What about this new granular synth?

sonicstrav · Post by **sonicstrav** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 4:36 pm

Any info on this?

spacef · Post by **spacef** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:30 pm

I found a nice spot that i like on the granular osc , when it does a kind of tubular FM. but at musikmess it is a bit difficult to judge with the background noise, i didn't try many presets neither. John Bowen had a tour by the developper himself , so it was a more educated test.
nb: i say it is light, but i think i remember now i was tetsing in Xcite. I also tested it in the Scope v 5.0 and Vista, it seemed as light to me but didn't check dsp at all in fact). The preset list was the same (i remember having told two viitors to "press P" to change presets (

).

petal · Post by **petal** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:00 pm

Sounds like you were "under the influence"

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:06 am

Passing on some good vibes from somewhere not as exotic as Vienna.

My info is on a purely NTN basis.

Marvin · Post by **Marvin** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:31 am

strav100 wrote:Any info on this?

If I remeber right it is called gizzmo. Ralf told me it needs a certain DSP amount. But with the new hardware >>> no prob!

Since DSP power is now virtually unlimited the gate is open for very powerful algos to follow.

julian · Post by **julian** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:20 am

Hello everybody!
I'm the one responsible for the Gizzmo

here are some specs:

Sound Generators
2 granular sampling oscillators (granular parameters: playback speed, sample length, grain density, grainsize, position)
1 bandpass filtered noise generator

Envelope
2 envelope generators with variable slopes.

LFO
2 multi wave LFOs per voice
7 waveforms ( sine, rec, saw up/down, tri, random, smooth random)
adjustable phase, delay, clock sync and freerun/retrigger mode.
Both LFOs are audio rate capable and can be used to create rich FM-sounds with the provided keytracking feature.

Filter
LP / HP
Formant filter
Comb Filter

FX
Ringmodulator
Sample rate reducer
Distortion

Sequencer
1 Note Sequencer - classical analog style sequencer with pitch, volume and gate.
2 Modulation Sequencers per voice with different playmodes (loop, key trigger, EG Mode) it can be used as 16-stage-multi-EG with attack, loop, and release phase

x/y – Pad
free routable to 34 targets

Mod Matrix
8 slots
1 source and 2 Target with adjustable amount per slot
15 modulation sources
35 modulation targets

all modulation paths are sync signals, so you can also use the OSCs as mod source and make nice FM/AM sounds.

FX Routing
Here the position of the redux/distortion, comb and formant module in the signal path can be changed.
Possible locations are before and after the LP/HP filter, as well as at the end of the signal path after the amplifier.

Since I'm on easter holiday at the moment, I haven't got any soundsamples at hand. but they will follow

have a nice day,
Julian

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:24 am

I'm gonna have a nice year w/ this !!!

Could you post any pics since you are the creator?

Any sound demos?

BTW, a very nice first post,......welcome to the Z

Thanks, this looks very enticing.

decimator · Post by **decimator** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:03 am

Hello !

Can the playback speed be negative ? ( reverse )

julian · Post by **julian** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:13 am

sure

it can be adjusted from -2 to 2.
there's an additional speed boost option that expands the range from -10 to 10.
you can even modulate the playback speed gradually from positive to negative.

so long,
jul

hifiboom · Post by **hifiboom** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:42 am

great....
the hidden man from SC.

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:04 am

Were you the chick sitting down and snacking in the video ?

decimator · Post by **decimator** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:25 am

That should rock then, just great !

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:26 am

Hi Jul,

Gizzmo, sounds very cool.
Looking forward to hearing it.

Post by **hubird** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:57 pm

welcom Julian, quite a first post

great to have you around.
it looks like SC makes kind a statement with Gizzmo, as it's beyond the classic substractive aproach

Very smart, it also looks like a winner having read your description :-

borg · Post by **borg** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:21 pm

I'm very interested to give it a go... A demo video would be great

bosone · Post by **bosone** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:33 am

"sampling oscillator" means that we could load our samples?

johnbowen · Post by **johnbowen** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:16 am

Yes, you load whatever samples you want, like usual Scope process.

-john b.

bill3107 · Post by **bill3107** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:26 am

Bienvenido Julian ! And thanks for the details !!!

maky325 · Post by **maky325** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:55 am

And now some sound preview

julian · Post by **julian** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 10:38 pm

Hello everybody,

I finally made it and recorded some random sounds from the Gizzmo Synth.
Nothing special, just some freehand sounds I recorded on the fly.

http://www.chipmusik.de/gizzzzmo.mp3

First you hear the timestretching abilities. The flute sample is triggered and I'm tweaking the speed parameter in realtime.

afterwards I play some notes and the speed is set to zero. I'm tweaking the position parameter to 'scroll' through the flute sample.

after that, you hear some random presets. The Vocal like sequence is played with the sequencers. No formant filter is used. It's a vocal sample containing a-e-i-o-u and the modulation sequencer is used to vary the position in the sample.

No external FX were used. Audio directly recorded from the gizzmo audio out.

I hope you like it!

so long,

julian

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