Grace notes are notes that you play to ornate a melody. Every musical tradition has its own grace notes, so why should we modular players stay away from them?⁠

In Western music you don’t write them as part of the melody: instead, you use tiny notes or symbols on top of it.

Since USTA is the Voltage Score, we want to stick with this concept!⁠

In this Technique, we wrote a plain sequence and used a tiiiiny little envelope patched to the CV A input to add some grace notes here and there through pitch shifting. Happy experimenting!

 

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INGREDIENTS

• 1 USTA
• 1 FALISTRI
• 1 BRENSO
• (Optional) CGM

DIRECTIONS

1. Set up your favorite sequence with the USTA, making sure to leave a spare gate channel.
2. Set some of those gate values to 1 and leave the other ones to 0.
3. Patch the corresponding gate output to a FALISTRI’s trig/gate input.
4. Set FALISTRI’s behavior to Transient and its time scale to Low.
5. Set the Rise knob fully counterclockwise and the Fall knob slightly above (around 7-8 o‘ clock).
6. Patch the attenuverted output to USTA’s CV A or B input.
7. Select the track menu and assign that voltage input to Pitch Shift.
8. Set FALISTRI’s attenuverter slightly past noon.
   Now the gates trig an envelope that creates a very fast pitch shift. If the envelope’s attenuverter is high, you will hear more note. Play with the envelope duration to define the grace note’s speed.