Awesome, it’d be very nice to see how you can use the CV sampling functionality for some beat synced modulation. I’m wondering whether synchronizing CV samples to the beat it’s a real pain or not with this module.
It's not a pain at all until you try to change the tempo, which for me, rarely happens. Most 120ish house tempo changes are .13 semi tones per 1 bpm, but the resolution is actually finer for 100% accuracy for a loop. You can get around this by clocking a one shot trigger to get it to loop instead of it looping forever on its own. Or you can do what I do and just internally resample a tempo synced CV signal in a DAW like Ableton or Bitwig. Then it's really easy to export a million different envelopes that are all synced perfectly to a bpm. And instead of fiddling with an approximation of what you want your envelope to be you can fine tune it visually. Plus do things like tri, tri, saw, tri, sin, rest, envelope, saw - all synced to 124 bpm etc. I'm currently routing a high CV offset to Serum FX and using Serum's LFO's to shape the signal. So I can draw whatever shape I want. I actually just spent earlier tonight making 24PPM 1 bar clock loops from 120-128bpm for the assimil8tor. It's by far my most stable master clock.
Thank you very much for the feedback...how about synchronizing the tempo by changing the pitch of the CV sample...have you ever tried to do that? I’m just wondering whether that’s an available option or it’s a real pain...by the way, it’s a good idea to resample everything into Ableton...thanks again...
@@leonardocaminati6432 :) That is definitely possible, though it will be inaccurate at most values. If you look at how pitch converts to bpm, at regular electronic tempos, like 110-130 bpm, its 13, 14, 15, and 16 cents to move 1 bpm. So its close, but still not locked in to the exact exact tempo. It's really like (in semi tones) +0.14XX to get from say 125 to 126 bpm. It would work for live, but not if you wanted it to be right on. What you could do though is use the loop function on one singular gate. (60/BPM)*Sample Rate= samples per beat. That would be tedious, though incredibly accurate. Only thing is, your gate length would change slightly, but that wont really be an issue. 120bpm is 22050 samples per beat. 122bpm is 21688.5. Round up or down, but you're still accurate to 4 significant figures. Really though, if you want to change set tempos, you just load up many tempos, and then you set all of them up into zones. Then you can change the clock speed by cv or the internal knob to that channels zone control.
nice sounds, do you have a link for the E350 wavetables you loaded ? What wave did you loaded in CH7 as a phase mod ? // you know you could 'multiply' the 8 banks by loading 8 (other) wavetables in the zones so you basically get 64 wavetables access under CV control
I’m pretty sure it was rub triangle ch8 to rub saw ch7 to Salher waves. For bass content, the 16 bit, 2048 sample serum wavetables will work better. The waves I used sounded good. But lower that about 150hz, 256 sample wavetables start to lose harmonics. I did a whole video on using banks that would have gone between those two videos but I figured it was just more interesting to show the crossfading. I have my own preset of loaded zones now. It can make things easier in some ways if you’re looking for modulations. But presets handle pure switching better imo. Too much to keep routing cv or controls to set the bank number if you want it static. It would have been huge if the zones themselves crossfaded internally. Really what I think is the best way to load tables and have lots of access is to just load full serum exports of your waves. So the 16 but exports it does. Then you can also preserve its spectral morphing to a degree. It’s tedious in some ways to make sure your sample is 2048 samples, better have a calc on hand, but then you get full tables for each channel. It would be great if you could lock loop time and start time together. Of course you can set loop start and sample start to a cv and that works really well to select in the table, but only if you have that many offset generators handy and no saving of the current state. Also, good numbers for 2048 sample waveforms: +5 steps, +23 cents will get you a perfect C note. Glad you have the module. Feel free to share any more thoughts you have on it. It’s a really great device. Something functional that pushes the imagination at the same time.
@@ryanpwm thanks ryan, can't we lock loop time yet ? if you push loop end you'll notice loop end/length on the top right in the display - if you hold loop end for a few seconds the display (and functionality) will change, thus enabling you a fixed loop length(?)
This patch is INSANE!! I never even thought about phase modulating the phase modulation source haha!! Amazing work! I have a E352 already but I gotta try this out..have not experimented with cross fading just yet either. If you don't mind me asking what was the wavetable sample you used?
Eeeerrrrp. That has me eyeballing my e370... Wavetable sampler vs dedicated wavetable oscillator. The tables are just so small on the e370. I do like the big attenuator knobs for each CV input on the e370. Do you find it fiddly to use the internal CV attenuators?
No. It’s very easy. Click level button and adjust the level with precision encoder or fast with the potentiometer. To adjust with potentiometer, you do not need to encoder press, just highlight. Makes it very fast. What makes it even faster, is clicking the 8 channel buttons places you at the same location, different track. The potentiometer is set up to snap. So you can adjust level on 1, click 2 and touch the potentiometer slightly and 2 will snap to about where 1 was set. Makes it easy to drop many channels to -inf, or copy controls. Also, there’s a channel copy function. maybe expensive, the channels can also be mapped of course. So you could buy attenuverters and have knob control over most things and directly copy how the knobs control level as on the e370. Now I just use a 9 channel DC cascading mixer fed an offset. Also worth noting each channel as its own digital vca and ASR envelope. The limitations are that the e370 will scan multiple times as many wavetables. Assimil8or has 8. That’s the main drawback here. But also all the pluses of Assimil8or. Like recording your voice a 192khz and pitching down with no digitally induced harmonic loss, and using as your own wavetable. Or taking a euro sample and making it 4x4 unison stereo. Or recording an envelope or LFO and using it as modulation. Add some silence before envelopes and you can do cool delays. Use a daw like bitwig to draw dc modulations. Pitch a sample way way down use it… And so on. My first video is called copy pasta cause really Assimil8or is the copy paste of eurorack. And micro seconds of latency. 160 micro seconds on the single outs (100micro seconds on the main outs) means that you can run envelopes and still have 4X times faster response than a mini moog. Not exactly equivalent cause trigger vs rise, but puts it in perspective. Almost twice as fast as mutable stages is maybe a better example. Mpc is like 5ms-6ms pad to output.
