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Madrona Labs Aalto does your Buchla stuff quite nicely - it emulates the vactrol low-pass, waveguide, etc. Has a great patching system and sequencer.

I own both and Aalto sounds great with ACE :D

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...also:
You've probably seen this, but skip to 2:30:


Using the mapping generator combined with @justin3am's suggestions should yield some modular-mouse-madness.

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One ACE audio example...

http://draigathar.org/sounds/Ace1.mp3

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http://www.3amnoise.net/ACE_does_buchla.zip

This is just 7 patches but there is some high weirdness in there.

Most of these patches either use the filters or the LFOs as the primary sound sources. Check out the aggro-waveshaping patch and mess with the mapping generator while holding a note. Play with the crosstalk parameter on the randumbfmseq patch. Mess with the Waveform parameter for VCO1 on the ACEe patch. When you play the filter perc patch, start with your modwheel turned all the way up.

If you have any questions, just let me know.

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^^^ These are fantastic Justin, thanks so much once again. I'm off to plug!

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pdxindy wrote:One ACE audio example...

http://draigathar.org/sounds/Ace1.mp3

how in the world did u make that sound? sounds awesome!!!

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Urs wrote:
Phase47 wrote:Adding to this conversation, does anybody know the development roadmap for ACE? What is coming down the road for it?
We will shortly start to to whip through the Berlin Modular project.

It's been a moving target, and our newly developed technologies allow us to aim for a way, way bigger solution than was outlined elsewhere. We will most likely release Bazille as a product of its own just like ACE and we'll make both fully deductable towards The Big One.

Unlike earlier considerations (3 synths with fixed number/selection of modules) we are no anticipating a single, integrated solution with swappable modules (think Diva) and somewhat interpatchable multitimbral layers. We're looking at a beast of 640+ modules, with 64 modules being active at any time (8 x 8), each with about 10 types to chose from.

This is only possible with quite an effort in memory/cpu maintenance, but I think we've mostly tackled that conceptually, and in parts practically.

However, it isn't nearly there, so please don't drool just yet. We have a lot of stuff on our plates this year. It's our year.

;) Urs
Urs sounds amazing. My only concern is, how easy is going to be to make sounds with/use? Will it be as easy to understand/use as zebra?

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Hmm, one can't beat Zebra in ease of use I'm afraid...

Berlin Modular will be easy for people who find Bazille easier than Zebra. The main advantage is, the wires require the synthesis interface to be non-tabbed, non-scrolling.

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pdxindy wrote:One ACE audio example...

http://draigathar.org/sounds/Ace1.mp3
Yaaay! Cthulhu! :hihi:

Cheers
Dennis

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ddeez wrote:
pdxindy wrote:One ACE audio example...

http://draigathar.org/sounds/Ace1.mp3

how in the world did u make that sound? sounds awesome!!!
I would hazard a guess at dual bandpass filters in parallel to create the vocal sound, and some very fast LFO on the OSC or filter cutoff to create the FM like distortion sound. Envelope to OSC pitch to finish off ?

Just a guess mind.

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ddeez wrote:
pdxindy wrote:One ACE audio example...

http://draigathar.org/sounds/Ace1.mp3

how in the world did u make that sound? sounds awesome!!!
I think the LFO was the sound source and it was also modulating cutoff with an envelop on LFO level... I forgot to save the preset :hihi:

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Bronto Scorpio wrote:
pdxindy wrote:One ACE audio example...

http://draigathar.org/sounds/Ace1.mp3
Yaaay! Cthulhu! :hihi:

Cheers
Dennis
Bow before the Great One! hehehehe

Here is my ACE version of a chainsaw...

http://draigathar.org/sounds/Ace3.mp3

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pdxindy wrote:
Bronto Scorpio wrote:
pdxindy wrote:One ACE audio example...

http://draigathar.org/sounds/Ace1.mp3
Yaaay! Cthulhu! :hihi:

Cheers
Dennis
Bow before the Great One! hehehehe

Here is my ACE version of a chainsaw...

http://draigathar.org/sounds/Ace3.mp3
Both brilliant sounds ... makes me think of leatherface :-o

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pdxindy wrote:Bow before the Great One! hehehehe

Here is my ACE version of a chainsaw...

http://draigathar.org/sounds/Ace3.mp3
Hilarious!!! :D :D :D

Some forest reverb on top, some Haas delay for the direction and I would wince and turn arround. Cool sound! :) :tu:

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pdxindy wrote:
ddeez wrote:
pdxindy wrote:One ACE audio example...

http://draigathar.org/sounds/Ace1.mp3

how in the world did u make that sound? sounds awesome!!!
I think the LFO was the sound source and it was also modulating cutoff with an envelop on LFO level... I forgot to save the preset :hihi:
Anyway you could make a similar patch and post it? I'm not good with ACE and I would absolutley love to be able to understand how to make that sound.

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