yeh this is always a fun technique to play around with
and depending on how much fine control you have over the relevant parameters, adding in some delay/reverb fx and doing random modulations and lfos/envs on various things can make some really super-weirdo sounds… like alien birds and hyperdimensional insects and shit like that
i don’t have a MnM any more but i used to use short delay times on everything now and then. high feedback… route LFO’s to various delay parameters… the delay is a chameleon of sorts.
i used to use the drums w/lot’s of short delay being modulated + high feedback/gain etc. it makes those drum sounds otherworldy.
the FM synth engines + delay with modulation can do some really weird stuff… not strictly karplus but in the ball park sort of…
At 7:00 minutes you hear one MnM Karpluss voice doing the deep bass (through a Moogerfooger filter) and two panned MnM Karpluss voices doing the harsh stringy thing through a Filterbank.
I was doing something like this with my MD last night, and was able to get some nice chord/pad sounds from a little cymbal hit! Pretty amazing what these machines can do.
Here’s a table showing the relationship between the delay values and the resulting notes. As far as I remember from when I took these notes, the values work independently of pattern BPM, so the notes will not be transposed at different tempos. I could be wrong, though…
Some of the notes are off by more than a few cents, especially the lower values where one single delay value constitutes an interval of several half notes.