My New Favorite Modulation Type // Noise as a Mod Source and how to fake it.
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
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I've slept on this modulation type for way too long. I didn't realize that using Noise as a modulation source on a synthesizer could be so powerful! What's great about this type of modulation is that you can do it on almost any synthesizer as long as you have an LFO that can go into Random or Sample & Hold mode. I show you how in the video! Time stamps below.
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00:00 How Noise came into my Life
01:02 The Patch I Just Made
01:38 How I Made It
03:15 Download FREE Peak Patches
03:44 How to FAKE Noise on Any Synth
04:20 Why I Want Noise in a Patch
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06:23 Noise to Pitch
08:25 Noise to Osc Shape
11:16 Noise to Delay Time!
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18:00 Outro Jam
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"Not a scientist, just a regular nerd." - That needs to be on a shirt, for sure, haha! What a perfect ending...great work!
What an elegant synth the Novation Peak.
In an analog synthesizer, noise is ALWAYS a component of every signal. Anytime you’re modulating anything in an analog domain, a small amount of noise will be part of that modulation. This is a way of bringing that animation and instability to the extremely precise signal path of a digital synthesizer.
"noise as a modulation source adds the thoughts and feelings of noise without adding the distractions of it [approx.]"
Nice, that's a pretty slick explanation right there
I used to do stuff like this on my Microfreak all the time when I had one! The way you can route stuff on that machine is bonkers.
Thanks for the video, it's the first time noise as a mod source really made sense to me, love the sounds of it messing with the oscillator pitch! Can't wait to try it out later today. And love your clear and patient explanations, big fan of your channel
Man, that last patch 💜. Stellar video! Thanks Ricky.
My favorite synth channel right now. Always inspiring, always contagious. Thanks!
Nice video! I don't have a peak but I really love watching these types of videos because it can pertain to more than just the peak, it's more of a talk about the approach to creating an architecture of sound and that's what I'm most interested in. I love using noise to create atmosphere or using the sample and hold lfo to mix things up or add grit.
Such a cool trick, I shared this in my Prophet-6 video with a brass patch! Using the mod wheel during the attack makes it sound like a real brass instrument being blown, and as a static mod source it makes any patch have a cool lofi vibe, definitely some secret sauce here!
I sometimes put a random lfo on the delay time but when it's locked into a tempo which leads to glitchy delay blips! Great vid bro! This is the good stuff 🔥
oh damn that sounds like a good idea! i'll have to try that out to have some cool rhythmic texture in the background
If I remember it right, applying a filter to a Signal also changes the phase. The amount of Phaseshift depends on the number of poles. Thats why filters usually have 2 or 4 poles and not 1 or 3, since there are some phase issues.
Don´t take this for shure, but i ment to read this somewhere while digging for circuit schematics and stuff for filters.
Amplitude modulation with noise is always a favorite of mine!
Edit: Try modulating a resonant bandpass ;)
Cheers!
If it is a FIR filter, it will be "linear phase", so no net effect on the phase, just an overall delay in the signal. FIRs are very common in digital synths because of this property and the fact they are very easy to implement. IIR/ pole-zero filters can cause phase distortion. The extent depends on pole placement (resonance and dropoff rate). Higher Q=more phase distortion. Steeper dropoff=more phase distortion.
You can absolutely have a 1 or a 3-pole filter (TB-303 uses a 18db/Oct 3-pole filter for example), it's just that second order (2-pole) filter topologies are fairly efficient to implement, so you end up with a lot of designs cascading them to create 4-pole filters. To make a three-pole filter worthwhile you have to be using one of the few topologies where it's easy to add single poles, for example the Moog ladder filter where you just add another "rung" for each pole.
Thank you Ricky, that is a really good video. Super inspiration for my next session with my Summit. Love it!
just to clarify, for anyone using Ricky's LFO workaround, or looking to use noise as a *modulated* modulator: a stepped random LFO is commonly created from a (white) noise source feeding into a sample and hold circuit, clocked by a trigger or modulation source which switches instantaneously from positive to zero voltage (DC/unipolar) or positive to negative voltage (AC/bipolar), usually a square or saw wave LFO. to create a smoothed random LFO, route the output of the sample and hold circuit through a lag processor a.k.a. slew generator.
if you do not have noise as a directly available or patchable modulation source, but want to achieve a similar grainy character (like modulating Filter Cutoff/OSC Freq. or pulse width directly with noise) with a built-in stepped/smoothed random LFO, crank the speed to >20Hz where possible.
on a related note, filtering white noise does not exactly "fine tune" the frequency - white noise in this sense being all audible frequencies randomized and perceived simultaneously - but rather limits the bandwidth of possible random frequencies to be output at any given moment.
