results of the tempo experiment
2004-06-08 by spaceanimals
I took a regular generic synth patch with some sustain. Set the arpegiator tempo at 120 bpm, set the tempo delay to 3/8. Then I set LFO 1 to 240 bpm (sample and hold)and set it to modulate the filter (bandpass) and the synch pitch. I then set LFO 2 to 60 bpm had it modulate the FM and the pulse width.So if you play a five note chord, you have the arpegiator playing in 5/4, the echo playing triplets, and the LFOs doing their thing. Sounded okay, but not maniacal enough. So I layered another patch, this one with a real fast sample and hold LFO (360 bpm) controling a high pass filter, with a real slow (30 bpm) LFO2 controling FM. Then I set the Free eg to go for 2 bars alternating pattern (by ear-I'll try to adjust it on the AN1X edit later)to control white noise and ring modulation, and turned the feedback way up on the delay. I had no idea a synthesizer could get that out of control.It sounds almost like an industrial machine, with little snippets of odd constantly changing tones percolating through it. The cats hated it. Rainbow Jimmy