how can we replicate lazyfish's h e i s h e r e in vcvrack2?

one of my fav organic noise/soundscaper ever made is lazyfish’s “h e i s h e r e”, a feedback FM-based and saturation patch that could sound like monkeys dancing in the zoo or like a broken sax improvisation. insanely deep and versatile and low on cpu…

for Reaktor users or for the interested to take the challenge to replicate this in VCVRack with modules we have… it won’t be easy. even if you can see the guts of it in Reaktor, it’s highly esoteric…

the original: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/1237/

and some remixes:

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/6405/

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/reaktor-community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/10885/

if one wants to research this, its a fascinating piece of sound history. if any results, please share with us. I wasnt able to replicate it (and I tried)… thank you!

how does it sound?

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Wow. What a worthy goal! I haven’t got a clue but I did find a little bit of info which I thought I’d contribute to this thread:

h e i s h e r e reverb in reaktor blocks – Wesen’s Stuff

It only talks about the reverb part and not much about the voice or fx parts of the ensemble but that’s a start.

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lazyfish’s creations are meshmerizing … h e i s h e r e is one of my favourite ensembles as well. Another one is the Skrewell predecessor TG-8H … pure genius!

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Nice patch. In VCV I’d use Noise Plethora for the noise generator part, and Dark Energy for the more tonal part.

I think the genius here is more the patching than the modules though.

One example: To patch a raucous tone sometimes I like mixing audio sources in a comparator.

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Dark Energy is a good choice for the AM/Ringmod voice. Such a wide variety of tones. I haven’t found much info about how the sound generation part works but I did gather from a forum post that there was a vector mixer ‘block’ used so I installed HetrickCV’s “Vector Mix” and played around with it a bit.

VCV Library - HetrickCV Vector Mix

In addition to dark energy, there is one brief moment where it makes a sound I do sort of recognize how to make. Try this: take the befaco ponyvco

VCV Library - Befaco PonyVCO

and self patch the output back into the tz-fm and sync and play around with the timbre and pitch. It makes groaning, screeching, chirping sounds and it’s been one of my favorite noisemakers.

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