Your "Ah-Hah" moment with modular

[Dcramer]

Nice to see some newer members posting in here, welcome to Muffs!

I’ve learned tons over the years but one thing I find that’s really relevant to patching today’s systems is CV ‘Tuning’.
Having the tools and taking the time to scale your CVs in terms of voltage range, voltage polarity, and voltage offset.
In the same way that an acoustic player (say cello for example) spends ages honing the craft of tuning pitch and timbre, our mission is also to tune in the controlling voltages that bring our patches to life.
As Todd Barton says:
“You’re only expressive as your control voltages”

[Pav]

aha moment today is realising i cannot cope with multiple 16/32 step sequencers of different designs..i now appear to have 4 of the little buggers.

i close my eyes and twiddle some random melody until it does not Jarre Or I mute 3 steps in 4 and turn it into a 4 step sequence

Also ..early on I integrated a Moog MF Delay analog pedal having watched them used in videos of the Mother32 launch ..and had the best fun ever with feedback ..pulling back on the knob just before my speakers give out.

Cannot say i have similar fun with Doepfer A-188-2 tapped BBD module - I should have believed the reviews. I have yet to make it sing.

[Shledge]

In fairness, doepfer's BBDs are not really meant to be used traditionally.

[Risc_Terilia]

Just realised that the difference between phase modulation and bipolar VCA AM(ring mod) is that the first offers continually variable phase whereas the second only switches between two phases.

[Pelsea]

After a five year break from exploration*, I looked at this site and discovered extra-solar planets. Who knows where that will lead.


*Planets Moog, Arp, Buchla, Aries, EMS, Serge, Synton and Emu. Oh and PAIA, the dwarf.

[hw408]

This surprised me, maybe i can explain it. If true then its definitely ah ha quantizer + mixing pitch cv’s moment.


Veils #1 input: slowly descending saw shape LFO, maybe 30 seconds. down thru about 8 scale steps and restarts from the top. no veils 1 output

Veils #2 input: pitch from BSP seq, three eighth notes ascending, C-D-F melodic riff, ~70 BPM, seq looping every 3 8th notes. no veils 2 output

Veils #4 output: into Braids pitch. I think it is mixing the veils 1 and 2.

Braids:
quantizer set to Mixolidian.
On a really crisp clean multi shape waveform.
No trigger, just open and doing the descending scale.
It kind of sounds like a flute.

Nice reverb on the mixer.

Its like Veils is taking the descending saw and merging it with the simple BSP phrase’s pitch cv, and the result is Braids is doing the BSP phrase a scale step lower every so often, but still on the scale... before the saw descent passes down to the next quantizer stage. It is like the underlying saw pitch is always heard, but you additionally get the notes from the bsp somehow.

and theres a little musical trilly thing happening every time the saw/quantizer cv crosses down a Mixo interval, because the BSP is not exactly in sync with that scale descent, so sometimes the 8th note phrase is in the middle somewhere when the saw Mixo pitch drops a step. but it is all musical because of the quantizer.

Its like magic.

Im posting this here because i was stupefied to conclude this is what is happening lol. beautiful sounding accident.



note- playing with the lfo range or the veils amounts really screws it up, timing and pitch wise.

(If i have lost my mind and this isnt possible, i will feel really stupid)

[milkshake]

Humans are experts in fooling them selves.



Use the vast amount of knowledge obtained on psychoacoustics.



Most expensive modules just aren't worth it.

[gentle_attack]

The original, sometime ago, was using the CP-251's LFO to control the rate of a MF-102 Ring Mod's LFO.

I had been trying to do this on a Little Phatty drawing CCs from Ableton, and that works, sort of, but this was so much more dynamic. Then I realized I could mult the Ringmod's LFO, do some basic math with the two LFOs, and it could actually control itself. Several years later, I saw MATHS and I really couldn't help but think I need to get back in this game.

Moogerfoogers and the CP-251 are very basic and I'm not crazy about their intersection of function/price/form factor... but I will always have a soft place in my heart for them. I kind of bought the CP-251 on a whim not knowing what it did, and I'm very happy I explored it.