Pulsar-23 Patch Walk and Talk #6: VCA's for Ducking and Bass Shaping
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This patch utilizes the VCAs to duck and shape audio. I even use a switch. Should be fun!
***I learned it is neither AM or FM synthesis when the LFO is in audio range while connected to the VCA CV pin, it is waveform modulation.
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Awesome, another video from a master of the Pulsar-23! I'm still really dumb when it comes to patching this thing and get a lot out of watching your videos and the inspiration that comes from that. Thank you for sharing.
Far from master, but I really appreciate the semtiment! I am so glad to fuel creativity and start conversations. It is my pleasure.
I love your profile picture, by the way.
@@S.r.wilson You are a master compared to me haha. I love the Lyra drones you have in the background as well, gives the Pulsar sounds a nice bed to play over. Also love the sporadic triplets you get on the HH module, lends some great variety to the pattern. The actual sound of the HH is lovely too with the modulation.
I hope as you're making these patches you're recording the raw audio from the machine because you could easily use this in releases. :)
Yes it's mental isn't it? Found the picture on 4Chan many, many years ago. XD
I am certainly recording everything. These machines are so unpredictable I don't want to miss anything. Editing is not my strong suit so I am trying to get tracks from single takes, but thats tough. These videos will help me in the future when I start lutting a live set together.
The Lyra/Pulsar combo has been in my head for two years. Plotting and planning what I wanted to do as I saved up cash.
That is one hell of a rooster.
Great video, thanks for sharing your methods 👍 Lots to learn here. I've hardly touched the vca or inverters on mine yet
Thank you! If you give it a try, let me know how it goes!
Very lucid and fun explanations of the moves in the patch. Just getting into your series and I can tell it’s gonna be a wealth of information and inspiration. Thanks for making these!
Very cool of you to check out and let me know what you think. Thank you. I am working on explanations and try hard to be thorough.
Loving these videos man. Super helpful. Also you just have a very pleasant vibe, so ty.
Thank you, very nice of you to say. Talking through the exploration has really been a pleasure. I am so glad they are useful! They have helped me organize my thoughts as well.
Well you successfully made one of the best videos I have seen on this machine. Thank you
I am so glad you got something out of it! Thank you for the kind words. Shoot me any questions and I would love to help if I can. Or at least help point you in the right direction.
Or if you just want to chat Pulsar
Been really enjoying your videos, really in depth and creative use of the Pulsar! I'm not sure if you've been doing any multitrack of the instrument, Routing the outs through the 1/4 jacks. When doing so, it bypasses any of the FX which (in this great patch you put together) definitely has different outcomes with the reverb etc. With as advanced as you are with the machine, I bet you would really like the multitrack aspect and working with that as an added challenge. Really can't say enough how great your videos are and how the Pulsar community is thankful! Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much! I am definitely going to venture into the multitracking aspect of the Pulsar. I have two channels running into my Octatrack and the main out is running directly into my audio interface. My A/I only has 6 inputs, so I try to make the most of it.
Anything particular in regard to multitracking that you are curious about?
@@S.r.wilson Totally understand! I was running all out into my interface until I got my hands on an ES9 and switched it up to multi-track which has been incredibly nice, I just hate how it bypasses the effects. I guess that would be the main thing on Multi-track is on how to get effects back on maybe a per track basis? I know you can do the REV or DLY out into the track out, but then the effect gets split into each voice...i.e. you can hear the BD delay on the HHT. I also wonder if maybe there is a way to use the 6 1/4 jack pins on the bottom left to separate combined clocks? Would be nice to have the ability to do a combined 16/4 clock, but then still be able to access a straight 16. I'm wondering if maybe do a 16 on the 1 pin, 4 on the 2 pin, then on the back route both the 1 and 2 with a 1/4 to 3.5 cables onto the top 3.5mm inputs and then use those as a combined out?
Loving these Videos!
Thanks for checking them out! Let me know how it works for you!
I love your spirit dude!
I really appreciate that. These machines are so fun to play. I very glad to be able to share my exploration. Listening back to this one, I had to speak quick to get all the info in under the time I set for myself. Coffee was strong.
Patch notation is a challenge LOL I like your idea of letters and numbers, even taking photos is not foolproof. i like how you got your LFO clock swinging in this patch. One of my fave things is adding little bursts of 32's to a 16s hat pattern, like u did here. Wuz cool how the HH/SN ended up sounding like someone shaking a box of matches near the end there... sweet! Subbed, nice!
