From the course: Learning Modular Synthesis

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Phase shifting

Phase shifting

- It's common practice to take the output of your modular and run it into your digital audio work station or into a mixer and then external effects. Reverb in particular sounds nice on a modular synth, Something very dense or nice and shimmering. However, several manufacturers make effects units as modules that you can include as part of your system. Once you have that, well, now you've got voltage control and you can start playing around with making it part of your performance. We're going to start with the phase shifter. The effect was very popular from the earliest days of modular synthesis. But first, let me describe this patch. I have oscillators tuned at one octave intervals set to square waves, mixed into the input of a low pass filter, very little resonance, a little bit of fast envelope, changing its color frequency. That's going into our VCA with a bit longer decay and release, and currently, that's going straight to our audio. And I have the gate from our keyboard…

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