Synthesizers (and other pro audio stuff)

faetal on 10/7/2020 at 00:53

Yeah, that's great and unsettling.

qolelis on 10/7/2020 at 17:39

Thanks for a creative, constructive thread! It's inspirational and gave me a reason to start learning VCV Rack. With a reputation to uphold, I am of course a little late, but I haven't thought about bells this much since... the accident (just kidding; there have been no bell-related accidents in my life -- until now), so I might as well post what I came up with:
(https://soundcloud.com/qlyrkz/bell-attempt-3/s-hHD7ia7jZug)

I tried a bunch of stuff and instead of trying to explain what I did, here's a screenshot (video isn't fully working yet):
(https://i.imgur.com/iDN0pW7.png)

Inline Image:

https://i.imgur.com/iDN0pW7t.png

Could be better, but it's really time to move on now.

faetal on 10/7/2020 at 18:38

That's a great bell!

demagogue on 11/7/2020 at 00:29

That is great. Very clean and realistic.

One reason your video may not be working is you've set the audio output to ASIO, which recording software often doesn't have access to. If you set it to direct sound to come out of your speakers/earphones, then the recording software can capture it.

Aja on 11/7/2020 at 01:12

Yes, an excellent bell.

I worked on a krell patch today and it's all right, but I might tweak it a bit. I tried to stay within my eurorack, but I don't have a random source, so I had to tap into the 0-Coast. Will record and post later.

PigLick on 11/7/2020 at 02:32

I tried a few things, but finding the krell patch idea really difficult, so I might sit this one out.

Aja on 11/7/2020 at 03:01

Here's mine, finally (https://soundcloud.com/dimedancing/krell/s-fQAKxDRTWTr)

Inline Image:

https://i.imgur.com/lcMGCBF.jpg

Kinda got ridiculous, trying to modulate every parameter I could. I'm really enjoying this contest. It's forcing me to focus and think more clearly about how to synthesize things, trying to create sounds that I normally wouldn't.

Aja on 11/7/2020 at 03:02

Quote Posted by PigLick

I tried a few things, but finding the krell patch idea really difficult, so I might sit this one out.

If you don't have the random voltage source, I don't know how you'd do it. I tried for a while and couldn't make it work. As you can see from my picture, the only one I had was in the 0-Coast, which is why it's sitting there at the bottom doing one job.

PigLick on 11/7/2020 at 03:42

I like yours very ambient in nature, actually very gamey, like soundtrack playing something like Subnautica.

Jason Moyer on 11/7/2020 at 04:51

Is it cheating to use a drone patch I made before this thread? The synth is a Pro 3, the patch is basically an LFO scanning through an inaudible wavetable that's frequency modulating a triangle wave on one of the analog VCO's, then the second VCO is a square an octave below with some vibrato, all going through the 24db ladder filter with a reverse saw LFO simultaneously increasing the amount of tuned feedback and closing the filter. And then a tiny bit of the onboard plate reverb. Oh, and the entire recording is holding one note, middle C IIRC.

(https://soundcloud.com/jason_moyer/pro-3-noise)

Mayhap I'll do one on the Poly D. Using it for a Krell patch is a no-go since there's no way to open or modulate the VCA on a Minimoog aside from the dedicated EG.