#41

It’s a very basic thing but filtering a noise source (either low, band or high pass) will give you different flavours, useful both as sound source and modulation.

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#42

See this video for cool accent/good advice:

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#43

I used to own a Bastl Noise Square but realized noise is everywhere, mostly I would use noise out from the Turing Machine, or SSF URA (produce digital-alike noise in audio range clock rate).

#44

I use it a lot to FM/modulate filter cutoff. Of course, I use it in tandem with heavy attenuation - wild +/- 10V noise isn’t much fun for that. But it gives an interesting fuzz.

Lots of interesting things to be done with a noise source and a comparator (and either an offset or a constant voltage to compare it against). This is basically about a third of how a Turing Machine works, fwiw.

Similarly, noise centred around 0V and a an offset or attenuator would make for an interesting wonky clock source - the clock only advancing when the noise is >0V…

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#45

I’ve been creating a lot of nice noise signals using a DSI Evolver lately, by cross FMing the digital oscillators really heavily. Using different wave shapes, pitches, and FM amounts can produce a wild array of noise and even stuff that resembles vinyl crackle, radio interference, and raw electricity. I’m not sure how well it would work with “cleaner” digital oscillators, the ones on the Evolver are pretty trashy in a lovable way, but I’d recommend this as a way to explore unique flavors of noise.

#46

A tiny amount of noise modulating an oscillators pitch sounds great to me. It gives a kind of ‘degraded’ type sound (don’t really know a better way to describe it).

If using an echo/delay, modulating delay time with a little noise is also cool. I made a Reaktor ensemble using noise for delay time modulation and it sounds very tape echo like to my ears.

If you’ve got Reaktor, the ensemble (Patina Echo) is here: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/9375/

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