Vintage String Ensemble v2

AlienMachine · Post by **AlienMachine** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 6:37 pm

<a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.planetz.com/Pulsar/files/mod ... .zip"><img src="/forums/images/file_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" File"> File</a> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Type: Synth <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Pulsar Version: Pulsar 3.x <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Requires: Modular 3 _____________________________________ Hello people, finally I made another modular patch. Again, this is a recreation of a vintage string machine of the 70s (Remember the Solina, the Crumar Performer?). Why? because I'm crazy about the sound of those old machines, especially through analog phasers like the Electro Harmonix Small Stone or the Boss PH-1/2.

This patch is more realistic than the first one I posted the past year. First, the chorus section is done by pitch modulating the oscillators, each with its own triangle LFO. Also, there is a random signal generator that you can use to modulate the pitch and the oscillators phase. I choosed Unknow OSCs instead of sawtooth (for the main ones) because with them you can modulate the OSC phase. This can give a realistic "unstable" character to them.

Second, there is a poly filter since, believe or not, is less DSP intensive than the multimode filter of the modular. With a Pulsar 2 you can get 8 voices easily.

Of course, this is not just for string machine sounds, tweaking the presets (or creating new ones) it gives you cool analog sounded synth too (like the preset Brass 2)

I hope you like it.

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Mr Arkadin · Post by **Mr Arkadin** » Mon Mar 17, 2003 7:50 pm

I always love lush phasey strings, well done! In case you haven't read them already there's a couple of articles on synthesising analogue string machine sounds in February and March's issues of Sound On Sound magazine. They also did one years ago explaining how the Solina worked, but I can't find it yet.

FYI, for some reason the Left leg of the output is higher than the Right on some of the presets. Is this fixable?

Mr Arkadin

AlienMachine · Post by **AlienMachine** » Tue Mar 18, 2003 10:47 am

Mmmmm. I think the problem is because the delay attenuates the signal that came from the phaser, even when it is off. I did not have time to check it and I did not notice it before. The solution will be to compensate the volume of the two channels in the micro mixer. Also you can check the pan knobs in the micro mixer.

By the way, thanks for the information, I'm going to buy the magazines when they are available in the US.

Regards,

Alien Machine

siberiansun · Post by **siberiansun** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:26 am

i've always prefered vintage sounding strings above those "two tonnes of butter" ones.
however i only have mod 2 so.... any chance of a mod 2 version?