The Nonlinear Circuits Thread

[jwm]

yeah that was an unintended side effect of futura condensed at a small point size, but i figured since the nlc logo was futura, it checked out

[anosou]

Just built a Beat Freq and I was excited to learn it can also be well behaved! Here it’s fed with tow slow LFOs, creating a weird little shuffle sequence. One oscillator is sequenced by the CV out (no quantizer!) and the four gate outputs are triggering envelopes for four little plinky sines.

It’s more fun when Beat Freq spazzes out, but I thought more people should at least know it’s tameable.

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[grey]

Thanks. That one is on my list, and there are very few demos!

[jwm]

latest build! live to ride, ride to die.

[alley_cam]

Great design!!
How much do eurorack FPE panels end up costing?
I’ve done a few Ponoko items but definitely looking to do something with graphics next

[jwm]

mmm, they aren’t cheap. depends on hp, thickness, coating, drilling amount, etc. i think the most i paid for one was something like 58 for a 24hp panel with uv print. i can generally rationalize the cost when i build something because parts (and my labor) are cheap comparatively, but anyway

also, their shipping (in the US at least) is free over 50, so its best if you can do multiples in one order, and they can be totally separate designs too.

[anosou]

I feel that it’s my obligation to post here every time I do something fun with an NLC module, just for the odd chance that someone else would like to hear it. Here’s Beat Freq being a “sub oscillator”, and I use that term loosely:

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[tr909]

Video of my newly aquired Flipflop Chaos:

NLC Flipflop Chaos

Notes in the video description but in general I’m trying to use it as a beat and melody generator.

I’ve got another 20 minute video coming that gets a bit better results. Does anyone else have comments on the FFC? Mine does not seem to run by itself as the makers video suggests. Fully clockwise the trigger output will rapidly fire but that is it.

[hinterlands]

I ended up trading FFC for a Sly Grogan but I did really like it when I had it. The FF Chaos pairs really well with a sequential switch to vary up your patterns. In terms of it being self running - if you send it a constant high voltage into the gate input it will run at a speed determined by the rate knob. You could use a channel of Shades to do this.

Another fun thing is that the amplitude trigger output is variable which makes for really dynamic results when used to strike a LPG or to ping a filter.

[forrest]

Had some fun using Hyperchaos Deluxe to control DLD/plaits/marbles/3sisters in this one, feeding it random gates really gets things moving, in the time between gates it will slowly move around from place to place, basically it’s like a chaotic burst generator.

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[pelang]

I got a very nice black triple slot from Andrew and already ran out of outputs. This thing is doing such a wonderful job in keeping sounds alive.
For more slow modulation outputs, would you go for another triple slot or a Let’s Splosh ?
I am wondering what happens if I feed Let’s Splosh with some outputs from triple slot…I am more looking for smooth modulation without abrupt gabs and jumps…

[mrsoundboyking]

If you feed Let’s Splosh smooth modulation without abrupt gaps and jumps then Let’s Splosh will return smooth modulation but all scrambled up.

I would recommend Let’s Splosh to anyone who needs a lot of modulation outputs. I feed mine with four (non-square) outs from a Dixie II and Let’s Splosh provides ample strange modulations for me.

Having written all of that, I haven’t tried a Triple Sloth so cannot comment on it with any effectiveness.

[jwm]

@mrsoundboyking

I would recommend Let’s Splosh to anyone who needs a lot of modulation outputs.

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[eblomquist]

Are the modulations quite varied?

[pelang]

That’s what I was hoping for. Feed it with sinus/triangle and you get smooth modulations without steps.

Triple slots create LFO kind modulations but they are not repetitive in a pattern recognition way. I found it almost magical the way it can build up in musical ways.

Isn’t one of the beauties in modular synthesis that you can modulate everything… like a live organism ?

[jwm]

it really depends on what you feed it. basic shape waves will give you some gentle oddness (though the frequency of said waves can result in choppy discontinuity,) but yeah, feed it four random waves and its a left-turn-at-albuquerque situation, if you get what i mean

[forrest]

The nice thing about let’s splosh for me is that it gives you positive and negatively rectified signals from the inputs, so you always know you’ll get positive signals from the first and third columns, while getting negative signals from the 3rd and 4th (not including the bottom 2 3rd/4th column outputs which are summed+/summed- so may be different)

[hermbot]

I’ve really liked feeding other faster modulation into the Triple Sloth inputs. I don’t know how it decides which source “wins”, but it’s always a fun change.

[pelang]

I haven’t even tried yet feeding it with something… something klicks in me when not everything follows my will ; )

I do have an eye on the super slow sloth as well. Plant time

[grey]

I wish all of their chaos CV modules had full wave rectification as an option.