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Sample & hold (S/H)

Sample & hold (S/H)

(computerized beeping) - Recognize that sound from one too many bad fiction movies? That's the typical sound of a Sample and Hold. A device than can introduce randomness into your patches. Doesn't always have to sound like this, but let's first go through this basic patch, then we'll find some more musical uses for it. In this case, I'm using the Disting again in Sample and Hold mode. In this mode, its output is pure white noise. (static noise) Which as you remember, is a very random signal. You can see that on screen right now. What I'm going to do is take that random voltage and use that as a voltage to sample. How often should I sample it? Well I'm driving not by any old clock. In this case I'm actually using the output of an LFO square wave to say clock, clock, clock. In other words, sample, sample, sample. So, plug this into the oscillator's output. This way I could use the speed of the LFO to decide how fast the sampling is. (computerized tones) And I can use the modulation…

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