Guitar Controls Modular Synths Using Maths // Make Dynamic Envelopes Followers and Gates

[@soveriegn777]

*_Nice!_* 😎👍 This is awesome, dude! Thanks! From someone who knows absolutely diddly about synths; This is super informative🫡 HE'LL YE'AH

[@FrederickFoxtrott]

Thank you! It's always hard to find a good balance between informative and brevity/conciseness. Now I just need to find a personality, ;) . But I really love that patch and knew I had to make a video about it.

[@soveriegn777]

@@FrederickFoxtrott Glad that you did! And I like your personality, but how cool would a sidekick be!!?!

[@FrederickFoxtrott]

​@@soveriegn777 So radical!

[@emilyharpist]

THIS SOUNDS AMAZING!!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@FrederickFoxtrott]

Thank you Emily! I am so glad you like it. Rich and complex. I’m really glad we worked this one out.

[@garaughty]

Lovely work on this Fred !

[@FrederickFoxtrott]

Thanks Marti! We're just scratching the surface of whats possible.

[@btptpt]

Great video!

[@FrederickFoxtrott]

Very nice of you to say! Thank you for watching!

[@dougbeacon9760]

now this is epic

[@FrederickFoxtrott]

Now that's the spirit! ❤

[@PiotrGarbaczonek]

🔥🔥🔥

[@FrederickFoxtrott]

🙏

[@christopherwilliams375]

Super cool patch. I have a couple of questions: I’m unclear how the EOR Gate is working with Scales. Normally, when a gate or trigger is used the quantizer should only quantize a new note with each rising edge of a new gate or trigger, yet you’re getting continuous quantization with a single gate. How are you getting continuous quantization from a single gate? Does Scales have a function that will quantize continuously as long as there’s a high gate? I don’t use Scales (I use uO_C Quantermain), but I did peruse the manual and it doesn’t seem to function that way. How are you getting the space between your attack on the guitar, and when the Plaits is heard (I’m not worried about the Rings/Clouds part yet)? The Rise on Maths is set to full CCW, which means the Maths envelope to your VCA should be near instantaneously at its highest point once you attack, and the corresponding gate to Scales should also be near instantaneous. Is it simply a function of taking your original sound into Maths from a delay? It is a function of how Plaits works when not using a direct gate input?

[@FrederickFoxtrott]

Thanks for the question! I posted this response elsewhere, but I def think its worth addressing here too: The delay is a function of the 'End of Rise' gate out (EOR) produced by the guitar audio through channel 1 of Maths. The unity out is used as the envelope for the Plaits VCO that changes pitch in-key with every strum. The quantizer, Scales, does not simply continuously output pitch values. You'll note that there is a 'Trigger' cv in, which is where the 'End of Rise' gate is patched. So only after the peak of the guitar audio does the gate allow new pitches to be drawn from Scales. So, it will hold the pitch until the audio begins to close on the envelope and then it toggles the new pitch for the next strum and toggles the voice coming out of Rings. The Wogglebug sample and hold is patched into Scales and continuously toggles the pitch quantized to the key of G. When you put a cable into the 'Toggle' cv in, it overrides the continuous toggling of the good old sample and hold blasting out of the Wogglebug. Now, you can input a gate that determines the duration in which the Wogglebug, still continuously toggling the pitch, is allowed to modulate. Maths channel 1's side function is 'End of Rise,' which is the gate used to trigger Scales. This also accounts for the delay effect discussed above. Plaits actually is sounding instantaneously, it is just a single droning pitch that accompanies the guitar strum. Listen again, you'll hear it. When I strum a chord, let's say C, Plaits will play a G or D, or whatever in-key pitch was toggled by the last strum, remembering from above that the sample and hold from the Wogglebug continuously toggles the pitch in the short duration between the peak of the guitar audio (fairly instantaneous), and the closing of the envelope. This interaction between the envelope and gate on different VCOs, Rings and Plaits, give this patch its awesome quality. I use principals from this patch in a lot of patches. Here is a short I made of a bouncing ball patch: kzbin.infojdhV2ujB_qU Dang I wish that patch went further in the algorithm, I like that one a lot too.

[@fionnagrant6636]

Loved the video with Emily. Thank you for explaining things.

[@fionnagrant6636]

PS Americans say Maths funny. Sorry, I had to mention it. It cracked me up.

[@fionnagrant6636]

Mind you, in New Zealand we say everything funny, so there's that.

[@fionnagrant6636]

I really enjoyed the finished piece of music. Thanks again for sharing.

[@FrederickFoxtrott]

@@fionnagrant6636 You got it! Now I’m dying to hear how New Zealanders say it!!!!

[@fionnagrant6636]

@@FrederickFoxtrott to me Americans sound like they are saying it with a "z" at the end. Sort of like you're saying "mathz" or "ma-thes". We say Maths instead of Math so we say it like Math but plural with an "s" sound at the end.

[@antkn33]

Wut.