[sdiy] Ian's Chaos Modules

[Dan Snazelle]

Well I had quite a night last night....staying up till 5am with nothing but me and my (newly) fine tuned modular.

(i dont get much sdiy time lately with the new baby)

anyway.

Due to working on the audio ark for so long i HAD built a few chaos modules but never had the chance to fully explore some of the ways of interconnecting them

in the past i had been using them more as individual modulation sources.

anyway...last night i got some amazing stuff going with this setup:

X of jerkster into vco 1. (with cv offset)
Z (i think)  going into the timing input of the T/G/S/H
vco 1 sawtooth going into the input of one half of the T/G/S/H module

the sample and hold output going into the offset CV in off my CGS vco (which allows for negative and positive CV...this is where i was getting some UNREAL effects...by reversing the Sample and Hold Cv source,etc.

i also tried stuff where i muted one of the jerkster outputs and sent one to the cv in of my ssm2044 filter.

the gate and trigger out of the T/G/S/H module were being sent into my adsr.

this was something i had never tried before...having so many interconnections all being controlled by the JERKSTER. such little changes would often make for very large results


so now i have tons of questions!!

1. have many people on here done experiments with multiple chaos modules and if so, could you explain how you set them up?

2. do you tend to get better results at HIGHER or lower RATES?
3. what are you plugging into the MOD ins (of either the Jerkster or the T/G/S/H)?

I dont hear many people mentioning HOW they use these modules. I have always been a big fan but more and more I am starting to feel like the options they open up are truly unique.

with a touch of reverb (or a lot) added even to just the X and Y going to Vco's and the z to the filter, i was getting some amazing SPRING like sounds at high rates.

and on and on.

sorry for the long post but id love to get some more people talking about these.


thanks so much