It’s back to an analog machine with BD FM. Designed for kick drums, but it can be rigged for a whole range of crazy sounds as well as a handful of melodic sounds.
There are two VCOs, the first one a carrier (the main sound source) and the second a modulator. There are also no less than four decay envelopes if I’m counting correctly - carrier pitch sweep, modulator pitch sweep, FM amount, and carrier volume. I had a quick play with it and it’s not always clear how the parameters interact. Afaik there is no way to hear the sound of the modulator directly, only the carrier. Interesting stuff.
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a little 81 bpm track that consists of three patterns.
two LFOs modulating a kick’s overdrive
a filtered, overdriven elephanty, bassy sound
some kind of percussion, snare-sidesticky thing, some hats, some bg noise
that’s it. thanks for listening
edit: adding the project file now.
I’ve originally wanted to add another sound so together with that “elephant” bass it would have become a call-and-response kind of thing.
Instead, I ended up sampling it with my Tonverk at 1:30am last night and turned off my Syntakt in order to get some sleep before work ;p
please go ahead and turn it into something of your own if you would like
fyi: the project uses 3 BDFM engines and consists of 4 patterns (1-4) that can be chained. there are a few [FILL] triggers on page 4 of track 2, which is the elephant / scratch track.
Thank you guys!
Yeah that scratching was fun, I just had to put it inside ;p it came to be more or less by accident when I’ve p-lock’ed another sound on the “elephant’s” track and it sounded so cute in contrast
Various wonky experiments BDFM isn’t the easiest to control, but it has some seriously cool potential.
A slow and deep space beat with some background drones. Smeared together in the FX track. The drone comes from the reverb on infinite decay, phased through the double notch filter. Some opera vocals in the latter half
Clangy chords through the FX track. Chords come from painstakingly p-locking the carrier and the modulator.
A mental and pretty scary choir. P-locking the modulator and carrier again. Things get worse in the second half, and I fear that the end was fatal!
Running through some perky FM stabs over a shuffley techno beat
@Oxenholme The FX filter is only used as a “mild EQ” (double notch I think), it’s not sweeped or anything. The vowel effect comes primarily from careful setting of the carrier and modulator frequencies, and the modulation amount. It’s a small sweet spot that I happened upon mostly by chance, just had to do some fine tuning to optimize it.
I’ve had the same experience with SY Tone, which is also capable of simulating certain voice sounds. Same concept of audio rate frequency modulation from carrier to modulator.
I explored this in the “human voice” thread:
