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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:04 pm
by sidx
ppl realy need your help
noob in a modular
too hard to make start this hell machine make a sound.Plz someone can give me one start patch with just one osc correctly connected to all required modules for playing a sine from a keyboard =)
thanx a lot

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:18 am
by wayne
welcome sidx :smile:

Try, on the routing window menu, modII/tutorials/tutorial1/Part1, and your'e on your way :smile:

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:27 am
by sidx
gods will save u bro

tutorials are good sure...but ..why is no stepbystep startup manual in the tutorials =(

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:03 am
by at0m
There's a couple of things that are interesting to know. Like what connects where, some signal types:
  • audio: usually red or green, frequency is at samplerate and AC.
  • freq: blue, a DC value, adjusted to the samplerate, so osc outputs the right pitch for the corresponding note. Freq has linear relation to pitch.
  • note: mostly used to control Key Follow, independant of samplerate.
  • gate & esync: MVC usually makes Gate. Esync tells MVC when the gate is closed. Connect MVC gate to the input of and envelope. Typical use: In monophonic patches, shortcut gate and esync, in polyphonic patches let the ADSR tell MVC when it's finished it's envelope cycle. For volume control, connect the envelope's output to a VCA.
  • various mod signals: velocity, aftertouch, envelope, LFO, ... can be used to modulate filter cutoff or other modules with (usually) blue input connectors. Do not connect these to freq inputs of osc unless you really want to.

On a synth start patch in my Mod Folder, I have:
  • MIDI to MVC A
  • MVC Gate connected to it's Esync input
  • MVC's Gate going to an ADSR's Gate input
  • ADSR's Out to Exp VCA
  • VCA to a poly out to Audio Out
  • and then I can start adding osc, filters etc, from which I connect the mix to the free input on the VCA.

To toy around with modular, it's fun just to insert a filter module between it's Audio In and Out, then start adding modulation parameters as it works out: an LFO to cut-off freq, or an MVC with envelope to cut-off freq etc.


That should get you started I hope :smile:

Have fun patchin'!!

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:50 am
by sidx
Great!
one more thing
hard to me understand...VCA - its a part of envelope? like a Amplifier?

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:14 am
by at0m
VCA typically works in conjunction with an envelope.

VCA is 'voltage' control for amplitude. Voltage, let's take any positive signal between 0 and max, like an envelope's output, controls the amplitude of any signal.

So the blue input would be the level control, the green one takes audio.
VCA is just a multiplier really, you could use ringmod too!

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:28 am
by sidx
good
now i feel much better
thanx a lot 2all

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:34 am
by wayne
:cool: :grin:

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:42 am
by at0m
wait 'till you've missed a couple nights sleep :lol:

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:54 am
by Counterparts
sidx wrote:
tutorials are good sure...but ..why is no stepbystep startup manual in the tutorials =(
"Modular 2 Tutorial.pdf" :grin:

Thusly were my first tentative modular steps taken...

'tis very step-by-step.

(Greetings to PZ by the way)

Royston

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:11 am
by sidx
damn i ready to devote all nights for this !

yeah...got the mod2 tutorial.

STFM - this only one right answer was for me =)
thanx

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:11 am
by wayne
...and at0m's tute there is worth a copy&paste folks :grin:

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:30 pm
by sidx
guys
how to make pith modulation? but not with lfo.
I need a "frog" sound u know.Every time when i play note - i want to pitch gonna down with controlled speed.plz help and sorry for incorrect description =(.In my nord lead 3 its a simple operation with a Mod Envelope control.

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:48 pm
by wayne
In your patch, put a pitch modifier between mvc & osc, then use an envelope to bend it :smile:

You may have to use e-sync add if you have multiple envelopes in the patch.

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:40 am
by sidx
envelope u mean simple ADSR module?
ok...will try thanx