Testing grounds
By WahSp on April 19, 2026 4:06 pm
It's another SunVox project!
It's still hard to find time for weekly beats. This week it was also hard to find the inspiration, but I think those two things are somewhat intertwined.
Since I wasn't very inspired to make music, I started building a metamodule on Sunvox that I designed as a kind of 5-voice virtual analog synth. There's a neat trick to get ADSR envelopes that I learned from looking at modules created by someone who goes by Accipiter Nova. The multisynth module allows for some randomization of input values (including pitch, phase, etc.), which allows for some analog-ish drift. It also has the ability to send note information to multiple modules in a round robin fashion.
So, I built a separate metamodule that acts like an analog voice (it has an analog generator as its basis, a filter pro module and then some envelopes to control these), made 5 copies of this to use as 5 voices for the synth, controlled by the multisynth module in that round robin fashion. This basically makes the synth polyphonic. I wired up a lot of multictl modules to be able to control parameters of the different voices simultaneously. The synth is not well-behaved in all respects yet, but I am pretty happy with where I got so far.
Anyway, to test the synth while building it, I had this pattern going. Since I didn't have much inspiration for anything else this week, today I decided to just take that pattern as a basis for my submission - that is why it is called 'testing grounds'. The sounds on this track are all instances of the synth (I think just 4 in total, really). Obviously I added various FX (the SunVox FX can sound really great, by the way!) and I added a reverse cymbal to mark some transitions. The melodies are all pretty simple and static and the track relies on elements fading in and out for its evolution. Automation in SunVox is quite powerful and I have a lot of that going on in this track.
The style was also somewhat inspired by a performance by Caterina Barbieri that I saw recently: Relatively simple melodic patterns and a lot of use of delay and reverb to set the atmosphere.
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. I really loved your submission of this week. Excellent sounds!