Alphagem-O - Epicycles

Agree. docB’s Etudes on YouTube sometimes help with understanding the modules, and there are a quite few patches on Patchstorage to analyze. But even then it’s not always obvious what is going on.

However, the modules are absolutely amazing and (most of the time) very reliable.

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^ These are great! I thought it was one of the pad VCOs in your patch. I was reading the manual yesterday, the part for Gendy is sadly blank :smile: I had a quick try and couldn’t get anything I particularly liked with it, but the pad VCOs are awesome. It’s a really deep collection, I should probably try a few more of the modules because I’ve only used a few of them, and there are loads. It’s always a balance between loading up the trusty favourites you already know how to use and actually making some music, or spending time figuring out new stuff and experimenting in new directions.

I probably have that balance wrong, but I enjoy experimenting more than finishing stuff. Perhaps we should have a docB modules only patch challenge. Sometimes it’s more fun when you don’t know what you’re doing!

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Yeah, the pad VCO’s are awesome. They’re way too fiddly and strange to use, and UX is kinda… yeah, but when you get a great sound from pad it’s so different than almost anything else, except some esoteric wavetables, it sounds awesome and the CPU is even very low. If I ever make modules (right) one of my missions will be to make a totally pro version of padsynth, because that algorithm is clearly something special. It’s a published algorithm by some guy and docB refers to it somewhere.

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