The Stoch setting uses the pink noise (generated by a transistor) to generate true random signals. Chaos uses another subcircuit to generate the chaotic cv. If you have a scope, you can patch the pink or chaos outputs to see how it looks. Generally speaking: chaotic signals will be somewhat periodic, showing a pattern and/or predictability, whereas random is completely unpredictable.
Love the series, I've been interested in building a small backpackable system powered by one or two synthrotek USB power supplies but didn't really really know what to start looking at. These videos have given me a good place to start.
Thanks for your support! If you're new, let me just say ... the modular community is kinda not a fan of synthrotek based on their previous public communications! build quality is another issue! do some searching around on the internet before you buy. There should be many USB power supplies available for portable options...
Be aware that when negative voltages are applied to chipz, it bleeds the effect into other areas of the module. i.e., putting negative into chip1 can also affect chip2's sound. This is sort of by-design, part of the glitchy quality of the module. It won't hurt anything, but it can be surprising if you were thinking the LFO, chip1, and chip2,, were actually independent. They aren't quite.
Cool approach. You could plug a reverb pedal in the send/receive on the Rosie to create a lush soundscape from the chiptune or add a small DSP module like the fxaid for effects.
This is a nice series. And thanks for removing the background music. But it seems an awful lot of modules and faff for just that random signal. Isn't there something that can generate a quantized stochastic steam of control data without using one of your voices and the disting and a passive attenuator?
There is - it's called the Qu-bit Bloom. I own one, and eventually I'll do a small system build with it. Since the Bloom has 2 channels of quantized output, it usually lives in my larger system where I have more oscillators.
Tragically, the NLC site seems to have more information on how to build their modules and less explaining all functions in detail. But the designer has written quite a lot on chaos and randomness on his site ... it's kinda above my pay grade
@@father_moo Chaos theory, chaos circuits, and synthesis is is a pretty massive rabbit hole. It's a good one though, worth delving into. In the most general terms chaos has a pattern, the thing that makes it chaotic is that the pattern doesn't repeat in a way that you can predict. The weather is chaotic in this way and chaos theory is tied to the work of Ed Lorenz did around forecasting and the weather.
The Stoch setting uses the pink noise (generated by a transistor) to generate true random signals. Chaos uses another subcircuit to generate the chaotic cv. If you have a scope, you can patch the pink or chaos outputs to see how it looks. Generally speaking: chaotic signals will be somewhat periodic, showing a pattern and/or predictability, whereas random is completely unpredictable.
that explanation is helpful!
Love the series, I've been interested in building a small backpackable system powered by one or two synthrotek USB power supplies but didn't really really know what to start looking at. These videos have given me a good place to start.
Thanks for your support! If you're new, let me just say ... the modular community is kinda not a fan of synthrotek based on their previous public communications! build quality is another issue! do some searching around on the internet before you buy. There should be many USB power supplies available for portable options...
Small and stand-alone modular synths are great for focusing attention. A good fit to video format for that reason.
Be aware that when negative voltages are applied to chipz, it bleeds the effect into other areas of the module. i.e., putting negative into chip1 can also affect chip2's sound. This is sort of by-design, part of the glitchy quality of the module. It won't hurt anything, but it can be surprising if you were thinking the LFO, chip1, and chip2,, were actually independent. They aren't quite.
This is really good to know, thanks! I read the manual but I don't remember reading this ...
Cool approach. You could plug a reverb pedal in the send/receive on the Rosie to create a lush soundscape from the chiptune or add a small DSP module like the fxaid for effects.
Nice little case.
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This is a nice series. And thanks for removing the background music.
But it seems an awful lot of modules and faff for just that random signal. Isn't there something that can generate a quantized stochastic steam of control data without using one of your voices and the disting and a passive attenuator?
There is - it's called the Qu-bit Bloom. I own one, and eventually I'll do a small system build with it. Since the Bloom has 2 channels of quantized output, it usually lives in my larger system where I have more oscillators.
With the NLC stuff and even in chaos theory chaos is less random than 'completely random'. Chaos has a pattern true randomness doesn't.
Tragically, the NLC site seems to have more information on how to build their modules and less explaining all functions in detail. But the designer has written quite a lot on chaos and randomness on his site ... it's kinda above my pay grade
@@father_moo Chaos theory, chaos circuits, and synthesis is is a pretty massive rabbit hole. It's a good one though, worth delving into. In the most general terms chaos has a pattern, the thing that makes it chaotic is that the pattern doesn't repeat in a way that you can predict. The weather is chaotic in this way and chaos theory is tied to the work of Ed Lorenz did around forecasting and the weather.
@@redwoodword interesting! looks like this is a rabbit hole i need to go down.
would love to know what happened with the wogglebug
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Did the wogglebug die or could you fix it? 1:31
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