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  • PKMKII
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    21 year ago

    Interesting sound design trick for ethereal chord pads with a wavetable synth: modulate wave scan speed with key/pitch tracking such that higher pitch means faster scan speed. Makes it such that each note’s timbre is always in a slightly different spot/rate than the other notes in the chord. Got the idea from a video on old school 90’s IDM techniques, where they would load one shot, single note samples from a monosynth into a sampler and then use looping/ping-ponging of the sample to play chords. Because it was the days before readily available time stretching each note would run through the sample at a different speed, and I figured pitch modulating wave scan speed would do something similar.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      I do something like this with the Hydrasynth. The 2.0 firmware lets you set modulation values per voice. I thought it was a bit gimmicky at first, but if you set it up to use different wavetables or scan rates per voice, you get some really interesting results.