I made some music today and I used ...

[justin3am]

A-188-1 BBD

Ugh, I've had 4 of these over the years. Probably the best delay I've used for Karplus-Strong sounds. Then something sexier comes along and I sell it. Using Rings, AD's Proton, and Clouds with the resonator mode from the Parasite firmware now, I still wish I had an A-188-1 with old stock MN3005-8s. It sounds great with an LPF in the feedback loop but the feedback output comes after the mix output, so the first repeat is not filtered. It's better to make an external feedback loop and mix path anyway. If only someone made a simple 2HP NE570 based Compandor.

I have two of them, but I've got a 1024 and a 4096, neither of which is exactly ideal for Karplus Strong.

I hate to take the thread so far off course...
I'm suprised to read that. It's true that A-188-1 won't track 1v/Oct but with an MN3007 (1024 stage BBD), I found it to be perfect for tuned percussion and plucked string sounds. What filter do you use for damping? I was very happy with the results of using a TipTop Z2040 or a QMMG channel in LPF mode. It was also cool to put a phaser in the feedback path. What makes it work well, is that it doesn't lag/slew much (if at all) when sending stepped modulation to the delay CV.

foosnark, I'm very happy with Proton for Karplus-Strong synthesis. It sounds great, tracks 1v/Oct and it's pretty flexible in terms of sound shapping, my only gripe is that there is always some internal feedback. This is particularly noticeable when you get to longer delay times. It's nice that you can still tigger the internal exciter when using the external input though (unlike Rings, which normals the exciter to the external input). Definitely try using Rings with an external feedback loop. I was playing around with Rings and two Plague Bearers, it was an absolute mad-man!

[justin3am]

Not today but yesterday I made some music. Nothing worth recording.
I'm slowly but surely working on my electro-mechanical rhythm station. I'm driving 5 solenoids from my modular, using a BeatStep Pro as the sequencer. I'm just firing the solenoids at pots and pans for now but I hope to have a shitty drum kit to play with, later this month.

[digitalboytn]

I made some music today and I used ...

My mind

[foosnark]

I'm very happy with Proton for Karplus-Strong synthesis. It sounds great, tracks 1v/Oct and it's pretty flexible in terms of sound shapping, my only gripe is that there is always some internal feedback. This is particularly noticeable when you get to longer delay times.

And yeah, Rings with feedback is fantastic. Not so much with the 2hp Comb, as it turns out. But with wavefolders, sample rate reduction, filters, distortion, delay etc.

I'm starting to get a bit better handle on Comb I think, but it's pretty limited in the range it'll play in before the decay gets too short, and the pitch slew is pretty slow. Haven't decided if I want to stick with it, sell it, or sell it to upgrade to something slightly more serious like a Proton or much more serious like a Mungo d0

Anyway: Bring It

EON in oscillator mode pushing an A-196 PLL, which is controlling an E352 (patched back into the A-196's comparator). There's also an envelope going into the E352's FM input, making the A-196 fight a bit to keep tracking it. There's just one pitch sequence going on here, feeding the EON. What we're hearing is a mix of:

-- the A-196 VCO output (tracking more approximately than usual since it's not being monitored by the comparator)
-- E352 second output (playing squares a couple octaves up)
-- Tides in PLL mode multiplying the E352's first output (three octaves up and then one down from the sub output)
-- Rampage "rising" output triggered by E352's second output (a couple octaves back down)

Also mda Subsynth, Fault, ValhallaRoom.

[foosnark]

Putting a couple of frustrating days behind me with:

Step Away

1: 0-Coast into ValhallaPlate, and also into 2hp Comb and Purp (a distortion plugin I wrote).
2: Fnord (digital noise VST I wrote), CamelCrusher, ValhallaPlate
3: E352, DPLPG, Sinclastic Empulatrix.

[ghettosynth]

I hate to take the thread so far off course...

Not that it's in my purview, but I want to say that I'm glad to see that people are talking about the music that they're making and HOW they are making it and HOW the equipment that they use fits into their music making. That was the idea for this thread. It's more than just "here is my music", and also more than "this is the gear that I like." I wanted the thread to be a long form thread with ongoing discussion of the specific relationships between the music that they make and the gear that they use to make it.

So +1 for some awesome detail. As far as I'm concerned, it's not off topic.

YMMV and all that.

[ghettosynth]

Inspired by foosnark's one and done approach I made some music today with Reaktor. I often find myself noodling in Reaktor with some ensemble or another, sometimes mine, sometimes someone else's, and I forget that there's that recorder there. By the time I bring up my DAW and reload Reaktor as a VST, the moment is gone.

So yeah, I used the recorder. Just one patch, one synth, this time my own, the current WIP that I'm talking about in the AM synth thread, played in real time, warts and all, minimal-ish experimental.

[thecontrolcentre]

I made a remix using Live 9 ... does that count?

[garryknight]

Was it music?

[Googly Smythe]

I used Unfiltered Audio's Fault. For me, not something that I would use everyday - but it's brilliant for making Forbidden Planet style music.

[Aleatoriac]

I made some music today and I used...

Yo Mama

[thecontrolcentre]

Was it music?

It's a song, so yeah

[garryknight]

Was it music?

It's a song, so yeah

So, there you go

[andrelafosse]

Reaktor Blocks drone noodle:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BXv8an4DnIV/

The main gist is using the Kodiak Curve Sequencer as a modulation source, particularly for the LFO "freeze" functions. So, a positive sequencer value holds the LFO at whatever the current value is, for the length of one sequencer division (1/4 note, in this case), and a negative value resumes the LFO spinning away. Both LFOs in this case are unsync'd; I like the effect of the free-time LFO's suddenly locking into fixed values on downbeats.

The AM102 oscillator block is good fun, too: http://www.amazingmachines.com.br/produ ... am102.html

[DMG68]

Moogerfooger low pass filter on guitar with envelope, auto wah/envelope follower style. Great sound, I've had it for a while but had only ised it on bass up to now.