I’m working on a project and I keep getting lost in the minutiae. This was one detour - I obtained shots of waveforms from an old 70s synth and this is one;
The VCAs may seem redundant but I’m still working out the modulation possibilities.
It’s a simple mix adding some noise into the output of a VCO. TBH I couldn’t hear much difference (my hearing is not what it was) but when I fed this through a filter or other modulation I certainly could hear it.
Not crazy at all, adding a tiny amount of noise into pitch CV roughens up the sound, and definitely makes it sound less clean and digital. I’ve used that trick before.
Try adding noise to the modulation CV inputs on delays too, and apply this to any audio. Easy lo-fi guitar effects…
A nice trick is to use a slew limiter on a CV signal, like a sequencer. Then use a quantzer. You get extra pitch changes that step up or down to the next scale note.
i’ve been doing this with matrix mixers lately, just a hair of noise adds a lot, you can also do this with a medium/high range lfo to add a touch of vibrato. Anything less than 5% sounds good, it sounds percussive when you let too much of the noise through.
