i rarely use aleph for traditional osc duty (every tape i made last year and nearly every jam session included aleph somehow in the signal path…this was the only time i recall using aleph as a pair of oscillators)
so i don’t really hate oscillators but am so enthralled by the alternative methods of tone generation that i ignore most analog oscillator modules. having been designed for use in a traditional synthesis setup, they seem redundant and unnecessary for the way i work. i don’t need voltage control or pitch tracking etc
i’d rather deal with raw sound and shape it into something useful
the more i read and listen and play, the more i realize that samples can be squashed into “granular” conc oscillation, filters can be bullied to mimic bells, and feedback can be polished into shimmering tones that serve my musical purposes
my statement in the podcast is true cause if i use a regular osc i’d rather mess with software or some cheap old pedal/ digital rack module than a eurorack thing
