Lissajous curves with no-input mixing board

Less description here than the last few videos because I actually talk a bunch in the video.
Hear my music made with no-input mixing: reubeningall.b...

[@jvml]

awesome stuff! never _truly_ realized nimb had this much depth until now

[@whong09]

Mesmerizing

[@xislost]

Fantastic work mate ! Very inspiring. I hope you keep posting your experiments.

[@Gin-toki]

This is really nice! :) The assymetry come from how the circuit in the mixer clips signals assymetrically. It really depends on how exactly the circuitry is built up and to understand it in depth, you would have to examine the schematic of the mixer aswell as the pedal you use. The reason why some of the patterns seems to be in sync while others rotate slow or fast is due to the visualizing software you use and whatever converts the analog signal to digital. Both of those works in descreete time steps whereas the signal you produce from your NIM system does not. So whenever those two happens to be in sync, the pattern will stay still or rotate very slowly but as soon as they go out of sync again, the pattern begins to move faster. And the ABC like logo you managed to achieve is exactly more angular in shape due to distortion/clipping of the signals, you can even hear it in the signal that it's comprised mostly of squarewave like components. And a little suggestion: You have one channel left unused on the mixer, you could patch another effect pedal up to if from an output of the mixer and creating another feedback path that way :D

[@ReubenIngall]

Thanks! So the still/rotating appearance is similar to the phenomenon of car wheels or helicopter blades spin-rate syncing with the frame-rate of the camera! Maybe I can play around with this by adjusting the frame-rate setting in the software. Yes I often use all the ins/outs through looper+reverb units and such.

[@Gin-toki]

@@ReubenIngall Yes exactly, it's the same phenomenon. And it also happens on analog oscilloscopes, they also have a framerate on their screens which causes these syncing patterns to appear :) I find timebased effects to be really nice for feedback effects. And in that regard I can highly reccomend you check out the eurorack module from "NonLinearCircuits" called "Delay No More" which is a dual delay with cross feedback that can produce a wild array of feedback noises. Some of what it produces does remind a bit of what you get from a NIM sytem.

[@masonmandelin3463]

Future right here

[@robvanden9890]

What software are you using for generating the curve? Is it possible to do this in ableton? I’d love to play around with some shapes from my modular system. Thanks for the video!

[@robvanden9890]

Plotting is probably a more accurate term than generating

[@ReubenIngall]

PrettyScope by Soundemote, and yeah, I run it as a VST within Ableton :)

[@robvanden9890]

@@ReubenIngall thank you! I'll check that out

[@robvanden9890]

@@ReubenIngall it looks like the Soundemote website is down unfortunately

[@ReubenIngall]

@@robvanden9890 oh no it looks like they're not around anymore. If you're on mac, these files could work? www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/a18in4sns80qkhwfpy6r5/h?rlkey=bg75eoqo1cpw4kgsbxsx82hxc&dl=0