anyone have a module like Vhikk X (Drone)

https://www.perfectcircuit.com/forge-tme-vhikk-x.html?srsltid=AfmBOorTn0ymJz9p31IP5fCdebZbgh-Y5DGIxI_RXoNKml0yYYiaSGly

here it is in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLg2wdW-G7Q

You’ll get some similar sounds from VCV Library - Befaco Oneiroi

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Funnily enough, I was watching a different video with a demo of this earlier. I would have a go at emulating it, but I don’t know exactly what it does! I know it’s basically a wavetable VCO, filter and effects section including a frequency shifter. I’m guessing it’s monophonic if it’s a ‘drone VCO’ but I’m not sure what the other effects algorithms are.

You could absolutely patch up something similar from other modules. It’s quite a thick sound, so my tip would be to experiment with polyphony. You can force one note onto multiple channels either by using Bogaudio Unison for the v/oct, or mult the audio signal with Polymult, then stick it through a poly filter and some poly effects (most of the surge collection are polyphonic, Airwindows and quite a few others). For polyphonic delay, try Stocaudio Polydelay or RPJ Circle Ride.

Then again, my answer to everything is ‘make it polyphonic’. Maybe not quite the same, but I’ve made very similar sounds with those techniques.

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Yeah a wavetable VCO into a filter and then a delay and reverb with frequency shifter in the reverb. However, it’s more complicated than that, it is multiple VCOs doing cross modulation I think with two controls affecting each VCO in different ways depending on the algorithm, and a wavetable scan. It also has some different effects like chorus, again depending on the algorithm. On top of all that, a couple of the algorithms have pitched wavetables so when you scan it you can play melodies, I don’t know how to emulate that.

Crossfeeding two wavetable oscillators should get you in the right ball park.

A 3.5 hours demo by State Azure. I generally like his work a lot. And I’m not alone. He gathered 150K subscriber on YouTube and has lots of supporters on Patreon. Had not seen/heard this one before. That might be because it’s very fresh work (not even a day old)…

Forge TME has a lot of info on Vhikk-x, including an Algorithm Reference.