PigLick on 15/7/2020 at 02:28
i think the piano sound one would be quite difficult as well, i find emulating acoustic instruments through synths hard, with the exception of distorted guitar sounds. I'll get onto airy and cold sounds tonight.
Aja on 15/7/2020 at 04:30
My guess is that a truly realistic piano sound would require a lot of acoustic knowledge and likely an insanely complicated patch, so maybe that challenge should just be a piano-ish sound that's interesting.
qolelis on 15/7/2020 at 04:39
I'm already far behind, but will still try to do the full list as a personal challenge (and have also long wanted to try "pure" modular synthesis (as opposed to Reason)). I also made it a personal challenge to use only basic VCV modules (i.e. the ones that came already installed -- although with a a few exceptions) as it seems both better for learning and closer to the hardware equivalence (and easier for others to recreate) -- and since I just started learning VCV, going through the full list will probably take quite some time. There are otherwise a lot of extra plugins to download, which I'm avoiding as much as I can. I did download a very simple reverb module, though (I don't know if it's possible to emulate it!?). Am I perhaps limiting myself too much?
My drone is starting to shape up, so I might actually post that one at least. Ideally, I want to add some kind of very slow LFO (for slower variations), but haven't yet figured out how to do that, so I might skip that, post, and move on.
I haver other, higher priority projects I need to switch back to soon, so I might not get back to this in a while.
Edit:
And again, thanks for a great thread and great content.
PigLick on 15/7/2020 at 04:53
yeh its actually nice to be creative and appreciate each other for a change
dema i like yours, the 2 airy ones gave me a kind of church organ vibe for some reason.
faetal on 15/7/2020 at 08:11
Quote Posted by qolelis
And again, thanks for a great thread and great content.
I made this thread as an antidote for stepping into the cancel culture / coronavirus threads. I'm pretty happy that it's led to this cool patch workshop, so thanks to Dema and Aja for that :)
demagogue on 15/7/2020 at 09:10
Here's my piano patch. I looked at a few existing piano patches just to get the main idea, and the main message I got is that, except for the envelope always having the same rough shape, they looked very different & there doesn't seem to be much system to it. The waves can't be too jagged/buzzy, they should have rounded peaks and valleys, but not too broad, and 2~3 oscillators work better than one. But aside from that I couldn't find much consistency.
So I made a clear patch, gave it two oscillators, and just kept playing with their wave shapes until I got something piano-like. I put a LP filter at about 3K, and a quick open with an envelope at the start, and the slightest pitch wobble to make it sound like an old beat up piano. There's a waveshaper on the first wave with just a sine wave that boosts its body a bit. And a multicomb effect at the end, which just sounds like reverb to me, and I wanted reverb.
Here's what I came up with. It sounds best in a low-mid to mid-register. At the end I put in a few high notes where it's still recognizably pianoish, but it only holds up to a point.
Looking Glass Piano: (
https://soundcloud.com/user9513654/looking-glass-piano-patch/s-y88eYBwuXJJ)
demagogue on 15/7/2020 at 09:54
Also: you know you've been synthing for too long when you look at those curves for COVID-19 cases in different countries and one of your first thoughts is imagining what they would sound like as waves. XD
faetal on 15/7/2020 at 12:14
That's really nice. It's an electric piano sound I'd actually use (I don't like EP sounds much).
I think the filter envelope is really important to getting the right feel.
PigLick on 15/7/2020 at 12:20
wow thats a great electric piano sound dema
also slow down boss!