Fun with Envelopes | 10
You will hear a longer attack on the filter
envelope, slowly opening the filter up,
but at the same time you’ll notice that
it is raising the
SUB 1 FREQ
of
VCO 2
,
increasing the rate of the sequencers. As
you lengthen the
VCF ATTACK
the clock
will accelerate more slowly.
Since we’re using
VCO 2 SUB 1
as our
clock, our patterns are moving much
quicker than with the internal clock of
Subharmonicon (which is much slower
than the VCOs).
Since the
POLYRHYTHM
section is
comprised of four clock dividers, which
slow down clock signals, we can turn
down the overall clock rate simply by
rotating
RHYTHM 1
counterclockwise.
This gives us a slower clock rate that still
accelerates based on the acceleration time
set by
VCF ATTACK
.
MAKE THIS CONNECTION
We can exaggerate this effect even further
by using the second sub-oscillator of
VCO
2
to stop and start the sequencer. Patch
the
VCO 2 SUB 2
output to the
PLAY
input.
Turn down
VCO 2
’s
SUB 2 FREQ
knob to
around noon and you’ll start to hear this
stopping and starting motion in action,
creating very off-kilter rhythms that are
being accelerated by
VCO 2 SUB 1
while at
the same time being turned off and on by
VCO 2 SUB 2
!
This creates a very complex system,
and you can start to perceive that
Subharmonicon sounds like it almost
has a mind of its own.
Click the
QUANTIZE
button (setting it to
8-ET
) to quantize the voltages coming
from
SEQUENCER 1
into a diatonic scale.
Play around with the
SEQUENCER 1
knobs
and you’ll be able to find melodies that
move in very strange patterns.
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The ability of Subharmonicon
to stretch out time, manipulate
clocks with its envelopes, and even
stop and start itself with its own
oscillators makes Subharmonicon a
powerful instrument for generating
tangled melodies and strange
sequences.
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