#38

Feeding Rings back into itself is a lot of fun. So is cranking the frequency way down with a negative offset and using it as a lo-fi delay.

Feeding it “chirps” of sines with changing pitch, rather than constant-pitched sources, also opens up some new sounds.

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#39

Can you talk us though patching a lap steel sound? I love the sound of lap and pedal steels (I almost made one)

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#40

Feeding O&C’s Viznutcracker into Rings leads to some interesting results. Play around with the Bytes app till you find something you like

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#41

Yes, I can upload a video or so with some basics. There’s no aha-moments or so and no big deal. There’s even a possibility where I’m the only one thinking that it sounds like a lap (or pedal) steel. We’ll see

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#42

I would also love to see your lap steel patch!

#45

I have definitely come up with Rings patches that sound guitar-like. IIRC orange mode plus slow modulation of structure and position = guitar.

This was my take. Maths Quantimator & Rings & Avalanche Run I think it was.

Edit: and some triple wavefolder

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#47

It’s like @xenus_dad wrote: modulate structure and position carefully to make it glide over the notes in the scale.
Here’s one example with some kind of lap steel effect (well, sort of):

https://instagram.com/p/Bg1f9RcnGgx/

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#48

That’s a really lovely sound!

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#49

Meta question: how do I embed Instagram?

#50

Really lovely. Gonna try this

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#51

You just paste the link and it pops up. That’s how I do it at least :grimacing:

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#52

Thank you! Do that. Watch out cuz it’s really addictive.

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#53

I can imagine :slight_smile: I love slide guitars, but slide rings might be even better

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#54

Cool. It is possible I need to be a “Regular” before mine will unfurl, which is fine. :slight_smile:

#55

Hit the 3 buttons on Instagram and select share. You should get an option to copy the link. Paste it in here et voilà.

#56

I don’t have that option on Android or Web, but it’s cool :slight_smile: I’ll figure it out, or not.

Rings!

#57

I’m on android and can share links. It may be that the videos you want to share are private?

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The copy link bit is what I use.

#58

Helps if I read all the options on my phone. Successfully embedded! Thanks.

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#59

Can you explain a bit more both the feedback and the lo-fi delay uses? They seem pretty cool :slight_smile:

#60

Lofi delay: feed the V/OCT and FM inputs a negative voltage offset (or positive inverted with the attenuverters) to drop the frequency below audio rates, and turn Damping up to max or near-max. Sympathetic strings mode works really well for it, but the other modes can too.

Feedback: literally just a feedback patch where you mix some audio signal with a Rings output of Rings, and patch that mixer into Rings’ input. Maybe insert something else in between, like a wavefolder. I like matrix mixers for feedback patching. You’ll probably want a VCA after the “final” output and/or before the Rings input.

Feedback can cause some clipping/saturation within Rings, which then activates additional filter bands in the resonator – so you can feed it a sine and get rich violin- or horn-like tones out of it.

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