Semi-recursive, semi-halfarsed vector drone in Zebra

[Sendy]

Four oscillators. Each oscillator is morphing between two waveforms randomly using it's own random glide LFO. A mixer is mixing waveforms 1 and 2 and randomly crossfading, while the same happens for waveforms 3 and 4.

The final mixer wanders between the mix of waveforms 1 and 2, and the mix of waveforms 3 and 4, and it's passed into a delay. All modulations are done with their own seperate random LFO.

Add a bitcrusher to one of the base oscillators, and an Osc FX to two of the others, two sideband modules, an LP Xite filter after the oscillator stages, to warm and space things up a bit.

Set up everything to intermodulate in the matrix - LFO's affect eachother's rates, sideband offset, oscillator stereo width, bitcrush, filter and Osc FX parameters in a complex (and halfarsedly random) way.

Finally, I set up XY pads 1 to 3 to control all LFO rates, pad 4 controls various timbral parameters globally, and I made one random LFO a random step type dealie.

So what we have is a kinda vector synthesis inspired random drone with lots of movement, realtime tweaking, and droney drone-ness.

This is what I do when I'm bored in the studio and have writer's block

I may actually have a go at making an album of this stuff, just for giggles

http://soundcloud.com/sendy/zebradrone

[xh3rv]

I may actually have a go at making an album of this stuff, just for giggles

Maybe a sample set navigable by all the SoundCloud tags? That might take 30 times longer though

(Seriously though your stuff always has a certain hot-off-the-circuits sound, especially as performed, that's probably tough to really capture in a patch ...)

[Bronto Scorpio]

I read half of the topic title and I knew this would come from you
Really great sound! I love chaotic modulations

I just discovered how awesome your wavetables sound as modulators for XMFs (using the sidechain input) a few days ago

Cheers
Dennis

[Gino Cortesi]

Yeah, I thought this was cool as well.

Reading the description made me really want to hear it!

Best regards,

Gino

[Sendy]

Yeah, I thought this was cool as well.

Reading the description made me really want to hear it!

Best regards,

Gino

That's what I like about flexible modular synths... It's not so much I use them as a workhorse for music writing (though I wish I could!), but when I get an idea for a neat concept (audio rate crossfading between differentially synched waveforms, circular pitch scales by wave rectification, yadda yadda yadda) I can usually make it in Zebra, or at least, something that allows me to explore the ideas and hear what they actually sound like.

For me that's as valuable and inspiring as using any instrument in a composition.

I just discovered how awesome your wavetables sound as modulators for XMFs (using the sidechain input) a few days ago

Cool! The XMFs won't run on my computer (don't ask!), but it's exciting to think that when I get my new computer later this year, I'll have a whole unexplored module to play with.