Join me for this video packed to the brim with patches that you can apply to LOTS of modules (some of which you may already have) on the use and importance of slopes and function generators. Learning how to use them and the range of things they can do allows them be the backbone of a modular system that will bend into your ideas and provide way more than the simple interface may suggest.

This is also a demo of the new 'ARC' from NANO Modules. A dual slope/function generator with added bipolar VCAs and logic that as you'll see in the video and timing index below - is highly capable of many things!

ARC // https://nano-modules.com/arc/
(it's worth having a look at the visuals for each function on the site - those are great!)


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*TIMING INDEX // CHAPTERS*

Each paragraph is a different patch, for the longer patches with more features or techniques I’ve broken that into sections so you can find and reference anything.


INTRO

00:00 Hello & patch previews
01:56 Function generators and dual slopes (Buchla & Serge)
02:25 ARC feature run down


PATCHES // ENVELOPES

04:52 Envelopes explainer patch
05:15 Envelope basics with function generators
06:14 Curve & shape control - exponential, linear & logarithmic
06:59 Sustain - a hold stage between rise & fall
07:26 Sequencer triggered envelopes
07:55 Envelopes that respond to gate length changes
08:27 Modulating fall (decay) time
09:35 Dynamic envelopes (changing amplitudes)

10:52 Custom 4 stage chained envelopes
12:13 Cross patched 4 stage ping pongs
12:52 Merging envelopes & burst loops
13:51 Time modulated decay bursts

14:15 Two stage dynamic envelopes - getting lost in a dirty filter
14:52 Combining triggered & input slewed envelopes
15:28 Gate level responsive envelopes
15:59 VCA level modulated envelopes
16:24 Accent patterns to trigger full peak envelopes


PATCHES // LFOs (with a touch of audio rate VCO action)

16:46 LFO basics
17:57 Re-triggered LFOs (hard sync)
18:28 Rate modulation for speed ramps
19:44 Toggled LFO wobbles
20:20 LFO level modulation

21:04 Classic fading/delayed LFOs (vibrato swells)

23:03 Toggled looping
23:59 A wobble burst generator in your envelope streams
24:25 Adding gate input slewed envelopes - a modulation threesome

25:09 Dual LFO MAX & MIN as a stereo modulator

26:33 ARC as a VCO
27:39 Rise & fall pulse outs with PWM
27:56 Dual VCO FM
28:31 Dual VCO AM (VCA amplitude mod)
28:59 Audio rate triggers - hard sync!


PATCHES // SIGNAL PROCESSING

29:47 Clock manipulation
30:42 Clock divider behaviour
31:12 Trigger delays & wonky timings
31:39 Toggled loops for trigger bursts
31:58 Further clock divisions and CV over divide

33:17 Slew limiting
33:50 Slew basics on gate signals
34:28 Slew on a stepped random signal
35:22 Creating fluctuating random voltages
35:41 Additional X great than Y & sum over dual slew

36:56 Quirky low pass filtering
37:40 Filter frequency modulation
38:10 VCF + VCA patching
3:48 Adding resonance style tones with looping

39:59 Sub octaves & sub harmonic locking
40:55 From PWM to sub harmonics
41:31 CV modulating sub harmonics
42:0 Stereo fleshed out sub patching

42:42 Wild distortion & spitty comparator fuzz
43:16 Rise & fall breqk up
43:50 Oscillating fuzz

44:05 Big mega VCO processing
44:19 LPF style shaping
44:33 Bipolar VCAs for ring modulation
45:13 Looping functions for unique spikes warps and folds
45:55 Adding amp envelope control
46:36 Pitch tracked shaping for consistent tone
47:06 Simple to complex pulse layering



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