Planet Z

<a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.planetz.com/Pulsar/files/modular/rp-strontium90.zip"><img src="/forums/images/file_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" File"> File</a><BR> <a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.planetz.com/Pulsar/files/modular/strontium90.mp3"><img src="/forums/images/listen_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" Sound Example"> Sound Example</a><BR> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Type: drum machine<BR> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Pulsar Version: Pulsar 3.x<BR> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Requires: ModIII<BR> _____________________________________<BR><BR> Here's my first ModularIII patch. It uses quite a few of the new modules including pitch shift delay, long delay, and frequency divider.

When listening to the presets give the long delays a moment to loop so you can hear the full effect.

Although it uses only two drum synth modules it often sounds like four or more thanks to the modulation. Definitely not our average drum sound

The mixer gives the original and processed sound of each drum synth. These are routed to a single out for immediate convenience, but you can easily just assign the four signals to their own output for individual processing. With a little reverb some of these can assume gigantic industrial size, or weird ambient.

It's also a lot of fun just to twiddle the knobs on a simple pattern and see how radically things can change !

Well, at least that's what I think

Hope you like it.

INSTRUCTIONS:
* Each drum synth has identical circuitry.
* One feed (of each drum synth) goes to the long delay, then to the mixer. The speed of each long delay is governed by the first "frequency divider" speed underneath the delay.
* Another feed goes to the pitch delat, then a multimode filter, then to the mixer.
* Each multimode filter has two modulators. The first is from the LFO directly beneath. The second is from the other drum synth's LFO. The speed of the LFO is regulated by the song BPM, but is also effected by the frequency divider directly below. keep to even numbers for predictable results.
* Both pitch shift delays are modulated by the LFO under the pattern sequencer. The frequency-multplier directly under the LFO changes the speed.
* Delay time of the pitch shift delay is controlled by the last value in the frequency divider above the module.
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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Spirit on 2002-11-30 21:46 ]</font>

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Spirit on 2002-12-01 10:59 ]</font><BR><BR><a name="planetz-fileimage"></a><IMG SRC="http://www.planetz.com/Pulsar/files/modular/strontium-90.jpg" BORDER="0">

Hi Spirit , that are very nice drums you´ve made, the delay section works very well and give the drums a nice rythm. I must ask you about the "theRuhr" preset, we have a river near dortmund, where I life, called The Ruhr, but I think you meant something other,or?

BTW: very strange that you use modIII modules in a mod2 empty modular, I was missing the preset file and saw that they are modII like in the patch already.

Anyway, a nice first patch from you, thank you.


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: ChrisWerner on 2002-12-02 08:15 ]</font>

Thanks for the comments Chris.

Yes I did mean The Ruhr, but not so much the river as the industrial region in general. I thought that patch had a heavy industrial feel. The Ruhr is world-famous as a classic industrial zone. When I was in Germany I wanted to cruise through that part, but my friends weren't so keen. Ah well, maybe next time.

And yes, it was a bit odd dropping ModIII modules into an old frame. When I make Modular devices I usually just take an older device and rip things out and drop things in rather than making it all from the start every time.

But by the time I realised this I had gone too far Still, doesn't make much difference.





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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Spirit on 2002-12-02 08:45 ]</font>

yes, the Ruhr is very nice, once you are in germany again, write me an E-mail before and I will invite you to a canoe trip on the Ruhr, I know some edges that a very nice and very inspiring.