the
SISM's
Shift knob up to about 2:00. Patch the
SISM
channel's output to the
Looping Delay
’s
Feedback
CV jack.
Now you can activate the “record” CV like in the previous patch to lay down new material, but you can
also activate the “clear” CV to fade out material from the loop. You can even activate both pads at the
same time to replace loop material with new material.
What's happening in this patch is that the
SISM
is turning the 0V to 5V signal (or 8V or whatever the
maximum) from the pad module into a 5V to 0V signal. So, the
SISM
will output around 5V if you are
not pressing on the manual pressure pad (no CV signal). This means the
Looping Delay’s
Feedback
will be 100%. As you press on the pad and increase the voltage from the pad module, the
SISM
will
decrease its output voltage, which decreases the
Feedback
parameter. When
Feedback
is low,
material from the loop fades away.
Note that if your loop is not looping at 100%, then the
SISM's
Shift knob needs to be turned up a bit.
This insures at least 5V is coming out of the
SISM
when nothing is being input.
Granular Scrubbing
A really neat effect can be obtained by changing the
Reverse
jack to respond to gates, and patching a
PWM pulse wave into it.
This allows you to scrub across “grains” in an audio loop at variable playback
speed without changing the pitch.
First, enter
System Setting Mode
and set the
Reverse
jack to
Gate
Mode
(See
System Settings Mode
,
page 16). Then patch audio into the
In
jack and take the output from the
Audio
Out
jack. Tap a slow
tempo, maybe one second, and set
Time
so the loop time is a couple seconds. Turn
Feedback
down
and
Delay Feed
up. Play some audio, perhaps a drum loop, a vocal sample, or a melody line. Let the
audio play through (make sure
Mix
is set at least 50/50), and then press
Inf. Hold
to lock in the loop.
Listen to the loop play once or twice to get a feel for what it sounds like normally.
Now the trick! Patch a pulse wave with variable pulse width (sometimes called PWM) from your favorite
LFO or clock module to the
Reverse
jack. The 4ms
QCD
with the
QCD Expander
work nicely by using
the Gate PW knob to adjust pulse width. You can also use the
EOR
or
EOF
output from the any of the
4ms
EnvVCA
modules and use the ratio of Rise and Fall sliders to set the pulse width. The frequency
should be between about 2Hz and about 20Hz.
At first, set the pulse width to about 60-70% or so. You should see the
Reverse
light flicker, and the
loop should immediately start playing slowly forward or backwards. Tap the
Reverse
button to make it
play the other direction. Change the LFO’s pulse width to adjust the playback rate. As you approach
50%, the loop will slow down, until it hovers at 50% and then starts playing back in the opposite
direction.
The frequency of the VCO changes the “grain” size. At 2Hz there is a noticeable “stutter”, and at 20Hz it
sounds like a medium/low fidelity granular effect. If the VCO is too fast or if the pulse width is too
extreme, the effect will be lost.
The reason this effect works is because it plays forward when the pulse is low and backwards when the
pulse is high (or vice-versa if you toggled
Reverse
with the button). So, a pulse width of 50% will
effectively hover on a single grain because it plays forward and backwards equally. But, a pulse width
of 60% will play forward for 60% of the time and backwards 40% of the time, thus slowly moving
forward at 20% speed. The makes the audio slow down to 1/5 speed without any pitch shifting.
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