Hey! It does sound like that! In my head I called it the ticky woody sound. Matchbox is much cooler.
I just cant believe how much vibiness the bursts on the HHT add when triggered by the bass env. That was a lot of fun.
Have you done any modulation to the Shaos? That's kind of a blind spot for me right now. Might try to explore that this week.
And thank you very much for the sub!
Another cool video and interesting patch
Really like your idea about patch note
I think from all cool patchs can make like patch note book for like beginners an not just beginners
Thanks for sharing your experience with crazy monster energy 23
Thank you, again!
Maybe next week I will include that. Or maybe an extra video this weekend if I have time.
I still want to do more witj running external audio through. With this patch, you could run external audio to the vca cv pin and get that fm sound with the bass module. Might be interesting depwnding on the audio.
I love that I can share somethimg of value!
@@S.r.wilson ye I gonna do some experiment on the weekend to with the external sound.
But definitely waiting for your video
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dope
Extraordinary!!
Thank you so much!
So cool that everyone (almost) was here on this early video. 💙💙💙
Cool videos man! Always nice to see someone's else approach in patching Pulsar.
Thank you!
Learned a lot from this one! Great
Excellent! The versatility of that bass module is inspiring. And the melodic/rhythmic relationship of the vca/lfo/shaos makes it feel like the Pulsar has a mind of its own.
Great patch! Really like your way of problem solving and how you work this out to your desired level. Really appreciate your walks and talks, really like how you talk about it. Super fun and cool. Found so many cool ideas thanks to you. Thanks a lot.
One question is have about this path, and maybe about pulsar in general. Once i connect the trig converter into the bd, there is a dramatic decrease in db. even if i turn volume all way up, i miss the ability to make it louder. its basically ambient minimal in max volume if i need to compare to something. I was thinking maybe my power source doest deliver what this device wants. Just in case had a similar question in your mind, because i see that you operate with a great remainder capacity of volume on the bd.
Thanks and keep grooving!
Very cool, thank you for this message.
As for the BD volume, I would try different pitch, tune, and drive combos. I just reread the manual and was reminded that the drive shapes the waveform. "When rotated clockwise, the waveform changes from triangle to sine to square "
Maybe this will bulk it up?
I also saw a video with the artis Surgeon, and he said he connects the 10v to an attenuator and then to the Tune Mod. Could try that also. Or bd env to wtf or omg?
you are KING.)thnx
Haha! You are too kind. Thank you, Erik. Hope its gets your pulsar juices flowing!
Sick
Thank you
Brilliant!
Thank you!
Thanks for all of these woot
Thank you, Ron! 🙏
@@S.r.wilson I have felt like limited with how I use it, these are necessary to learn how to go deeper
Honored to be a part of the evolution.
Great vid dude!! Thank you ;)
Thank you! Your videos are super fun! How is the patching going? Have you performed live with the pulsar?
@@S.r.wilson Thanks...haven't performed live with pulsar itself but have performed with beats I make with it. I record into a boss rc505 and queue up different channels with a nektar midi foot pedal
@@gonzosightseeing The Rc505 is so cool. That is what I am working toward on the Octatrack. If I could go out with that box only, that would be fun.
I am constantly tempted to swap it for something like an rc505 and an sp404
Puisar rules.
It really does.
how long did it take to get friendly with it?
It took me a few weeks to be comfortable. But I am still learning and figuring out how I want to perform with it. I got an Ornament-8 recently and that adds so many more possibilities that my head is still swirling with 'what if's
Have you made video, where you spesificly explain why to use those ”circuit bending” stuff, like diodes etc?
I have used the .1uf cap for an extra 'pulse converter' and the diode to sd trigger to lfo for velocity changes and I have run shaos 3-bit out through the 10uf capacitor to the bass voice cv to get some fun sounds.
But there is a cool video that I have checked out that covers these components here: th-cam.com/video/7syrf3liLJ4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=LaMMFpPkNqOFqltt
What’s playing in the background
Hey! Hope it wasnt too distracting. It is just a long sample I made on the Octatrack. Samoles slowed down a bunch with some reverb
@@S.r.wilson it's great creates a nice ambience
you was born with that thing right?
Very kind of you! I watched Vlads videos a ton before I got it. Gave me lots of ideas to try out.