Programmable (?) gating effect

Ganool · Post by **Ganool** » Sun Apr 14, 2002 11:12 pm

Hi, I'm a bit new to the Modular II but that doesn't keep me from trying to do what I want.

I am highly insatisfied with all the gating effects for Cubase VST so I thought I'd make my own in Modular II. And in just a couple of minutes I got a rough version running, but... with a couple of problems.

My idea looks like this. I take the signal from audio in and make the gate-effect by letting a 24dB filter (that's controlled by a SEQ-device) turn on and off the signal.

The big problem is that as the filter cuts the signal way to fast I get crackles/snaps. I was thinking of putting some kind of AR-envelope to just smooth the gating effect, but it only smoothes out the start (and the end) of the whole effect - not the individual "gates".

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Carl.

castol · Post by **castol** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 3:10 am

hello ganool,

welcome to planetz!

there are a few gate patches in the presets included with the modII, and i think there are few on the site here. i wouldn't recall their names off hand.

going from scratch i can tell you you'll need a vca somewhere in yer patch (to open/close the signal), triggered by an envelope, and the envelope being triggered for e.g. by a gate sequencer (key input works good as well)

using only a filter would work (sort of), i think...but you'd need a control seq instead of a gate ,and then...feeding the freq mod input (frequency would need to be turned down all the way, mod input turned up). so, that from step to step you could vary the frequency of the filter.....0 would be off, 127 full on.

hope this helps.

best.

//c

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at0m · Post by **at0m** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 3:34 am

Did you try these? Don't let it disturb your modular experience

-the standard Pulsar device (including sidechain, it's in the dynamics section)

--=NEUTRON=- Dub-A-Duck

-John Bowen made a Gated Crossfade. (is it on the 3.01 cd in Demo folder?)

-And there should be a sidechain gate on http://www.huicholity.com.

Of course, modular gates are also possible!

at0mic.

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castol · Post by **castol** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 4:02 am

yah, good suggestion atomic.

its fun to say to ones self, hmmm...i need x, i just think i can build in in the modular! and go of on some tangent and make it come true.

dubaduck is me fav gating device. i mean a gate is a gate is a gate, right? my experiment in building a 4 part audio gate was very large and messy. although i did discover a weird behavior with gate signals (on/on --> off/off), which i used in me sine space patch for doing one touch dronning.

orbitone also have a small simple gate, "the chopper", its in the devices section, as well as the devices atomic suggested.

Ganool · Post by **Ganool** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 5:46 am

Cheers! Why inventing the wheel for the second time? Well... if it's fun I suppose. I'll check them out and see if they are any good for my purposes. If not I'm sure I'll have something to learn from them.

Carl.

Ganool · Post by **Ganool** » Tue Apr 16, 2002 11:03 pm

Again. Thanks for all good advices! Now I got everything I need.

Cheers!

Carl.

castol · Post by **castol** » Wed Apr 17, 2002 3:27 am

hey no prob, glad we could help.

best.

//c