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COMP 64

THREE OSCILLATORS, RING MODULATION AND SYNC · ONE FILTER SHARED BETWEEN THEM

THREE OSCILLATORS, RING MODULATION, AND A FILTER OF ITS OWN.

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What it is

Three oscillators with ring modulation and sync, through the one resonant filter they shared. The filter is the instrument: an acid bass, a sweep pad and a sync lead are three settings of the same box. Ring modulation is where it gets its bells and its cowbell from, out of nothing but two oscillators folded together.

  • Triangle, saw, pulse with a 12-bit width, and noise, on each of three voices
  • Ring modulation and hard sync between voices
  • The multimode filter: low, band and high pass with resonance, shared like the hardware
  • Acid, sync leads, ring bells, filtered noise drums

Hear it

Boardwalk · 132 BPM · 6 tracks, every one on this chip. The app's own render, straight out of the engine; it ships in the app as a project you can open and pull apart.

The library

101 SOUNDS · 12 KITS
KEYS 25LEADS 23BASS 22PADS 13EFFECTS 11PLUCKS 5STRINGS 1BRASS 1

The kits

12 kits, every pad a voice of this chip, none of them a sample. The genre kits (trap, jungle, house, dusty, electro, factory, carnival) are written for the music people make now; the rest for the music the chip was born into.

CASSETTECIRCUITTAPE DECKACID BOXTAPE LOADTAPE TRAPTAPE JUNGLETAPE HOUSETAPE DUSTYTAPE ELECTROTAPE FACTORYTAPE CARNIVAL

KEYS 25

ring bellring gongring glassring stabcomputer organcomputer pianocomputer bellarp majorarp minorarp maj7arp min7arp octavesarp powerarp filterarp ringring hallring platering echodusty sidtape organradio stabgate stabauto arpcomputer e.pianocomputer accordion

LEADS 23

computer leadcomputer widepwm leadpwm widesaw leadreed leadsync leadsync screamhard synccomputer softcomputer glidefilter leadring leadsync ampsync tearwah leadphase leadecho leadshift leadcomputer whistlecomputer thincomputer fatring lead soft

BASS 22

computer basssaw basstri subreed bassacid bassacid openpwm basssync bassknock basscomputer subcomputer acid+computer wobsid 808sid knockacid driveacid delaysid wobsid half wobreese sidsid dub subsync growlfilter bass open

PADS 13

ring dronecomputer choircomputer padsweep padhollow padring shimmercomputer gate padring padtrance padpump padflange sweepwide choircomputer warm pad

EFFECTS 11

ring metalcomputer zapcomputer lasercomputer sirencomputer enginecomputer windcomputer alarmcomputer dropcomputer riserring crushcomputer noise riser

PLUCKS 5

computer pluckcomputer harpcomputer clavcomputer pizzcomputer kalimba

STRINGS 1

computer strings

BRASS 1

computer brass

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