UGGYBUGGY
By wangus on March 22, 2026 10:47 pm
my cat looks like this
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m8, all synthesized except for tom sample, and me saying "doo" .
i spent hours futzing around with bass patches till i got this one.
the rasp is NBP with high resonance so it's tonal, modulating a ratio-0 SAW. so think of the SAW then as a lookup table. if I set SNC phase right, the NBP tone just wiggles along the slope of the saw—it's almost like a thruput. but if I gradually turn up the NBP volume, eventually the noise just barely crosses the wraparound of the saw. so we get a rasp that's vaguely tied to the tone. Then the other two operators are a typical FM setup. the touchscreen X/Y controlled the volume of each half of the patch, and i twiddled it live. other elements of the patch's character: POST W[1 or 2 i forget and don't feel like checking], and a high-resonance bandstop that's modulated not by an envelope but by a coarse table, so it's like a steppy envelope. initially i was going for 303-but-different but then it evolved to this.
then it's just some funny percussion and a bit of harmony/melody. i had sat too long uninspired with the bass patch twiddling, so the rest is just tossed together, but it's OK.
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