Man, that sounds awesome. I just have a Microfreak, with it I can imitate noise using the random LFO (which of course doesn't sound super authentic, but it'll do the trick). Well at least I know what to look out for in case I ever buy another synth in the future. Given this video, the ability to use analog noise as mod source will be my No 1 must have feature to look out for, cause I instantly and absolutely fell in love with the sound scapes you produced
Magic. Every one of your Peak videos makes me scurry off to play with it some more. Seriously thinking about a second one at this point.
Hey Ricky! Just wanted to say I watch all your videos and love them all. I usually never comment, but this one was something else!
Now I need to test this on my eurorack case ( thinking of modulating Mimeophon rate with some red noise 👀 )
Thanks a bunch for sharing the knowledge and giving chill vibes every time 👍
Amazing -> no hesitation to get this sound pack. Thank you so much!
Thanks for sharing the noisy knowledge and the dope patches. They sound amazing!
Great vid - I’m always using noise as a mod source. I love sending noise and and slow moving LFO as separate modulations to freq cutoff on my ES Black Polivoks VCF - swish for days
You always make everything you do sound interesting man, thanks for always serving that heat 🔥
that sound at 2:05 is so reminiscent of "the captain" by the knife. crazy cause i just found that album "silent shout" on vinyl at amoeba like 2 hrs ago. congrats on tapping into olof dreijer territory; that's next level. excellent vid!
LOVE that album!
Oh maaaan! I love randomness. Up to now I always used a random LFO setting on LFO 1 to modulate e.g. the filter cutoff or wave shape and then LFO 2 to modulate the frequency of LFO 1. That also gives that "gritty grainy" sound (If anyone's interested, I also made a quick video about it). I love this for ambient :)
Thanks for pointing all the stuff about the internal noise mod source Ricky !!!! 🙏
Noise as mod-source is definitely one of the top new features on peak/summit that I'm very much appreciating!
The mind just loves these little bits of randomness that keep tickling its interest.
Nobody will ever be able to claim that peak/summit sounds clean and sterile throwing this stuff around the mod matrix ;)
And thank you for sharing those patches, these remind me of some of the FM patches in my Yamaha FB01s. Gritty and always moving.
Nice uses of the new Mod source! Gonna check out those patches, cheers!
Had to revisit this video to see if I could do it on Syntakt. Love the grit. Thanks much.
Inspiring as usual, Enrique. Love your Peak/Summit videos.
Cool video, one of the coolest things you can do with noise is the "Tomita Whistle Patch". Noise through a VCA using envelope with release and into resonant high pass filter. Its scrumptious!
wow u got that synth sounding amazing at the end
Some great content here! I'm not new at all to modulating various parametres with noise but I still learned some and got some new ideas :)
Dope video Enrique. Got some patch inspiration for sure.
Inspiring! I can't wait to give this a try.
The early part - applying noise from Osc. 3, sounds to me like a way to get the grit/warmth quality of reduced bit depth, yet doing it this way you can still get the dynamic range of fuller bit depths.
And then that sound for the outro jam? Totally CS-80 time!
Ah man, was literally thinking about making a (way less good) version of this video... Love using noise as a modulation source a subtle amount is a real game changer especially when you're using digital oscillators that sounds a bit cold.
the last patch sound is so atmospheric, quite moving.
One of my faves too for sure! Been modulating everything I can with noise on the Matriarch recently
the blanket shirt is so dope. nice video homie
Wow, that's a beautiful patch !
“Snap,crackle,pop; don’t sue me!”
Priceless and the noise suggestion was dope too🤙🏾
That patch is awesome !!
Damn, that sounds so good!
sine wave modulated by noise & a nice reverb is one of my favorite synth sounds :)
Fuck yea! Not many people talk about it, and it's a modulation source that's often missing in synths and samplers. Great sound design tool. Putting noise into the time of a really short delay gives great lo-fi sounds
Good sounding synth!!!
