I’m pretty sure he just borrowed the name from someone else…
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Sampling my decks into my Kaoss pads, then firing them into the OT.
Allows me to get my sampling chops tighter on that beast, working through any stumbling blocks. - Plus pre production on the KPs is nice.
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I feel like the secret weapon of sound design is using guitar modeling plugins like Guitar Rig as processing.
It’s incredible where you can get to as an endpoint compared to the original sound.
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I love how many people mentioned ring modulation in this thread. It warms my tiny little heart. I’ve hardly done anything without making use of it since my obsession with it began back in the 90s.
Anyway, my current synth sound design rabbit hole has been the patch morphing update on the pro3. It’s a lot of fun just deciding which way to implement the morph control for different pairs of patches.
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I’ve been experimenting on and off with blending drum sounds on the Digitakt. Essentially, I load up a project with a bunch of mostly drum sounds (but also a good deal of oddball sounds like matches or lighters being lit, dropping wrenches down stairwells, zippers, guitars played with the tuning way low, etc.) I load 3-4 samples I think might work together and set a trig to hit on the one for each sound. Then I just manipulate the samples as the pattern plays blending attack/decay, pitch, modulation, filter, and crucially, microtiming until it morphs into a new synthesized drum sound. I then resample the results. It is a really easy and fun exercise when I lack direction or am tired of working with the samples I have. A lot of it ends up being not being good but I have struck upon some of my favorite drums sounds this way.
Also, running samples through guitar amps. Not that original an idea i know but god you can get some great sounds this way. Drums end up feeling so focused and pronounced doing this.
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Feedback loops…
Synth or audio desk…
Plugin the headphone out into the input and tweaking filters, eq, effects…if its not modular.
Its just so damn refreshing to my ears atm to listen to something dangerously out of control and alive.
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Ooh yes, that was my favorite thing to do in Eurorack…
Favorite toy atm :
no input on a ( very) small mixer -> malfunctionning nanoverb -> DN (for effects) -> DT (record + sidechain)
Cant tell if that’s good but im pretty sure it makes sounds.
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Does this mean looping a particular step of a drum sequence at will, then after releasing it jumps back to where it should be legato style ?
Always wanted to do that on my electron machines (OT, MD)
Buchla type things for the weirdness. FM for smooth sounds.
Yes. Such a cool feature.
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Half sound design, half sequencing. But recently I’m enjoying this new to me technique where I use some cv output of one sequence to affect/modulate/accentuate a completely other track/melody.
For example the gate output of a pad/bass melody on my Martrixbrute, triggering an envelope to modulate a lead melody from my modular.
It’s not really layering, as they are unrelated. It’s more like relating the unrelated? It really ties the room together.
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Ring mod has been mentioned a few times here; to get a bit more bloom out of the Digitakt‘s reverb, lately I‘ve been really enjoying a ring mod type LFO to the reverb send. The original sound stays unaltered, but all the nice ringmod timbres come shining through in the reverb.
It‘s great!
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OT AM mod and No Reverb.
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Running everything (full drums and sequences from my modular and SH01a) through A4 inputs with chorus cranked to 127
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Making custom LFO shapes for every LFO I use on OT.
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Carpool Strong
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I just (finally!) figured out what’s the deal with oscillator sync!
Never really heard what the logic was to what it did on the A4, soundwise. But now I get that for it to do its thing you have to modulate the synced oscillator pitch, for example using one of the extra destinations of the Filter envelope.
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I’ve been a little obsessed with filter pings lately. Here’s a clip of some filter pings with FM modulation from a complex oscillator, so the FM source is itself being FM’d. I love this stuff.
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FM breakbeats.
FM acid.
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