Many thanks MinorNoise. I really like your nick name!
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CTRL-R is of course an option if you donāt know what to do with a setting. Thank you very much.
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CTRL + R often yields chaotic results, but it works nicely in your patch.
Hereās my third patch:
I fail again with a proper title, so itās called Patch 3. An alternative name might be āThe d minor choral that tries hard to rule but finally surrenders against the microtonal fluteā but that sounds a bit awkwardā¦
It is an attempt to balance harmonic voices with the more noisy voices from the Sapphire modules, but I feel the real star of the patch is that flute-like voice from Elastika.
This voice to discover was a happy accident. I was very surprised to get it out of Elastika which I always used more for percussive support, and thought for a moment to throw everything away and just focus the whole patch on this voice.
If someone is interested to explore this more, there are some very delicate settings to get this sound in Elastika, and they even work without patching the input channels:
- Tilt In and Out on default (both pointing upwards)
- Fric: 0.25 (but thatās the least important setting, everthing below 0.5 appears to work)
- Stif: 0.736
- Span: 0.42
- Curl: 0.608 and slightly below sounds like a Flute to me, 0.612 more like an Oboe, and 0.616 like a Horn
- Mass: 0.27
(My patch has slightly different values, especially the Mass because the CV from ShapeMaster channel 8 gets added.)
All four settings - Stif, Span, Curl, Mass - can be modulated to get more movement, but modulated with only very minimal values, otherwise the sound moves into the more noisy domain of Elastika. Iāve modulated the Mass with the 8th channel from ShapeMaster which does some very small jumps in CV. I liked this more than a gliding pitch that would come from attaching an LFO. (But S&H or the Random module with random CV in steps would achieve the same, I guess.)
The input to Elastika (just the envelope from the NYSTHI AD module) a) adds a bit more movement to the flute, and b) creates the random metallic hits that sound like an additional voice completely independent from the flute. The metallic noise appears if the Attack is zero or almost zero. With softer attacks it goes away. (I abused the Quantizer as an attenuverter or offset to the Attack input with the Mod 0-to-2 V input from Slips to move it to -1-to-1 V to get more likely metallic hits.)
The patching is a bit chaotic after tons of experiments, but at some point I just said to myself āstop and doneā, and thatās the result. It was fun again!
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Greetings fellow participants in this fun challenge that I only found yesterday, Spent the weekend playing with some patching and hereās number 1. My little brain canāt usually handle fixed rack stuff but I love the sapphire models for just going bang bang bang with so I thought Iād give it a go.
Patch: https://patchstorage.com/sapphire-fix-challenge-01-gorse/
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Another amazing ambient work! I have listened to it several times, and love it.
Yes, Elastika can get very sensitive to CV inputs. @Alphagem-O mentioned this above in passing, but people might have missed it: low sensitivity attenuverters is a feature I added recently.
Try right-clicking on one of the attenuverter knobs and choose the low-sensitivity option. An orange dot will appear on top of the knob, and the knob will now be 1/10 as sensitive as it usually is. For example, 25% with an orange dot is the same as 2.5% when the orange dot is absent.
This makes Elastika easier to control with CV.
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Thank you! Yes, the low sensitivity would have been helpful for the flute modulation. Good to know for the next time.
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Many thanks, this for sure has the most beautiful Tricorder!
Please, can you also post the patch?
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Sapphire patch 2024.vcv (15.0 KB)
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Thank you for your beautifully detailed and clear explanations. Your āextendedā title is apt. The sounds are aerial and uplifting. Very nice to listen to!
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Thank you for leaving your beaten path and taking the challenge! This is nicely balanced, feels fragile and precious. I particularly like the rumble coming from Nucleus and the sitar-ish drone from Tube Unit. Well done!
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A journey into the underworld. A fascinating collage of sounds, rhythms and moods. Great patch!
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This is great! The richness and variety of sounds is impressive.
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Evening all. Hereās #2 fun challenge. Still pretty noisy.
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Patch number 3 āLetās see then ehā
Less noise based then 1 and 2 - I think ā¦
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Evening all once again . I 10pm on Tuesday the 30th where I am. I apologise for the spam.
Patch 4 - Waiting Rains
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Patch 5 - Getting there
this one has a cool manu (bird)
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Patch 6 - Tick tock (cos of the little beats in it)
Really fun challenge great modules. I learnt some new things and made some weird sounds and heard all your fullas cool sounds. Iād appreciate any subs on the yt there. Itās an elite club at the moment and thereās lots on there. Lots of vcv based stuff but all manner of things. Thanks to all the people who make this wonderful software and the modules - it improves my life and that of my family as well.
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Nice!!! I like the 80-ish sounds it sometimes haveā¦well done, very musical!
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