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if you looked at w, read about the clicky envelopes and thought that you had better things to do with your time, you may want to give it another try :)

i'm getting a lot of use out of it for bleepy step sequenced parts where the notes have spaces between them. half the parts for perhaps a dozen tracks and proposed tracks.

i've gotten tons of usable sounds out of it generally using the same procedure - use the default preset, adjust the mod to the desired brightness, maybe change the ratio, and almost always to an 'integer' divison where the ratio doesn't cause any perceptible beating. (of course, i do tend to do a lot of bleepy stuff with near-sine waveforms.)

usually for colour, since straight modded osc will sound like cheesy fm, i'll raise feedback 2 slightly (1 sounds plain because it generally makes the waveform more like a sawtooth). perhaps give it a (usually very fast) envelope to mod and maybe use the filter (not using the moog filter much, the nonlinearity sounds too smooshy to me for anything but sounding moogy).

as noted on my page, i've found that occasionally using osc feedback may cause bass notes (usually only a few keys) to sound sharp. the actual pitch/phase indexer isn't modulated, only the timbre, so it's psychoacoustic.. i've eg. found it on one key and not on the next.

i'm using it a lot with horizon's stereo oscillators for contrast.

no tracks for a while tho, it's sort of a project :) give it a run if you need a break from subtractive vas.
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.

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a week or so ago i started to put together a multiosc version. instead of using a 1 sample delay for osc feedback, each oscillator has a phase-locked sine function (as dsf it uses a real sine function instead of table.. cpu intensive, but sounds nice) running in parallel as the 'feedback' source, which expands the array of possible waveforms without the 'noise'. i'm not sure if it still has the psychoacoustic tuning issue, and it still aliases at extreme settings.. i suppose it's ~a compact, specialised fm synth. i don't think i'll be able to bring myself to add a unison feature due to cpu expenditure. if this piques your interest, let me know.
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.

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"it sounds nice" sounds good to me.
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i must be making some boring music.. ~3/4 of my tracks are w lately :)
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.

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Just got W.

Eager to try it out!

:)


Nice Rurik !

That's what I'm talking about (request for plugs posts). Some electronic, some natural bass, harp, flute...

Nice (smacks lips) :D

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it's not very lucrative due to the amount of competition, "standard" (subtractive, additive.. things with oscillators and filters) synths are what i am most interested in developing at present, they're what i'm using most in my current music. other developers are far ahead of me (eg. i haven't implemented minBLEPs yet, though everyone does things a little differently) - i'm not sure what's next.. some brute force b.l.interp.table osc synths, or a w 2.0 (which is more tonal than noisy because i mirror the oscs instead of using a 1 sample latency for feedback) - they will have 'micro' features like envelope pick-up behaviour parameters, oversampling rates, things that other devs leave out. i like the idea of being able to select technical performance considerations.
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.

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