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PDO mk​.​2 + TBVCA - Demo 03 (Full Track)

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On this demo I concentrated on short, choppy sounds controlled by sharp, attacking envelopes. The SYNC on the PDO is also used at points, creating a lovely "phasey" sound, and external oscillators are used to modulate the PDO via the TBVCA instead of merely utilising the internal routing. The only other sound heard is a synth pad from the FXpansion DCAM Synth Squad Amber plugin, which plays the chordal beds which appear every now and then.

PATCH DETAILS:

1. The Vermona FOURmulator quad LFO is used to CV the Triple Bipolar VCA (connected into the PDO) - several different LFOs are combined in a mixer for this purpose.
2. The input into the TBVCA is coming from the Rubicon, and both that and a Dixie are following a sequence from the Moskwa sequencer.
3. An a151 Sequential Switch is used so that every few bars the Dixie is let through to the SYNC input on the PDO, causing it to lock into a more identifiable "riff". The rest of the time its Phase Modulation is responding to a high frequency version of the same sequence, coming from the Rubicon, and controlled by the FOURmulator
4. The Rubicon's double Sine is fed back into the TZFM input, and the TZFM INDEX is swept up and down by Maths, adding more interest to the PDO's Phase Modulation source.
5. The PDO's Staircase output is also used in this patch, and is sent via my trusty Tiptop z2040 filter. The filter's cutoff is heavily modulated, and random gates trigger an envelope which controls the z2040's GAIN.
6. At points I increase the z2040's resonance into self-oscillation, which only appears when the input GAIN is not being boosted by the envelope.
7. The z2040 is sent via the Modcan Dual Delay, and various controls on both the z2040 and the delay are manipulated throughout.
8. Towards the end all oscillators' pitches are experimented with, and much strangeness occurs!

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from WMD PDO mk​.​2 + Triple Bipolar VCA, released January 16, 2014

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