Emulating DFAM

Ah, right. Well I the OT can’t certainly do that. Now I’m kind of bummed that I sold my DFAM, hah. That little device would have made it pretty much into the synth I wanted it to be.

I wonder If I should sell my 0-coast for a DFAM and that little device now…

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I agree, I really like noir! But the playability on the DFAM is amazing.

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MAFD between OT and DFAM make for an excellent combo. Removes all the limitations of the DFAM sequencer and adds a lot of the wizardry of the OT midi sequencer. Add a CV.OCD and the possibilities are endless!

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You’re not making this easy for me. Will I inherit Fin25’s on-off relationship with it?

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I’ve been working on recreating the DFAM in Bitwig’s Grid. This is based largely on the front panel controls and the signal flow diagram from the DFAM manual. I’m already rethinking some of the ways I have things wired, and it’s definitely still a work in progress, but it gets pretty close to what I’ve heard in various DFAM reviews and jams on YouTube. I’ve been considering something like a Launch Control XL or MIDI Fighter Twister to better play with this in real time, as mousing around gets old real fast.

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In the video, we can see that DFAM sequencer is always on run mode, waiting to a clock. Maybe every midi note is mapped to a specific number of very quick impulses that go to ADV/Clock input of DFAM. Example you want step 3, you play the note mapped to step 3 and the MAFD sends very quickly 3 impulses to ADV/Clock to get to the right step. I think it could work this way.

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After having a DFAM 2 years ago, I sold it and got lately the regrets.

I’ve built a DFAM emulation in my NM G2 with quite good results and this heals a bit the gas while scanning thru the Internet for a good deal on a used one.

Overcoming the limitations of the hardware (Seq Steplenght,Env`s etc) is a big plus on the emulation. Hence, keeping the basic structure of the DFAM is a must.

Some g2 users here with interest, just hit me up.

Plus Kick/Hat :slight_smile:

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Do I really need a DFAM ? Probably not, but it inspired me to hook up Noir on iPad to a midi controller and get tweaking, Nice focused set up this one:

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Just bought it. I’ll try SP404 techno! :blush:

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DO I need a Nord modular hardware to use your patch ?

There’s an emulator around for nord g2 - dealt with on other threads / google / other forums

Otherwise if it’s a g2 patch then yea , you’ll need g2 keyboard / module

Since this thread was started there’s also that behringer device that’s quite cheap — so options have changed.

There’s probably a reaktor patch in the community library too - if you have reaktor.

Maybe m4l patch too
Or try noir - probably cheap while it’s Xmas.

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oh, speaking of which. A4 doing the DFAM, but polite. Will do a monster version sometimes :wink: Also got better in dfamming on my Syntakt as well. It has become an obsession.

Not the device OP asked about, but I also did it on the Hydra (2 jams in this video), a bit less polite :wink: Much closer in terms of “how it is made”, since a stepped LFO on the Hydra is pretty much what the sequencer knobs on the DFAM are.

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This patch should work with the G2 Demo (monophonic G2 version with less Modules) which runs software only.
Here:
https://www.nordkeyboards.com/downloads/nord-modular-g2

Software side, there’s also an interesting, and synthesis educative, VCV rack DFAM emulation tutorial floating in YT since a bit of time:

I have Softube modular that emulates a bunch of Doepfer modules. fairly straightforward to mimic the DFAM, sounds nice too!

I made a thing.

https://alexwasashrimp.space/music/dfambo

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Reaktor also has a pretty convincing ensemble.