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Analog and digital delays

Analog and digital delays

From the course: Learning Modular Synthesis

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Analog and digital delays

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- Now let's play around with delay lines, including an old-fashioned analog one as well as a digital one. I'll start a sequence. I just have simple pluck patch with two oscillators going into a mixer going into the low pass gate being plucked by the gate from my arpeggiator. Right now it's going directly to the output, but instead let's take that through our delay line and play around with some different effects we can get out of it. Immediately you hear a change in characters, it's a bit of a comb filter. I don't have any modulation going to the delay, as is minimum time, and let's turn up its resonance, its feedback. With a change to the delay time you hear the effect of a comb filter. Really short delays cause the wave form to cancel out some of its harmonics, creating this filtered effect. If I modulate the time of that delay, I add your classic flanger effect. Again, the speed controlled by our LFO down here. More resonance, deeper effect. And once they get longer delays you…

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