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DiGiTAL Patch Pack Adding Waves

My next Preset Patch Ableton Live Pack for DiGiTAL by Max for Cats. It utilizes additive, frequency modulation, wavetable and subtractive synthesis to create one-of-a-kind sounds you’ll be hard-pressed to produce otherwise. This will be my follow-up to my Amazing Noise’s Dark Synth Entropic Pack which has been hugely successful; both in downloads/sales & the positive messages/emails I’ve received from musicians, producers (bedroom and pro) and engineers. All your super-kind messages and extra contributions, even to free software, have relit a fire in my belly to continue to offer up some of the most next-level, far-out deeply-programmed synthesizers out there! I am titling this DiGiTAL Patch Pack “Adding Waves.” It should be out in a week or so... I will email all my current customers when it’s done.

FM Thug is a highly-aggressive polyphonic synthesizer capable of some of the gnarliest sounds you'll ever hear. It uses the hybrid-combination of FM & the highly experimental Phase-bashed Packet synthesis created by Miller Puckette. He wrote a detailed thesis paper on this type of synthesis. It is extremely complex.

As Puckette states "Phase-bashed packet synthesis is a four-step process (Figure 1. First, a natural sound is recorded. Next, and still prior to synthesis, the recording must be `phase bashed' to yield a series of single waveforms, laid out end to end. In the third step (`resynthesis'), the packets are arranged at a desired period to synthesize a pitched sound. Finally, post-processing can effect frequency shifts and/or modulate the signal to make it unvoiced... The preliminary steps, recording and phase bashing, are as described earlier [PuckettePuckette2005]. The result is a concatenation of wavetables (which may be stored as a soundfile between sessions), consisting of phase-aligned packets laid end to end. Typical packet sizes range from 512 to 2048 samples, with the usual tradeoff between time and frequency resolutions."

SIXs modular synthesizer & effects unit for OSCiLLOT. Free DL on Gumroad.com. 

The OSCiLLOT Build & Blog

Series/Device(s) 2

SIXs is a 6 Oscillator/VCA/ADSR Monosynth inspired by Dr. Bob Moog’s modular systems. There is also an accompanying modular Effects Unit comprised of a Chorus, Phaser, Delay, FilterBank, AD envelopes and LFOs triggered by an Audio-2-Trigger module. It sounds excellent right on top of SIXs or it can be used as a Send.

The last Device I built, Problems, was a West-Coast synthesis inspired source of uncertainty, Ratchet-laden dual drum machine/sequencer. It was definitely a bizarre instrument to say the least. In this series I wanted to build a synthesizer that was totally useable to any player, producer, enthusiast… whoever. So SIXs was born. A “traditional” East Coast style, subtractive monosynth. It uses 6 oscillators, envelope generators and voltage controlled amplifiers. You can see where the name comes from. It was inspired by the Moog System 55 and Keith Emerson’s Moog modular. I used a lot pics, specs and info from the vast database on the web. There is so much information out there. Going into this I kept on getting more and more stoked as I built this thing because it started to sound really gnarly. The more small CV tweaks and LFO speeds I messed with the better each patch got. OSCiLLOT is an amazing platform. Cannot stress that enough. I was able to load up my paid for softsynths and compare it to this thing and SIXs can definitely hang. It sounds huge. Knew it was going to sound big but I had no idea how big! So I designed 7 patches that come along with this Device. Each one kind of shows-off an angle of the synth. This thing can be used for Leads and Bass-Lines. That’s obvious. It can also do wilder sounds used for Effects and Noise (each Oscillator B has a Noise source built into it). The cool thing about OSCiLLOT is it’s fun to design and build in. It has got so many modules… the possibilities are pretty much limitless. It’s limited only to the builder’s imagination. And in saying that I encourage everyone who downloads SIXs to add-on their own modules and make their own patches and throw them up on the Cloud. I hope this synth is useful to some artist or producer out there. I ran it up against Arturia’s Modular-V, u-he’s Bazille and a few of Native Instrument’s Reaktor synths like Monark. The thing definitely has some balls to it. Especially when you de-tune the oscillators and add some modulation. I used the Ladder filter as well, to get as close to that Moog sound as possible. I also built an Effects Unit to go along with SIXs. It contains a 3 Band Chorus, 8 Stage Phaser, Simple Delay and FilterBank along with AD envelope generators and an LFO. The mod-sources are triggered by the incoming sound-signal via an Audio-to-Trigger module which can be set within a range from 1 to 100. This Effects Unit sounds excellent as a Send for SIXs or right in its chain. I used the same Effects Moog did, only OSCiLLOT style. My goal was to design and build an OSCiLLOT version of a Moog Modular and SIXs definitely did not disappoint me. It sounds massive. I only hope people can be inspired by it and build upon it. I really hope some people can put it to good use. I hope you have as much fun playing/tweaking/modding the thing as I had building it. Have fun! Synth-On!!!

Peace,

Bobby Shipe

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