The Bi-N-Tic is just an amazing device. Technically it is a type of
filter, but calling it a filter elicits the wrong association with
typical analog modular filters (high, low, and band pass). It doesn't
sound anything like those. And you can't use it like those. You need
to play with all of the settings interactively to get the best results.
I made use of the Bi-N-Tic in a performance last month, which I've
described here, and which you can listen to:
http://pugix.com/synth/megahz-festival-2008/
The piece is called Megahz Cross Product. And here's the performance on
You Tube. Beware, the sound recorded by the video camera isn't as good
as the MP3 that I recorded off my mixer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSNfd-TltPM
<file:///E:/oct-nov-2008/mantra-1.mp3>
The video shows me fiddling with knobs during the mostly-automatic
patch. The Bi-N-Tic is in the upper left corner. About 1:40 in you'll
see me fiddling with the Bi-N-Tic. Part of the fun there was that I
patched the Fritz Jerkster Chaos
(http://pugix.com/synth/fritz-jerkster-chaos/) into the Bi-N-Tic FM
input, and some of the fiddling was with the FM attenuator. I mixed in
the Bi-N-Tic (lower right knob fiddling on the MOTM-440 input mixer)
when I wanted extra wildness.
Richard Brewster
casperelectronics wrote:
filter, but calling it a filter elicits the wrong association with
typical analog modular filters (high, low, and band pass). It doesn't
sound anything like those. And you can't use it like those. You need
to play with all of the settings interactively to get the best results.
I made use of the Bi-N-Tic in a performance last month, which I've
described here, and which you can listen to:
http://pugix.com/synth/megahz-festival-2008/
The piece is called Megahz Cross Product. And here's the performance on
You Tube. Beware, the sound recorded by the video camera isn't as good
as the MP3 that I recorded off my mixer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSNfd-TltPM
<file:///E:/oct-nov-2008/mantra-1.mp3>
The video shows me fiddling with knobs during the mostly-automatic
patch. The Bi-N-Tic is in the upper left corner. About 1:40 in you'll
see me fiddling with the Bi-N-Tic. Part of the fun there was that I
patched the Fritz Jerkster Chaos
(http://pugix.com/synth/fritz-jerkster-chaos/) into the Bi-N-Tic FM
input, and some of the fiddling was with the FM attenuator. I mixed in
the Bi-N-Tic (lower right knob fiddling on the MOTM-440 input mixer)
when I wanted extra wildness.
Richard Brewster
casperelectronics wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> Sorry to continue the Bi-N-Tic questions. I know there have been a
> lot and I've read them all and I still have a few more.
> I think I got the whole thing working right but I'm not sure, it's a
> weird module (as I'm sure you'll all agree)
> The way it is working now it is really two modules, a filter and a
> VCO, but I don't see (or hear) much connection between the two.
>
> If I turn the coarse and fine tune knobs all the way down, there is
> no oscillator.
> Then if I feed a signal in the IN jack i can get some really nice
> filter cut sweeps using the BANDWIDTH knob and resonance using the
> DAMPER knob. The whole filter sweep is in the last 20% of turn of
> the bandwidth knob.
> As I turn UP the coarse tune, a square osc, mixes into the signal.
> It doesn't effect the filter, it just mixes into the audio path.
> When I turn it up almost beyond the audio range, the osc suddenly
> cuts off.
> Anyway.. maybe this is just how it works? I'd like to talk to
> someone who has built one or two of these so that I know if I should
> work on it some more.
> I really wish there was some kind of CV for filter cut. Am I missing
> something?
> Thanks!!!!
> -pete
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> On Nov 28, 2008, at 9:54 PM, casperelectronics wrote:
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>> Hey Scott,
>> I want to add the wave outputs on my bintic filter but I can't find
>> the info.
>> Do you sell daughter boards/ host schematics for that on your site??
>> Thanks!
>> -pete
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