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offline HIGHLANDER from Israel on 2013-01-01 07:13 [#02446691]
Points: 394 Status: Regular



hello
wondering how to get my bass more 303ish on a modular

guesswork ideas:

3 octaves in each sequence (for example 3 octave range in a
16 note sequence)
portamento switched on/off by separate gate
D env for vca and filter with resonance turned up to taste

what about accent?
theres an article by robin whittle of devilfish fame about
the accent on a 303
but u know what
i dont understand it fully or know how to translate that
theory in a modular patch

discuss...............



 

offline HIGHLANDER from Israel on 2013-01-01 07:15 [#02446692]
Points: 394 Status: Regular



Lyff Acid Edit 1 is a good example yeah?
How to do that accent?
Might have to take a look at that track under a spectrum
analyser later and cheat

Any acid squelchy masters at this site or what yeah?


 

offline dave_g from United Kingdom on 2013-01-03 22:10 [#02446805]
Points: 3372 Status: Lurker



303 has a diode filter which although four pole sounds like
a three pole. This will influence the character somewhat.
(Actually they are trannies connected as diodes but hey -
uber maths geek points ahoy:
http://www.timstinchcombe.co.uk/index.php?pge=diode )

Also note that the waveforms are unlike their textbook
equivalents. View a time domain plot of some open filter
samples to see what I mean.
I'm sure you can get samples off the net or I can possibly
dig some off the Akai if you ask nicely.

Doesn't accent just add a bit to whatever parameter it is
(resonance?) if active for that step.

Thinking about it why don't you get ReBirth (it's free these
days) and duplicate you simple pattern, etc then try to
correlate your modular to the ReBirth model. As the sounds
converge you should be able to figure it out.
You can record the raw waves too so that have saved me some
effort!

My trick with 303 sounds is to use a gazillion single note
samples with different filter/accent tweaks assigned one per
key. Play your midi and you get different sounds at the same
pitch. Now send pitch bend to set the pitch and by hammering
different notes you get a wicked morphing sound.
Those skilled in the art may appreciate there are other
similar methods to achieve this result.
Note that a sampler is used rather than 303 or a modular.
Of course the fun really begins when the midi seq is doing
the business and I use the multi-outs of the sampler to send
some sounds via reverb, others via different tweakable fx
for even more madness.
I tell a lie, I do use a 303... a SP303 (which I dare say is
better of the two!)



 

offline anirog on 2013-01-19 18:48 [#02447538]
Points: 762 Status: Regular



pressure


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2013-01-19 20:27 [#02447540]
Points: 6531 Status: Addict



>> i dont understand it fully or know how to translate that
>>> theory in a modular patch
what sort of modular ?
are you talking about the thing where the guy says that
rising&rising consecutive accents is what makes it sound
like the sexy cries of an animal in distress?


 


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