Hello everybody, welcome again to our new episode of our little tutorial series, why
we love the search synthesizer.
Today I would like to do two things.
First of all we're going to do a little introduction to the quad slope, the most famous and also
most versatile module of the search synthesizer system.
It's basically a slope generator, it's four instances of the same module, doesn't look
very exciting but it can do a lot of lot of things which a few of them I'm going to show
you today.
There is in every single module here, every single instance there is an output that outputs
the slope that we can set in rise and fall with these two knobs here.
We have a gate out in the trigger in, the trigger in triggers the slope and the gate
out puts an output, a gated output voltage when the slope has finished and this is another
input that's AC coupled.
And then we have one volt per octave control voltage in and the variable control voltage
in that you can set on rise and fall and the voltage control that actually gets the voltage
to affect rise or fall or both that you can see here.
That's pretty much it, yes that's basically the module we're going to focus on today.
And the second one because I like it so much is our Gator module.
It's put together of basically trigger and math and logic modules.
You can see it's a little Boolean logic here.
My beloved pulse divider that I came to like really much and we're going to do something
with it today and a comparator and our voltage time generator and clock module and of course
an audio output which across fade.
Okay so what we're going to do first we're going to make some noise, get some audio going.
You probably have guessed it already, we connect the gate out to the trigger in and all of
a sudden miraculously we have some output happening here.
I already preset this a little bit, all my patch cables will fall down, I'm sorry, okay.
So there's a bipolar output, it's AC coupled so we can go right into our mixer.
Well here we have audio, there's a little scope that you know already and you can see
now by adjusting rise and fall, putting the rise up, you get a nice saw wave and the inverse.
So okay, still not really exciting but I thought about the little patch that we're going to
do right now.
First of all we're going to connect a second instance of it, we're going to do this by
getting the gate output into the trigger in of the second unit.
Okay, the second unit has some audio now, it's basically the same frequency but you
could adjust the waveform differently now because it's independent.
Okay, next thing we're going to do, I hope this is working out here, next thing we're
going to do is we're going to connect this bipolar output to another instance, input
and this is basically to square up the signal we're getting out of here, I tried this before
so I'm basically replicating the patch that I've been doing just to show you some good
nice things you can do and we're going to put this into our pulse divider.
So the pulse divider actually is now dividing a frequency which you will be able to hear
when we divide it by two, patch it to the second input, oh here we go.
The scope shows us quite a funky thing but that's basically what you're getting here.
Looks interesting enough, so we've got like a resonance and when we patch it here on
the four, it's like this, quite funky and the eight.
So we are dividing this frequency, alright.
This is originally as I said it's meant to do pulses but the cool thing is it's actually
outputting a square wave that you can see here.
So I'm going to turn this low, lower a little bit, ok so this is all and all, you can mix
it again, it's still pretty boring so let's add some more frequencies to that.
This pull-in logic module actually designed for triggers, I found out it's quite nice
to do some audio stuff with it too.
So we're going to put this here to an end module and patch it into the second output.
So it's an end module, it doesn't work until there's a second input connect that's also
feeding some, it's also getting some signals so we're going to do this and take our four
and voila, there is something more, ok again we have nothing and some nice and another nice
wave.
So the next thing I want to do is get the octave below and we're going to use the next
module we have here, it's an OR and the OR module, the boolean of course outputs when
either of the two inputs get something, ok now here we go, now here we get our funky
mix and make wave form again and now we take the fourth that we had previously in here
and add it in here, ok so I hope you can hear it, it's already nice harmonious.
Onyx going, ok that's what you can do with a simple slope generator, actually two slope
generators but you can do it with either one and the pulse divider has audio and some boolean
logic and that's why we love the search, that was already part one I think.
