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Modular Expressiveness ep. 3: Agogic (or, Messing Around with the Clock)
This time we deal with a tricky topic which is often taken for granted: the clock. We will explore a couple of agogic trick that add expressiveness through clock and phase manipulation. Do you play with the clock, or you keep it safe from modulations? Let us know!
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Modular Expressiveness ep. 2: Dynamics
If we think about “depth” in music, we think about amplitude variation, or: dynamics. So today, we’ll continue our journey through modular expressiveness by exploring the many ways we can liven up our melody through amplitude.
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Modular Expressiveness ep. 1: Articulation
Electronic music can be stiff and robotic, but it can also be expressive. Today we start a series of videos about modular expressiveness and we will see a bunch of tricks to add new life to our melodic lines.
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Debunking Polyphony
Today we’ll debunk the myth of polyphony! We want to show that you don’t need many oscillators to create a solid harmonic motion. In fact, you can easily achieve a sense of polyphony with just one oscillator, thanks to some hacks that date back to the Baroque era.
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Melodic FUMANA Feedback!
Who says that feedback is just noise? Today we picked three random Techniques from our website that lead us to a nice and groovy patch – with a lot of FUMANA feedback and an odd sequence on the USTA!
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Varishift and TZFM with USTA and BRENSO
This took a lot! The random Techniques that we pick today brought us back to FALISTRI’s release in 2019, but the toughest part was integrating the Varishift parameter in a meaningful way.
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Ignoring BRENSO for 20 minutes (Sidechain Kick and Sync Lead with FALISTRI)
The random Techniques that we picked today forced us to create a patch with a lot of FALISTRI, but no BRENSO! At the very end of the video, we managed to use it, but not for what you think…
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FUMANA Percussions and Weird FALISTRI Oscillators
We had a hard time fitting TWO percussive patches into ONE FUMANA, but we made it! The most satisfying thing about this patch, though, was FALISTRI’s Force Loop input driven at audio rate. It creates a truly WILD sound! It sounded nice even without a sequencer driving it.
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Clock Madness with FALISTRI
Quite an heterodox use of FALISTRI! We routed USTA’s clock through the green generator and used it as a clock delay. However, since it resets on rest, once it passes a certain rate it becomes a clock divider! We paired it with BRENSO’s integrator and pulse shaper for a vintage arpeggiating patch.
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Ratcheting S&H
Sometimes you can think of USTA’s gate outputs as a modulation source rather than just a stream of impulses to fire some envelopes.
In this patch, we used them to clock SAPÈL’s yellow generator so that one new gate = one new random voltage. We also set the gates to the green color to create a denser rhythm on top of our melody.
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