input. Mangrove’s amplitude is manually controlled through its air setting, and QPAS’ cutoff is slowly modulated by hand and by a LFO.

18 Likes
#193

I have made what I thought was a cool video with multiple pinging and modulating, but I somehow have recorded only the right side. You’re not alone. :slight_smile:

2 Likes
#194

I figured out a way to get QPAS to play the undertone series just like Mangrove using Cold Mac. Stereo undertone series!

AUDIO IN > QPAS
QPAS LP (STEREO) > AUDIO OUT
QPAS SP (MONO) > COLD MAC CREASE IN
COLD MAC CREASE OUT > QPAS FM IN

This works best with Q set between 9:00 and fully counter-clockwise. Past 9:00 things get chaotic. The cutoff frequency and the FM depth have a very large influence on the resulting timbre. The subdivisions can go all the way down to infrasound, but finding the right parameters is a bit tricky.

You can also patch use Cold Mac’s crossfader to offset the QPAS SP signal using the Survey knob before sending it to crease, which has a pretty big impact on timbre.

AUDIO IN > QPAS
QPAS LP (STEREO) > AUDIO OUT
QPAS SP (MONO) > COLD MAC OFFSET IN
COLD MAC LEFT OUT > COLD MAC CREASE IN
COLD MAC CREASE OUT > QPAS FM IN

Applying a small amount of slow modulation to Radiate Left / Right provides some nice subtle stereo movement.

10 Likes
#195

Wow, looks fun. I will sure try that. Thanks!
Btw what do you mean with

maybe you meant COLD MAC LEFT OUT?

1 Like
#196

Yes! I’ll correct that!

1 Like
#198

:musical_keyboard: :musical_note: Someone left Cold Mac out… in the rain…:notes:

5 Likes
#199

long overdue but finally got around to making this, and looking forward to making more with QPAS and other modules.

a longform no-talking exploration of QPAS, enjoy!

16 Likes
#200

Got mine the other day and I am loving it, it sounds so lush and with all the modulation options it becomes a very competent rhythmic tool. Here’s a very simple demo of it modulating a chord progression I made in Ableton using Wavetable and running it back into Live’s Echo.

It also works really well with the Lyra, because its drones are very rich in harmonics so you get these noisy textures coming in and out of the stereo field and makes a very live sounding instrument sound even more alive.

4 Likes
#201

Looking for advices on using wildcard inputs? Does anyone have cool ideas?

#202

They’re designed to respond to just about anything. Feed them gates, triggers, noise, LFOs, sequencer CV/gate outputs, even try feeding some QPAS outputs back into QPAS, and just experiment until you find cool combinations that work for you.

1 Like
#203

I tried and there are some things that I like. By asking for advice I am hoping to stumble upon something I didn’t try.

#204

Have you tried feeding them external audio?

1 Like
#205

well, kind of. I tried feeding it one of the harmonic oscillator outputs as well as feeding its own HP or SP outs. Sometimes gives nice distortion like sounds, and sometimes sounds meh :slight_smile:

#206

If I remember right the wildcard inputs only react if the signal is hot enough to pass a certain threshold. I recall putting squarewaves into it and getting really nice, aliasing and frequency modulation like sounds.

#207

Had a really enjoyable time with Radio Music > Erbe Verb > QPAS > Hyrlo this evening. The operant thing being: Mixing the LP, BP, and HP in stereo wasn’t something I had tried before, and if you haven’t tried it, I recommend it!

1 Like
#208

Oh man, I need a stereo mixer. I have a mono one now and then I got a QPAS and am… wanting a stereo mixer. You dig the Hyrlo?

1 Like
#209

I recommend the Intellijel Mixup, has mutes, and with the VCA on the qpas you can use the second pair of stereo in’s on the mixup quite effectively. Though the hyrlo looks nice and I have an OOTS, they have a high build quality.

1 Like
#210

Stereo mixer roundup: https://doudoroff.com/mixers/

7 Likes
#211

Make Noise’s XOH is missing from your stereo mixer list.

#212

Ha! Doh! Just fixed that.