MOTM

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Wood wrote:
> around with my modules and everything seems to work ok. I have built the 420 Filter, 800 EG, and 190
> VCA so far. The 800 seems to need a pretty slow frequency trigger/gate to really have much affect on

That's enough for some serious kick :) Put the filter into self res, and 
drop the frequency low. Now it's a sinewave oscillator, which we're going 
to change the pitch on using an EG. Then use the 909 (I use an 808) to 
trigger the gate on the 800. Set the attack and decay to nothing, the 
sustain to around mid, and the release to taste.

With no sustain and release you will only here sound for the length of the 
gate trigger. Which is almost nothing ;)

The positive output from the 800 goes into FM1 on the 420, adjust FM1 to 
taste. By playing with the attack, hold, and release times on the 800 and 
the FM1 on the filter you can get an amazing array of kicks, everything 
from heavy hip-hop type booms to no-hope-for-mankinds-future psytrance 
death kicks. Play around. Get a feel for how different parameters change 
different aspects of the sound.

> I am doing. Also, what do you all think is a good next piece? I was thinking the 300 VCO would be the
> logical choice but I am open to suggestion in this regard as well, maybe I should get another 800 or
> another filter before I get the 300? Thanks in advance for any helpful words you may have.

Two 300s, not one. You'll thank me later. 300's have the sync jack.  Then 
the 440, which (I believe) is Paul's best filter. It's the one I use the 
most anyway, I have 2 of those. Oh, and a 910, which I use in every patch 
;)

--mikes