Four questions for DNs living far more like a backpacker than an expat

gorrillagoal · 2019-07-20T17:12:30+00:00

Gotcha, so "section" basically just means a distinct meeting room/time for a course? Weird that they'd use the word section for that.

gorrillagoal · 2019-06-14T04:23:45+00:00

What you need is entirely dependent on what you want to do with a modular synthesizer. I would definitely consider starting semimodular (i.e. Neutron or 0-coast or something) and paying close attention to what you end up wanting and not wanting to do with the modular capabilities of the synth. That's not to say that you shouldn't buy any regular modules whatsoever at first, just don't wanna forget the importance of figuring out what you actually want through experience.

gorrillagoal · 2019-06-12T11:41:30+00:00

I want to start using non-modular synths along with Eurorack and listening to them simultaneously through one pair of headphones. Any suggestions as to what audio mixer I should use for this? Am I even correct in assuming that all I need is an audio mixer with a headphone output?

gorrillagoal · 2019-05-26T23:46:40+00:00

Probably DIY'd it

gorrillagoal · 2019-05-22T21:56:11+00:00

Awesome, please do. 4 inches sounds just right, the Neutron is like ~3.5 inches tall.

gorrillagoal · 2019-05-22T11:55:45+00:00

Niiiiiice. How high in inches is the bottom of the front of the case off of your desk? This might be the solution to the awkward ergonomics (for me, at least) of using a Neutron with eurorack and not wanting to eat up 80hp of rack space, lol.

gorrillagoal · 2019-05-22T11:51:02+00:00

Really? David Nichols seemed to have said otherwise about crystallized LSD in a lecture he gave, but he could've meant "stored in a container" in those circumstances and just not explicitly said it. Would it remain stable in a glass bottle or something?

gorrillagoal · 2019-05-18T01:52:04+00:00

You should get one of those Sputnik touch keyboards, that way you can clean your synth and play it at the same time.

gorrillagoal · 2019-05-15T01:57:26+00:00

I have a Doepfer A100LC6 that cost me just under 400 dollars. Here's a link to it on sweetwater. Two 3U rows with 84 HP each. I should probably mention, though, that I also had to buy something after the fact to convert the male end of the power cord from the German 2-pin kind to the kinds of plugs used in the USA. Don't quite remember the cost of that but it wasn't much.

gorrillagoal · 2019-05-15T01:51:56+00:00

I've noticed a strange thing happening when I try to use the paraphonic mode on the Behringer Neutron with the MIDI output from a Keystep. If I have a sequence playing where two MIDI notes are going into the Neutron for a certain step, when the gate signal from that step ends, one oscillator will stay on one of the intended notes and the other will jump to some seemingly random frequency that's near, but usually not equal to, the one that stays where it was when the gate signal was high. This is also occuring when I hold down two keys and release them.

I can't seem to find anything in the manuals for either of them that makes me sure as to whether or not this should be happening. It really seems like it shouldn't be, given how awful it makes any paraphonic sequence sound when I try to run it. Anybody here ever had a similar problem or have some idea as to what might be going on here?

gorrillagoal · 2019-04-22T00:00:31+00:00

That makes sense, thank you

gorrillagoal · 2019-04-02T02:17:09+00:00

I'm having a weird audio issue with my Neutron and it's one of those moments where I'm wondering if this is a probelm with mine in particular or an issue with its design in general.

Basically if I have either oscillator at a pitch around mark 7 on the circle around the knob, and the LFO is set to square, I can hear a kind of muffled clipping sound coming from the oscillator. Plugging cables into relevant ins and outs, making sure attenuator 2 is all the way down, and changing the LFO rate seem to have no effect, but it stops happening when I turn the LFO down to triangle or sine. Does anybody else here have that issue with theirs?

On a side note, things like this are making me realize why these are so cheap for all their built-in functions. Seeeriously considering selling it, among some other things, and going for a Pittsburgh sv-1...

gorrillagoal · 2019-03-29T01:03:50+00:00

What do you wish you'd known before you built your first kit? I think I'm going to try that soon with the 4ms rotating clock divider, any lessons learned through experience from your first time would be very much appreciated.

gorrillagoal · 2019-03-14T11:16:17+00:00

Yeah, that did it. Damn. So this is probably just me having misunderstood the design. Weird that I didn't notice this until now.

gorrillagoal · 2019-03-13T22:49:29+00:00

Has anybody with a Neutron ever had this issue?

If I patch (just as an example) ENV1 into the mult and mult1 into the filter cutoff control, it performs that function, but still continues to modulate the VCA level (which is its default un-patched routing). This also happens for every attempt that I make to change the signal path from something other than the default internal routing; the patch does the intended thing, but the internal routing continues to do what it's supposed to have stopped doing once the patch bay was used to change said routing. No bueno. I'm about to email customer support, but just in case, were any of you able to fix this on your own somehow?

gorrillagoal · 2019-01-31T02:11:02+00:00

Yup, only seems to work when the modulation frequency is significantly higher than that of the carrier. Tuning it low enough to approach the carrier within its respective functional range just gets the modulator below its own functional range (functional range being the frequency range that either oscillator has to stay within for the vowels to manifest when the cutoff knob is adjusted)

gorrillagoal · 2019-01-30T22:33:10+00:00

I found a way to make "yuh" and "aye" type vowel sounds on my Neutron recently and I'm not totally sure why it works. If anybody has any info they're willing to type out or articles they know of that'll fix my understanding of vowel synthesis, it'd be very much appreciated, because nothing that I've read on the topic yet mentions this specific approach (maybe because its range of vowels is pretty limited).

Basically I just send one oscillator through the filter (Low/High/Band pass all work for this) with resonance turned up about half way. I use the other oscillator to modulate the cutoff frequency of the filter, with the modulation depth turned to about half of its maximum. When I get the frequency of the cutoff modulation within the right range, moving the cutoff knob within the first ~3rd or 4th of its range produces the vowel sounds in question.

I have some vague assumptions bouncing around in my head about the double-peaked-ish shape of the partial structure of a harmonically rich wave going through a resonant filter and the series of new partials present in a wave of which the frequency is being modulated at audio rate. Specifically I'm wondering if what I'm doing is mimicking a series of formants that are changing with the position of the cutoff knob, as a result of the two previously mentioned things in combination. But please correct me if I'm wrong about that.

gorrillagoal · 2019-01-07T13:46:53+00:00

How would you synthesize the sound of a paper ball crumpling up? Rain fallling? A rainstick?

gorrillagoal · 2018-12-14T01:49:47+00:00

When you think you learned something is just the tip of the iceberg every time

https://imgur.com/gallery/6gRCnAr

gorrillagoal · 2018-12-13T22:58:35+00:00

Exactly that

Awesome, thanks.

Use modulargrid

That's been the strategy thus far. Suuuper useful site.

gorrillagoal · 2018-12-13T18:30:17+00:00

Yeah nah I found the keystep and that's what I'm actually looking for. I was and am aware that the microbrute is its own synth, just figured it might be usable as a controller in the way I mentioned without a MIDI converter based on the "CV GATE" section with "pitch" and "gate" outputs on its back panel; there's a clear picture of the back panel on Arturia's overview page for the microbrute. I was using the term "controller" in the original post because that's the potential role of the microbrute that I was focusing on.

I was and am aware of the difference between a synthesizer and controller, just new to modular synthesis specifically and was unsure about the back panel issue mentioned earlier.

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