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4-phase LFO driven mixer

PreviousMulti-head "drum/tape" delayNextEditing tips for fast patch creation

Last updated 1 year ago

I came up with something that I don't think I'd tried before, based slightly on Patreon supporter Mark Davis' mention of the Shepard function. This is somewhat reduced from what I would have liked due to running out of instructions. But it's still pretty unusual as modulations go.

Can you figure out what is going on?

What is going on is that the sine waves are using the 4 mixer channels to fade the various filters in and out. At the same time, the filters' center frequencies are being varied. But those two control signals may come from a different phase of the LFO for each of the 4 filters. You could also connect all of the filter control inputs to a single phase, or anything in between.

Boy this patch just keeps on giving, I tell you

More patches based on this concept

Quick, make a million dollars on a new pedal!

I also created another patch that leaves off the slicers and smoothers so that I can use another independent filter.

I replaced a filter with a chorus whose width varies along with one of the LFOs and added a pitch shift of a fifth up (7 semitones) on another one of the phases. This is a very unusual sound and I am not sure I've heard anything like it. Try also using an interval of 12 semitones (1 octave) in the pitch shift block.

4-phase-filters-002.spcd
4-phase-filters-pitch-chorus.spcd
4-phase-filters-2-pitch-chorus.spcd
4-phase-filters-001.spcd