From the course: Learning Modular Synthesis
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Sine waves and drum sounds
From the course: Learning Modular Synthesis
Sine waves and drum sounds
- Now, we're going to explore the sine wave, very special wave form, because, in theory, it has only one harmonic, the fundamental. That purity makes it particularly well-suited for things like frequency modulation, and amplitude modulation. I will explore both of those in the next chapter. It also has made the sine wave very popular for dance drum sounds, that low subsonic kick most of us know, and also those cheesy, do do do, tom-toms we had to live through back in the disco era. Well, in this movie, we're going to explore making those drum sounds, but, also, we're going to start diving into control voltage processors, and other tricks in the modular system to make a module do things it wasn't necessarily designed to do. Sine waves are actually very difficult to produce with analog circuitry. Therefore, a lot of analog oscillators don't feature since waves. You're actually more likely to find them on the digital modules, such as our braids, and our disting. And, even then, it's not…
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Patching a typical synthesizer “voice”9m 3s
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Tuning voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs)8m 48s
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The basic analog waveforms6m 23s
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Sine waves and drum sounds8m 36s
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Digital wavetable oscillators10m 19s
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The voltage controlled low-pass filter (VCF)8m 30s
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The difference between filter slopes7m 45s
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Filter resonance (feedback)7m 50s
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Other common filter modes (HP, BP, and Notch)9m 13s
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Envelope types (ADSR, AD, AR, and DADSR)8m 44s
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Linear vs. exponential envelope shapes7m 59s
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Low-frequency oscillator (LFO) waveshapes4m 14s
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Pulse width modulation (PWM)3m 7s
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Vibrato with LFO sync and delay4m 30s
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Tremolo and voltage-controlled amplifiers (VCAs)4m 52s
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Some alternate modulation sources4m 13s
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