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Subject: Re: [motm] Re: Some (not uModule) Questions

From: mark@...
Date: 2001-12-06

At 5:44 AM +0000 12/06/01, sucrosemusic wrote:
>
>I think I misdescribed what I was going for, but maybe not... in this
>hypotehtical patch i made, the VCO was maintaining the same
>frequency... it was just that the resonant peak of the filter wasn't
>sliding up in frequency smoothly, it sounded like it was jumping from
>harmonic to harmonic (of the source tone)
>
>Anyway the sound I'm going for is a single pitched VCO with a VCF,
>and the sinewave type sound, the resonant sound that VCFs make at
>high resonance... the filter was being swept smoothly by the
>enveloper, but the resonant peak sound hopped.

Are looking for that sound when Neo drops into the Matrix?? Anyway, that
sound can be played with a mod wheel. You assign the mod wheel to the VCF,
crank the resonance to where it just about self-oscillates, hold down one
note, and slowly pull back the wheel pausing as each harmonic rings.