Any thoughts ModMen ?
ps: along the way I discovered the joy of a bpm-synced amplitude modifier
which a natural rolling feel...Pitch modulated drum synth
I'm trying to modulate the pitch of a drum synth module. I've tried sending the output of the drum synth to a PitchModifierB and having a bpm-synced LFO modulate the pitch, but I get nothing except screech. I then tried having the PitchMod signal modulate the drum synth signal (with no PitchMod freq in), but this did nothing either. I also tried many less obvious and weird variations too..
Any thoughts ModMen ?
ps: along the way I discovered the joy of a bpm-synced amplitude modifier which a natural rolling feel...
Any thoughts ModMen ?
ps: along the way I discovered the joy of a bpm-synced amplitude modifier
which a natural rolling feel...you would need a freq input (which there aren't, on any of the drum modules) to be able to vary the pitch. you probobly allready figured that out, though.
the only thing you could do is to build whatever drum modules you were using with sine oscillators, filtered noise, pitch modifiers, vcas, simple envelopes...etc. then you would have the ability to modulate the pitch by whatever means you want.
the drum modules take up quite a bit of dsp by themselves. it would be interesting to find out if cludging together a collection of existing modules that comparitively had the same capabilities as a single drum module (or less), but any more or less dsp.
i find i do this quite a bit, i.e. use a collection of modules to give me a feature or function not present or missing in a module.
can get kinda messy, and isn't exactly the most dsp efficient. but still its kinda cool one can use the modular as sort of a lego system and build all kinds of things not intentioned. i think being able to enclose a group of modules into one small module would work out nicely.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: castol on 2002-03-10 11:43 ]</font>
the only thing you could do is to build whatever drum modules you were using with sine oscillators, filtered noise, pitch modifiers, vcas, simple envelopes...etc. then you would have the ability to modulate the pitch by whatever means you want.
the drum modules take up quite a bit of dsp by themselves. it would be interesting to find out if cludging together a collection of existing modules that comparitively had the same capabilities as a single drum module (or less), but any more or less dsp.
i find i do this quite a bit, i.e. use a collection of modules to give me a feature or function not present or missing in a module.
can get kinda messy, and isn't exactly the most dsp efficient. but still its kinda cool one can use the modular as sort of a lego system and build all kinds of things not intentioned. i think being able to enclose a group of modules into one small module would work out nicely.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: castol on 2002-03-10 11:43 ]</font>
Yes, the drum synth certainly lacks the inputs to be able to do this easily but there's almost always a workaround if you dig deep enough.
I have tried contructing this with "normal" osciallators, but you need so mnay modules it all gets a bit ridiculous - especially since you may be able to finally get the exact sound you want, but certainly not the range of sound needed to justify the screen real estate and DSP load...
I'll keep poking around.
And hey, that's half the fun
I have tried contructing this with "normal" osciallators, but you need so mnay modules it all gets a bit ridiculous - especially since you may be able to finally get the exact sound you want, but certainly not the range of sound needed to justify the screen real estate and DSP load...
I'll keep poking around.
And hey, that's half the fun
Anyway, great idea Spirit! I'd think you'll have to hand build all the modules too... Any luck yet?