Get more out of morphing wavetable oscillators - With Erica Synths Black Wavetable VCO 

Glad you liked it! Also made two videos on envelopes recently. They are really aimed at beginners, but I use a small ES setup with this as the only osc, so sounddemos are good there to :) Still one of my favorite oscillators ever, so would say go for it. These are no longer in production though, so, while you can :)

Glad to hear it, cheers!

Glad you liked it! And think that's a good choice. I really like this one :)

Thanks for the nice comment, and I will! :)

Glad to hear you get something out of it! All the best!

Thanks, glad you liked it!

Glad to hear you think so! Cheers :)

You're welcome! And thats nice to hear! Get more out of stuff you have instead of chasing new things :)

Glad to hear it!

Glad you like them! Still really enjoying to make these :)

So glad to hear it! These inspired comments make it so worth it making these videos! Thanks for letting me know, and enjoy your experiments! All the best :)

Thanks! and a worthy oscillator for sure :)

Hey, thats lovely to hear! Glad you enjoyed it :) Cheers!

Lovely project, good luck with that! :)

Glad to hear it, thanks!

Glad you enjoyed it, cheers!

Yes should probably do that indeed :)

@@MonotrailTechTalk how does it work,? Do u have to like add to the motherboard yourself?

@@emmanuelleroy2915 There's already a place (chip holder) for the ROM on the back of the module, if that is what you mean? So you can just push the chip into place, no soldering or dificult stuff ;)

@@MonotrailTechTalk OMG thank u so much 🙏🏽

where can I get it?

Haha, I have to apologize to more and more bank accounts across the globe I fear. But if you are in the market for a wave-table oscillator, this is a more than excellent candidate for sure! Still really enjoy mine :)

Glad you like it!

You're welcome!

Ah yeah, I read about that. I have no experience with the Disting EX, but enjoy the experiment!

Yes, fun trick that can be interesting with a lot of modules actually :) Enjoy!

Lovely module indeed :)

Thanks!

Hey, don't have the rom myself, still feel like the factory rom is offering a lot, but it's pretty affordable, and as easy as plugging it in. So I actually should get one as they are available :)

Thanks! And yes! It's the most requested I think, so i soon will grab some Patron money and buy a Doepfer A166 to talk about! Thanks for subbing!

Thanks!

The sound! The wasp filter was my first filter, bought it because I realy like the unstable rumbling sounds it makes with high resonance.

In general all modular signal generating modules (like oscillaotrs, LFOs and envelopes) are outputting the strongest signal they can at all times. So in case of the oscillator, it's common to patch a filter and or Voltage Controlled Amplifier after it, to control the volume. There are some exceptions of course, and the ES Black Wavetable is one of them. It has a build in VCA, so it can control it's own output volume. However, if you want to get the most out of that. You would't send it a gate ot trigger, but use a gate ot trigger on an envelope, and send the envelope to the internal VCA on the Black Wavetbale :)

@@MonotrailTechTalk Thank you for the reply and explanation! Im newer to eurorack!

I own Plaits. It’s a very nice module, but it’s not as powerful as the Black VCO when it comes to wavetables. That said, it can do a lot of things, so it is a nice addition to most racks.

I have no experience with hte Plaits unfortunalty, so I dont know about the wavetables. But a very versatile module for sure.

I own both and the answer is yes but the black wavetable sounds WAY better as plaits only has a small number of wave banks to choose from to do it on plaits make sure you have the harmonics knob turned counter clockwise (from fully CCW up till just before 12 O'clock will let you morph the waves, after 12 O'clock the waves will step from one to another) the Timbre knob will select your banks of waves and morph will morph through the selected bank

@@chemicalBR0 Thanks for the information! Look forward to testing it.

Hi Moinlabs! Not entirely sure how serious you are, but just in case ;) Morphing wavetables have a series of pre-defined digital waveshapes in a bank or grid. The key is that you can go from one waveshape to another by morphing from one shape to another in a smooth way. That's interesting for modulation, because transitions sound organic. Some synths have wavetables, but not the posibility to morph from one to another, so you just have to pick one and use it as a static wave. If I'm right the Qubit Scanned is something enterely different. It doesn't have banks or a grid with pre-defined waves you can scan through. But a unique way of generating a wavefom from a line, and organicly morphing back to a line. Haha, doesn't sound clear, I know. I have no eperience with it, but it's a different concept.

@@MonotrailTechTalk I guess my question was one of terminology then. I understood your use of "morph" akin to computer animation (i.e. have one static thing and then going to another one and making that appear smooth) as opposed to category theory. In that context, running through a wavetable doesn't do that (but needn't do that, if you want it to sound smooth, you use fitting wavetables). What the Erica thing allows for is to move between wavetables as well, although the brief manual isn't telling how exactly it does that. Considering that the waves are pretty short usually (single-cycle waveforms), it's always pretty "smooth", right? But yes, the Scanned is something different as it somewhat builds the wavetables on the fly using a recursive map (or more colloquially function) which automatically gives it a certain degree of smoothness. (and with that, mathematically speaking, it is a morphism).

Sorry about that ;)