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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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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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USTA Hold
An effortless technique for the USTA sequencer: while playing, hold Set All and push a CV or gate button while playing. It will keep the value played at that specific moment until you release it!
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Live Patching 9: Noise Oscillators and Polyrhythms with BRENSO, SAPÈL, and USTA
This episode is VERY relaxing! We used SAPÈL’s blue noise to modulate BRENSO’s frequency and add a very soothing lo-fi vibe to our sequence. Then, we blended it with some gates to create a gentle polyrhythm.
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Live Patching 8: Quantized Envelopes with USTA, FALISTRI and BRENSO
We improvised a patch where we used USTA as a quantizer to transform a complex envelope into a rollercoaster of ascending and descending swirls of notes!
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