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Dronetic 

 

A droning synth using massed quantum square wave oscillators. 
Includes many presets, for beautiful, spacey, or noisy drones, on top of which you can play 
your own melodies 

 
 
 

            ==== Audio Flow Diagram for the Dronetic Synth  ==== 

 
 
        -------------      -----------------        ------------- 
        |  Drone 0  | ---> | Stereo Panner |  <---  |  Drone 1  | 
        -------------      -----------------        ------------- 
                                 |   | 
                                 |   | 
                                 v   v 
                              ----------- 
          [left audio]  <---  |  Mixer  |  ---> [right audio] 
                              ----------- 
                                   ^ 
                                   | 
                                   | 
                            ---------------- 
                            |  Lead Voice  | 
                            ---------------- 
 
 
 
 
  
 
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                    ==== Diagram of the Drone Voice ==== 

 
 
      ----------------------                  
      | Oscillator Section | --> AutoWah --> Gain --> [output] 
      ----------------------                                            
             

 

 

Summary of Contents for Dronetic

Page 1: ...s many presets for beautiful spacey or noisy drones on top of which you can play your own melodies Audio Flow Diagram for the Dronetic Synth Drone 0 Stereo Panner Drone 1 v v left audio Mixer right audio Lead Voice Diagram of the Drone Voice Oscillator Section AutoWah Gain output ...

Page 2: ...ral periods Osc 1 each osc can be notes switched on or off output route output is combined to Osc 2 current Osc Transpose semi tones to transpose note Osc 3 Freeze ignore note input Pulse Width set pulse width for all osc select current Osc follows note input with transposition unless Freeze ...

Page 3: ...played by the lead voice that note is also routed to each drone The drone will then either ignore the note because Freeze is enabled see diagram for Drone Oscillator Section above or it will play the note transposed by the number of semi tones specified by Transpose using its currently selected oscillator Each preset pre determines whether note input is frozen and what the selected oscillator is f...

Page 4: ...an be in one of 3 states OFF ON BLINKING The LEDs indicate what parameters the pots control red LED blue LED top POT bot POT OFF OFF autowah 0 FREQ autowah 0 DEPTH ON OFF autowah 1 FREQ autowah 1 DEPTH BLINK OFF panning FREQ panning DEPTH OFF ON autowah 0 CUTOFF autowah 1 CUTOFF ON ON drone 0 PULSE WIDTH drone 1 PULSE WIDTH BLINK ON drone 0 TRANSPOSE drone 1 TRANSPOSE OFF BLINK lead ATTACK lead DE...

Page 5: ... voices for that preset will begin to play The presets are as follows Key Name Performance Notes C Borea ambient play in E minor A D Crystal ambient play in D minor Bb major E Eire ambient play in C major F Faroe ambient play in D major G Oslo ambient play in C major A Riven caustic hold notes then slide finger for pitch bend B Cerebus caustic ...

Page 6: ...ixth 8 5 Major Sixth 5 3 Minor Seventh 9 5 Major Seventh 15 8 Octave 2 1 Dronetic uses quantum square wave oscillators which can only be set to frequencies which have integral wavelengths The frequencies produced by these oscillators conform more closely to a scale in Harmonic Tuning than one in Equal Temperament But why does the C key play an F The short answer is that on the ArduTouch whose audi...

Page 7: ...7 Types of button presses Tap quickly tap a button Press long press a button Double Tap quickly double tap a button ...

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