I’ve been on a Dual VCO tip for the past two weeks on the Rytm. Its a treasure trove of cool and unexpected sounds. Take Double Voltage soundpack for example, its all DVCO, chock full of evocative and bombastic sounds! And that’s just with 1 LFO and ADH env only… So that one gets my vote… unless you want something more limiting before we get to that one?
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Sounds cool to me. I was thinking about that one (and SY Raw) earlier.
I also think it SY Tone would be fun, but we’ll get to that later.
A thought… To balance flexible and less flexible machines, is it a good idea to start two labs in parallell? For example, one for Dual VCO, and one for let’s say CP Vintage? Will we get bored exploring just one limited machine at a time? Might be more motivating if there’s a “fun” machine to balance with. They would have separate threads ofc.
I might be wrong though. I thought the noise/impulse/cymbal lab would be hard, but I’m in awe with all the cool contributions in that thread.
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two parallel labs sounds agreeable to me
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Two new Labs posted!
SSL #5 : CP Vintage
SSL #6 : SY Dual VCO
Like I explained in my previous post, I thought it would be a good idea to run two labs in parallell - one less flexible machine, and one very flexible. We’ll see hw it turns out.
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I’ve been quietly listening to and reading all the SSLs for and wanted to chime in to say how much I’ve been enjoying them and they’ve been very much inspiring. My own ST has been on loan to my pal for a while now as he’s using it on the album we’re working on. But in the next week or two we should be meeting to record the last track for it. After which, I’ll be getting my ST back and I’m look forward to contributing to these which might necessitate reviving some of the older ones but I presume that’s not worries.
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New lab is up here!
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SSL’s do not have an expiration date. Post em when you got em
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I’ve not used Overbridge that much but have wondered while doing these Labs if people are using it for their sound design. It looks like a much quicker way to save sounds into the sound pool as your working but I find it easier to do editing on the Syntakt itself.
Anyone find it better creating sounds via Overbridge than on the hardware?
I like the visualisation of the effect of LFOs in the OB apps.
@verdurin WDYM? For me it just show the LFO waveform and start phase.
I love using OB2 for SSLs. you see most parameter values at glance, and modulation visualizations help a lot as well (you see the parameters being modulated in realtime)
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I mean the LFO destinations.
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@jm2c but how do you see it in realtime?
Seems I am missing something important 
Blue rings move around the modulated parameters in the OB UI? At least over here they do
@jm2c doesn’t work for me 
Do you mean plugin or standalone?
VST3 plugin. I never use it standalone
@jm2c seems I know the reason. This feature from v 2.18.5. I am still on 2.13.4 
I see. Didnt know the old versions didnt show them. I was without OB2 for a long time, tried it when it was still new and the RTL was unusable for me back then. Only came back to it when I got my M1 macbook and was plesantly surprised how much it had improved.
After updating Overbridge to 2.21.3 - visualisation works 
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Had a play around with OB last night and managed to figure out how to control tracks with Lives automation lanes which is very cool! I like how you can edit the pitch, mod, velocity etc per track to set up 4 destinations for control, that’s a lot of routing I’ve never looked at before on the hardware!!
I could sequence one track to play melodies but could only play the root note of the other tracks using the bottom octave. Is there a way to play multiple notes for more than one track from OB in Live? I thought maybe you could automate the root note but didn’t see that as an option, I guess you could automate the pitch to get melodies on the tracks?
A lot of fun regardless!
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