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  • Fake Formant Patch

    IDEA A formant filter usually has three resonant bandpass filters with adjustable frequencies. FUMANA does not resonate and its filters have fixed frequencies. But it doesn’t know! Let’s try to see where…
  • Live Patching: USTA and FALISTRI

    IDEA Today we'll create a patch from scratch according to these three Techniques picked at random: 1. Octave Blends; 2. USTA Polymeter 1; 3. Fake Analog AND. INGREDIENTS USTA FALISTRI FUMANA BRENSO…
  • Study for BRENSO and FALISTRI #1

    IDEA During one of our last Workshops, a participant asked for a patch with a deep interconnection of BRENSO and FALISTRI. This is what we came up with during a free, interactive…
  • Fumana Feedback Fest

    IDEA A feedback loop is something beautiful and dangerous. It is a delicate ecosystem that is always on the verge of collapse. Once we can keep it balanced, it becomes an excellent…
  • FUMANA Vocoding

    IDEA The sixteen filters of FUMANA are well laid out on the front panel. What may not be obvious at first glance, however, is that sixteen more filters are laying under the…
  • Interacting Oscillators

    IDEA There are many ways in which a musician can combine two audio sources to get new sounds that are widely different than the original ones. FALISTRI wasn’t born as an oscillator;…
  • Glass Columns

    IDEA Having narrow boundaries often fosters creativity. FALISTRI’s sonic pallette may sound quite limited at first sight, but the raw material can give birth to a lot of unexpected sounds through some…
  • Wobble Bass Effect

    IDEA ‘Why two gates per track?’ We’ve been asked this question quite often, and here’s one of the possible answers! In this patch, Gate A is in ‘Blue’ mode and trigs the…
  • Industrial Noise and Massive Rhythms

    IDEA This industrial groove is created with distorted sounds, metallic noises and massive rhythms coming from the interactions of two Falistri. A cycling envelope is gated by its own division by 16…
  • Arpeggios Without Arpeggiator

    IDEA One of the best ways to foster creativity is to constrain yourself into a small environment and try to get the most out of it: in this case, we show you…