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CUNSA v/s FUMANA: The same patch on two different filters!
A few years ago we animated a bass line through Fumana for a short video. It was a cool experiment, so we decided to do a step-by-step guide. And then we thought that it would be fun to replicate the same patch concept on Cunsa, a totally different filter that shares with Fumana basically just the size. Which one do you prefer, if any?
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Subharmonic formant arpeggios patch breakdown: a classic Falistri patch!
Arpeggios without an arpeggiator? That’s no magic, just the power of sub-harmonics! We’ve been doing this patch for quite some time now, but we never released a complete, step-by-step tutorial on YouTube. By using Falistri as a frequency divider, we can obtain perfect intervals in the minor scale by sweeping the rising and falling stages. It’s roughly the same principle as Oskar Sala’s Mixturtrautonium!
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Memes aside, let’s make Sandstorm by Darude on our Frap Tools system
Yeah, drones and experimental stuff are fine, but sometimes we only need a four-on-the-floor kick and an uplifting synth lead. Sandstorm by @darude has both so we thought we may give it a go on our Frap Tools system! The modules we mostly used are our Brenso and Cunsa. In this video, Cunsa performs three tasks: a filter for the bass line, a kick drum, and a distortion effect for the lead. Quite flexible!
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Four tips to use CUNSA as a sound source (including ringing and additive synthesis)
What happens when a filtercan self-oscillate and track V/oct flawlessly? Correct, it can become a sine wave oscillator. And when the filter is quadruple? That’s when the fun begins. In today’s video, we will explore four and a half ways to use CUNSA as an oscillator.
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‘Glass sounds‘ analog through-zero FM patch breakdown with Brenso and Cunsa!
As per request, here’s a patch breakdown of this short video: https://youtube.com/shorts/_wP8aJU8gxU
It’s a super crystalline sound thanks to Brenso’s through-zero FM, and we took it a bit further by adding the Cunsa filter, which we didn’t have back when the short clip was filmed.
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Let’s recreate the drums of Oxygene pt. 4 by Jean Michel Jarre on a Frap Tools modular synth!
In this video, we’ll try to emulate the Korg Mini Pops sounds and pattern that Jean Michel Jarre might have used in his iconic Oxygene pt. 4. The video is super blurry so we added some onscreen patch notes. Let us know if we shall continue this silly journey!
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Cutoff FM for talking filters (a cool technique for modular synthesizers)
What if there were other ways of making a vowel-like sound with lowpass filters besides formants?
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Let’s make a modular synth patch in the style of Ryoji Ikeda
Ikeda’s style is famous for its austere structure and meticulously carved sounds. Such precision is achievable in the digital domain, so it may thus sound a bit odd to emulate it with a modular synthesizer, which by definition is “less reliable” than a computer.
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Antonio’s hidden random clock trick for SAPÈL!
Let’s extract a secret random clock output that plays only when the actual random clock is silent. The trick is simple but insanely effective!
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Six interesting timbres with one FALISTRI (a patch-saving hack)
It happened to all of us: we’re in the middle of a patch, and we ran out of complex sound sources. Luckily we have a spare Falistri, so here are six ways to get interesting timbres out of it!
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