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Thread for sharing your Sound Design Discoveries, Thoughts, Ideas, Interests, etc...
I do a lot of "what if" thinking about why certain sounds, sound as they do. It leads to experimenting (usually in Drambo) in an effort to find some science that provides explanations.
Some "experiments" are ongoing, and lead to discoveries that in turn lead to additional questions.
I'm sure others here must also have sound/music interests they are exploring...
Which leads to the intended purpose for this thread.
Maybe we could expedite our collective learning curves by sharing discoveries, interests, and such...
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Nice idea!
One of the classic techniques for "widening" a sound in a two oscillator subtractive synth is to slightly detune one oscillator.
I thought is was interesting to discover that a basic chorus effects seem to work by splitting a signal into two parts, then detuning and/or delaying one part before remixing it back with the original.
This caused me to think about why the vintage Juno synths only had one oscillator instead of two. But they had built-in chorus effects.
Apparently the 2nd detuned oscillator can be replaced by using the chorus.
I just taught myself how to build a gated snare in AUM by simply using Drambo FX in the effects slot. Two modules; a “Plate Reverb” and a “Noise Gate”.
I like searching for the science that makes certain waveform shapes/features, sound a certain way.
Because there's no great App in iPadOS for drawing your own waveforms, I searched for a Mac based solution and discovered a synth called:
"Vital - Spectral warping wavetable synth"
There is a free version of Vital available for both Mac and PC. Vital works as a standalone Mac App also.
Here is the link to the website:
https://vital.audio
There are also many youtube videos available that go over all sorts of wavetable sound creation techniques using the Vital synth.
Have you ever tried EG Waveshaper?
I've looked at youtube videos for EG Waveshaper, but never bought it.
I figured a more precise editor for drawing waveforms would be necessary for doing in-depth experiments.
EG Waveshaper is "finger draw" only.. no line tools, etc.. right?
I find drawing in the Drambo Graphic Shaper useful/educational, but it's not exactly wavetable.
My plan is to learn Vital Synth and use it to do wavetable experiments on Mac. Then transfer anything good I make on the Mac to the iPad for use in the Drambo Wavetable Module and SynthMaster 2.
Yes, but there’s quite a bit of control in drawing the lines.
I like using the WebDAV thing to browse folders full of Serum wavetables on my Windows PC for use in Drambo's wavetable synth.
RE: Waveforms.
I'm interested in looking for a ways to identify characteristics of sound.
ie.. Listen to a sound and be able to make predictions about how that sound could be built.
I think it would be cool to break down sounds into ranges of structural and motion elements, and develop a methodology for combining those sound elements to create specific types of sounds, according to a set of sound construction rules.
One of the most challenging projects that I've done so far in
dRambo was figuring out how to draw a tesseract using oscillators.
I was inspired by a video of a VCV rack module that does this already.
It was of a rotating tesseract.
I still haven't got it rotating but I did succeed in drawing a tesseract.
My research led me to an article written by an American Israeli mathematician
from which I was able to see the equation for a tesseract itself
and then the next step was to translate that equation into
x,y and z so that I could then be able to "draw" it onto an oscilloscope.
My earlier experiments of using oscillators to draw
shapes were quite interesting in themselves.
A torus for instance is quite simple, using the graphic shaper
on one or several of the oscillators can change the shape entirely.
Seeing oscillators harmonise is fascinating, one can see
how architects visualised the sounds that they heard
and transformed those sounds into buildings for example.
In some respects drawing on an oscilloscope is akin to vector graphics
the thing is one is using the x and y of an oscilloscope and oscillators
rather than using coordinates.
To draw ones own waveforms?
I do think the combination of dRambo's oscillators and the
graphic shaper can produce some very interesting shapes
and imagery.
Here’s a screenshot of the tesseract
As you can tell I’m still working on it.
That’s interesting. I’ve noticed this general concept works really well in BLEASS Alpha. I usually don’t detune the second oscillator, but I do almost always have the first and second at least one octave apart. I’ll then set it to 3 or 4 voices and detune there. It gives a similar effect.
I’ve also found that a light chorus on snares and hats gives them a fuller feel which is super important in my instrumental hip-hop.
Kamata - draw your own, sort of
That's amazing!
Thank you.
As mentioned it’s a work in progress and a lot of fun. 😏
When I’ve completed the project I’ll upload it onto patchstorage
for other users to experiment with though it does require a
midi controller to get the best out of it.
That is brilliant and thank you for the image to understand better
Thank you.
No problem.
Chorus on snare and hihat… interesting. Will definitely try it.
Phasers on hihats are very common and yield good results but never though of adding chorus.
@horsetrainer
Thank you for the topic of this thread.
I started looking at the tesseract project again this evening
and I've finally managed to get the tesseract rotating.
The problem is that it's rotating the whole thing
and not the individual vertices of the squares
but at the very least it's rotating.
One more step in the right direction.
Yes.....
More news to follow.
Yeah it was an interesting discovery. I think one or two of my tracks on my album have chorus on the snare and hats.
I’m doing it on the tracks I have in flight too.
I like to tweak compressors at low monitoring volumes so I can only hear the loudest transients
This is fantastic. Not that I can begin to understand it. BUT. From now on when people ask me what it's like to make music on the ipad, I'll just say piece of cake, mate - and show them this description. 👊
This is a compliment and a half.
Thank you 👊🏾
I meant it as one. Cheers mate.
Quick update in regards to the tesseract.
That is too cool Gravitas!
I revisited my earlier version and decided to try another approach.
This time round, as you can see,
I’ve got the two boxes rotating in opposite directions.
It’s almost there.
I don’t know how I’m going to describe what it’s actually
doing in tech terms but once its finished I’ll certainly try.
I’ll keep on posting some of my progress.
Thank you.
What you’re doing is what I imagined “vector synthesis” actually was when I learned about it a few years ago. I far prefer this to the real answer…the truth was a little disappointing, though I do like some vector synthesis…
Here’s how I describe it so far.
This version has three main sections.
One for the oscillators, one for the phase
and amps which enables the rotations
and the final section is to do with creating
the tesseract by functioning as a visual
frame rate “gate”???
It slices x and y very fast.
Which I suppose is the ‘z’ component.
The key to creating the rotations was
adding in graphic modulators instead
of oscillators which is what I had used
in my earlier light experiments.
I have 16 oscillators in that project but for this version I obviously needed to simplify.
I was to busy having fun with all
16 oscillators mapped to my LC XL and looking at the oscilloscope going ‘wow’.
This version is only using four wavetable oscillators and for the main part I use three.
The fourth one is a problem solver.
I’m also labelling each section this time
so that another user or users could see which bit is being affected whether it’s
the x, y or z axis or words to this affect.
This one still needs honing as I not only
want the cubes to be rotating in opposite directions along the horizontal, their not quite rotating as one of them folds in on itself, I would like them to ‘morph’ into one another.
Even in it’s current state it’s hugely playable
if you like playing with vector synthesis
especially when used with a midi controller.
On that thought I’ll do a version
using on screen knobs and sliders.
Anyway apologies still finding the language.
Indeed, vector synthesis in the Prophet VS / Yamaha SY22 / Wavestation sense is actually a four channel mixer, where two of the sliders are turned on their sides.