The Quilcom Mystery: Hopefully not a mystery to use!
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 3:02 pm
Hello fellow FlowStone addicts!
I had the idea to see what would happen if I had a 16 partial additive synth (plus sub) where each partial could be amplitude modulated by a poly LFO, bipolar for phase inversion. What if each LFO ran at a different frequency and amount? What if the parameters could be randomised? What would 2 sound like in stereo? And so on…
The result of my experiments is manifested in the Quilcom Mystery synth. I focused on making pads and soundscapes for the presets because that seemed to be its natural destiny.
Of course you can make all sorts of pads on any synth, and many synths are very capable of making evolving, moving soundscapes, so this is an exploration of a very specific technique, rather than a do-it-all pad and soundscape maker.
Here’s the YouTube video:
https://youtu.be/sAwvUC8Uf0k
Here’s the download with all the usual stuff in the zip:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5vcdvkx2cmf7r ... 1.zip?dl=0
I had a lot of fun actually playing this and especially on headphones. I hope you do too!
Cheers
Spogg
I had the idea to see what would happen if I had a 16 partial additive synth (plus sub) where each partial could be amplitude modulated by a poly LFO, bipolar for phase inversion. What if each LFO ran at a different frequency and amount? What if the parameters could be randomised? What would 2 sound like in stereo? And so on…
The result of my experiments is manifested in the Quilcom Mystery synth. I focused on making pads and soundscapes for the presets because that seemed to be its natural destiny.
Of course you can make all sorts of pads on any synth, and many synths are very capable of making evolving, moving soundscapes, so this is an exploration of a very specific technique, rather than a do-it-all pad and soundscape maker.
Here’s the YouTube video:
https://youtu.be/sAwvUC8Uf0k
Here’s the download with all the usual stuff in the zip:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5vcdvkx2cmf7r ... 1.zip?dl=0
I had a lot of fun actually playing this and especially on headphones. I hope you do too!
Cheers
Spogg