As far as I know there are no oscillators or LFOs with a phase setting. If there is one please let me know.
Why is that so? Maybe this is hard to achieve in a physical modular synth, or it’s hard to code… but I think the resettable oscillators should have a phase adjustment knob, especially the LFOs.
I would like to be able to create repeatable rhythms with LFOs and sometimes repeatable synth hits with adjustable phases.
Is just realised tidal modulator 2 can adjust the phase… thread solved!
in the phase mode it can shift phases on the 4 outputs… on the 3rd output it’s 180° in either direction and on the 4th a bit more… so this is my favourite LFO now
There’s no point in deleting this thread, someone else might have the same question.
I don’t know if it’s what you need but Nysthi Phasor lets you set the “phase” of each harmonic.
nysthi::lfomultiphase has 8 fixed phases out + one that is FREE phase and modulable with its VCA an its IN CV
(you can modulate shapes and PWM too. you can clock it, you can retrig it
you can write you preferred BPM (120 bpm?) or you preferred sisxteenth per minute 256spm
o just set th Hz 100.0037 Hz… )
Sorry, I misread the original post and missed the bit about LFOs, otherwise I would’ve immediately mentioned LFOmultiphase. I use it a lot for creating harmonic tremeloe.
By the way: A use case for adjusting the phase of an audio rate oscillator is creating a consistent kick drum, I tried using NYSTHI’s LFO at audio rate for that and it works fine. I did this by just entering a frequency of around 60Hz manually.
For VCO phase reset, if your VCO is already restarting from 0 phase at the start of each new note (from a trigger/gate to it’s hard sync input for example) then just delay the amplitude envelope (Nysthi Xatto or Elsker is ideal for this) and you get any phase you want from 0-360, this precision is obviously ideal for designing certain bass-lines and kicks as you mention. You can either calculate the delay times to match exact phase positions or adjust it manually.