So, I'm listening to an excerpt from a recording I made a while ago
strictly on my MOTM rig, with no keyboard, just the UEG and the 320 LFO
as sources, plus the regular oscillators etc.
What's interesting is that there's a chunk where I'm turning a fine-tune
knob, and I actually 'play' the synth this way as it's doing a rythmic
LFO-trigger->ADSR->VCA (or VCF) thing. I'm sure I'm not the first
person to have done this, I bet most of the other regulars here have
done this, but what amazed me is that I was able to actually do this.
I'd never done it before, and I usually landed right on the note,
turning the knob when the previous note had decayed away, pretty
quickly. I'm not very adept at this at all, but I'd also never
practiced before. I figured out how I was able to do it at all, though-
I may not have done 'play the note by turning the knob' thing a lot, but
I ∗have∗ been turning knobs to tune synths, and even moreso, I've been
playing with filters near the point of self-oscillation, hopping around
the harmonic series. All of this knob-time actually gave me a sort of
limited ability to do this stuff, I think.
I have no real interest in advertising my 'music' on this list, but you
can hear what I'm talking about in the first chunk of:
http://overand.dissociative.net/Overand_-_Jam_2_Excerpt_2_Recursive_Delivery_(37-20).mp3
It's not a very good 'work' overall, it's just me farting around with no
plan, and a stereo delay, but it explains what I'm talking about.
I'm just curious if this is a common thing, that as you play your
modular more and more, you develop this odd knob-intuition?