duck 826
By wangus on June 12, 2022 11:59 pm
i had to explore 0-coast + M8 a bit more
unfortunately i left myself zero time again so it's a garbage take. (less than 15mins to record the final take...)
My top goal this week was to do some more interesting 0-coast interaction, and do a non-bass patch. (compared to last week's bass patch that was pretty tame for the 0-coast)
So I sequenced a bassline on the 0-coast, and sampled it into the M8. This is only like the fourth time I've ever used the M8 sampler, and the first time in a "stem-like" manner. I've tended to avoid this scale of resampling outside of the OP-1, because it's committal and on a less powerful sampler, it's hard to make adjustments after the fact. But the M8 has such instant capability to totally transform samples, so I should definitely keep trying this. (here, I just sliced the sample into single bars, and called them in sequence, sometimes applying some volume-lane chopping)
Then some drums. I was originally picturing a Justice-esque kit, but am stubborn and wanted to synthesize it, and these drums are what I managed to come up with today. Most fun is the hi-hat, which is the macrosynth _fluted_ engine. I installed the latest M8 beta for the extra FM click modulator function, but couldn't immediately figure out how to use it well.
I finally unpacked and re-set-up my keyboard, so I was able to lay down a goofy chromatic chord progression. Dissonany, crunchy.
Finally, the 0-coast patch. I scrapped a couple ideas before I settled on a patch centered on the slope generator clocked by the main oscillator. With an envelope/oscillator clocked by another, you'd expect some sort of hardsync sound, but the 0-coast's slope generator actually will only re-trigger once it's past the "attack" phase. So dialing up the attack can cause it to hit _undertones_. That was channeled back into main oscillator's waveshaper in some manner, so it ends up a big gnarly sub-harmonic cross-modulation sort of deal.
It's super fun to tweak live, and you get a bit of that here, but it's hard to keep it sane (without more practice/takes), so it gets stupid loud at the end. oh well.
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