Hah I just watched a Tefty and Meems video this morning with the Peak where he was doing this saying it’s his favorite modulation source using noise. Then see your video this afternoon. Funny
I think I have seen it on your desk… But Fairfield Circuitry’s “Shallow Water” is by far one of my favorite subtle modulations to bring “ghost in the machine” Soul to a sound etc. Check it out, most of the demos use the effect to bluntly, it is best used just beyond where you can hear it turning on IMO.
This was one of my favorites
Yeah yeah! Noise as a mod source is so great! I love to use it to add a little bit of wobble to filters.
I think I can watch Ricky playing with peak all day long
Nice and wooly Boardsofcanadesque tones! 👏🙌
The sine wave idea sounds like my old noisy lowery organ with the noise-ish and crackle
Yeahh modulating cuttow with noise is very cool especially on poly synth patches. however it can easilly turn into gnarly mess, you have to controll it well. it is also cool to give it some kind of rytmical dynamics, so you can assign envelope in loop mode to modulate that noise level.
Watch out Vangelis, here comes Ricky! Nice patchwork, fella.
Great video 👍. Some cool things to try; even (or especially) on my humble Neutron.
Love the casually placed NE screwdriver in this video about....noise 🙂
So....beautiful....
stereo modulation on these patches would make my eyes start to water
Oscillator 3 is phase shifted in a way where it's valleys are aligned with osc 1 and 2's peak, thus the cancellation of sound.
At 15:38 - what you're saying about digital synths that can't keep up with LFO modulation - sounds like you mean zipper noise. There's a nice quick explanation at sweetwater if you search for zipper noise
That's one of my favorite techniques to use it on filter. I also got interesting results when patching noise to the delay time on modular. edit: oh I shoud have watched the video until the end
ok the peak sounds more and more appealing, really deep possibilites
The filter FM is a classic Prophet thing - it makes the sound fuzzy and brittle and makes the beat frequency more pronounced
Noise makes a great mod source. Thanks.
noise as a mod source is lit .... pink noise as a clock source for randomness is also a great trick for many systems
Ain't that purrrrty! ❤
The noise mod patches are great and sound very R Beny. He must use a similar technique
Key and peele: “Nois!”
Deru~ish, luv it
Something I really want in a mod matrix is a static random value that resets with every note-on, and I want each voice to have its own value generated, and I want every instance of this modulation source to have its own independent value.
This would allow you to generate very specific and directed "slop" points in the sound.
oh that could be cool and waaayy more controlled than my usual S&H LFO at a low rate with keysync on, haha. Has a synth done this before?
@@RickyTinez Amos is sitting right in front of me and he says the Moog One does it now after I made noise about it for a year lol
So uh… when’s the Ricky Tinez patch collection coming to Components? 🤞
Here's hot tip for you, Ricky _ try using any radio (tuned between stations) as a noise source
Nice. Would be interesting to hear examples with pink noise. As pink noise is all frequencies per octave, what impact would it make when it tracks the keyboard?
If you recorded the live input with a tube preamp/channel splitter/guitar amp, does that affect the quality of sound from a synth?
The last patch belongs on a movie soundtrack...... Very dark and haunting.
damn, ricky
haha thanks for the support LMP!
You should do a preset bank for novation
Hi there, I'm wondering if peak has osc 1 and 2 as source modulation?
Holy sh*t it’s digital amulets!!!
3h live jams sessions plz!
so, Habit Video coming soon??? I can see it on the desk :)
Video idea: noise as modulation source in your modular rig 😇
neutron at the ready....patch time.....ty
NOICE VID M8
I need to sort My Peak out Im so busy all the time that I have hardy used it. I'm getting it set up tomorrow, I want to use it.
I was the same, but it's actually super quick and easy to set it up and get going with patch design.
is that a lil habit I spy
noise rules! 8)
As a breath controller player I’m particularly excited about noise modulation finally coming to Peak. Now we just need a dedicated filter just for noise - which is probably a pipe dream, bc that’s a pretty breath-specific desire 😂
I should add: one I can modulate with breath or key tracking
I just thought "wtf is breath control?" Searched it up and ended up spending like an hour watching dope videos of this dude on UA-cam, came back to this video and realized that dude was you 😂😂
@@danielmulholland5869 😂
The noise has a HPF and LPF for it on the Peak
@@the8bitdeity but not midi controlled, to my knowledge
How would you describe a synth? Not a scientist, just a regular nerd…. Haha. Glad you’re not a biologist. Great instructional video as always
Is it just me, or did Ricky sound a bit spaced out by the end there?
Was that delicious or what?