It nice to know someone else enjoys using math and the formula controller in FL. A few years back, I made a neural network using a bunch of formula controllers, I had the output modulate parameters in serum. Love your videos. Keep it up!
3:36 yeah, this would be a really cool way to simulate sounds from the FDS, but may you could just do hi-fi to render the wave, stretch to one second, downsample to 64Hz and linearly interpolate. Fuck, that would be a better way to do it. Nevermind.
Wicked tutorial. I've always meant to get into the formula controller, but never got round to it. I saw your name mentioned in a thread about input mapping formulas, because I was interested in getting more functionality from automation clips as well as other controllers like the envelope controller and X Y Z controller, and someone mentioned this video. Definitely worth watching. Just a few questions: Having not really used this extensively, I'm unfamiliar with it's full functionality, so bear with me. It seems like this controller is free running, based on the host tempo. Is it possible you use assychronously with hertz values? Also can you trigger it with a gate signal. such as note on? That last one in particular would be of a lot of use.
Hi, thanks! The Formula Controller is most commonly used by syncing it to project tempo, but it's also possible to calculate a Hz value using a tempo variable, like this: ua-cam.com/video/gBDlwpi9_Lg/v-deo.html You can't directly connect midi into it, but you can use it with Envelope Controller, which takes a note and turns that into the control type Formula Controller understands. If you just want it to trigger as on/off, make the envelope shape a rectangle or turn it off.
@@nanospiraI Funnily enough, I just checked your video on hertz values after checking the rest of your channel. So the first question was kind of redudant. There's a lot of useful info in that video as there is in a lot of your other content. Thanks. Your method of applying an envelope was along the lines of what I would probably have done. Not sure if I can reset the phase to it's original starting value each time though. Might have to switch on my maths brain to get to thinking about that. Sonething I haven't done for decades. Lol. Probably easier to use something like Gatekeeper VST that has that functionality built in. Conflict between the practical musician/producer side of my brain, more interested in finishing tunes, and the nerd side, who likes experimemting and discovering stuff, ensues:)
So I'm still confused byu something. The formulas listed on your files all generate the waves at like 1 hz, and it doesn't seem like there's some sort of explanation of how to make the conversion to the pitches used in the video after 3:37. I get that this is an advanced video but considering that none of the plugins shown here seem to actually convert the waves to a reasonable pitch, I'm baffled about how I'm supposed to actually make anything listenable with what I got from all of this.
Hi. You can drop the created waveforms into synth plugins for example, basically it's a method of making custom waveform samples. Most synths have an option to import waveforms and you can adjust the pitch there. It is possible to get real time audio without converting to waveform samples using the Formula Controller and Voltage Controller, but the resolution is too low at audio rate to reproduce those waveforms accurately. The low frequency when creating the samples helps retain them, so it can then be sped up in a synthesizer or sampler.
One of the best tutorials in which I have learned a lot. Thank you.
It nice to know someone else enjoys using math and the formula controller in FL. A few years back, I made a neural network using a bunch of formula controllers, I had the output modulate parameters in serum. Love your videos. Keep it up!
That sounds awesome, and thanks!
This is great. Thank you Nanospiral
Great video! Thank you a lot for such efforts in educational field! My respect, as usually! :)
Thank you! I appreciate it
Great! i never was able to use voltage controller like that, honestly voltage controller was a forgotten tool for me. Thanks
Yeah I've been using it in all the "wrong" ways for a while now and it's pretty handy and fun to experiment with 😁
3:36 yeah, this would be a really cool way to simulate sounds from the FDS, but may you could just do hi-fi to render the wave, stretch to one second, downsample to 64Hz and linearly interpolate. Fuck, that would be a better way to do it. Nevermind.
What sounds better with this technique - additive or subtractive?
Do you have a stem degree? Feels like it. Cool video 👍🏽👍🏽
I studied software engineering but didn’t finish due to life getting in the way. But I was there for most of the good stuff :D
@@nanospiraI ah okay. It definitely looks like you retained some of the knowledge. I'm glad you're putting it to good use 🤙🏽
supercool!
Wicked tutorial. I've always meant to get into the formula controller, but never got round to it. I saw your name mentioned in a thread about input mapping formulas, because I was interested in getting more functionality from automation clips as well as other controllers like the envelope controller and X Y Z controller, and someone mentioned this video. Definitely worth watching.
Just a few questions: Having not really used this extensively, I'm unfamiliar with it's full functionality, so bear with me. It seems like this controller is free running, based on the host tempo. Is it possible you use assychronously with hertz values? Also can you trigger it with a gate signal. such as note on? That last one in particular would be of a lot of use.
Hi, thanks! The Formula Controller is most commonly used by syncing it to project tempo, but it's also possible to calculate a Hz value using a tempo variable, like this: ua-cam.com/video/gBDlwpi9_Lg/v-deo.html
You can't directly connect midi into it, but you can use it with Envelope Controller, which takes a note and turns that into the control type Formula Controller understands. If you just want it to trigger as on/off, make the envelope shape a rectangle or turn it off.
@@nanospiraI Funnily enough, I just checked your video on hertz values after checking the rest of your channel. So the first question was kind of redudant. There's a lot of useful info in that video as there is in a lot of your other content. Thanks. Your method of applying an envelope was along the lines of what I would probably have done. Not sure if I can reset the phase to it's original starting value each time though. Might have to switch on my maths brain to get to thinking about that. Sonething I haven't done for decades. Lol. Probably easier to use something like Gatekeeper VST that has that functionality built in. Conflict between the practical musician/producer side of my brain, more interested in finishing tunes, and the nerd side, who likes experimemting and discovering stuff, ensues:)
So I'm still confused byu something. The formulas listed on your files all generate the waves at like 1 hz, and it doesn't seem like there's some sort of explanation of how to make the conversion to the pitches used in the video after 3:37. I get that this is an advanced video but considering that none of the plugins shown here seem to actually convert the waves to a reasonable pitch, I'm baffled about how I'm supposed to actually make anything listenable with what I got from all of this.
Hi. You can drop the created waveforms into synth plugins for example, basically it's a method of making custom waveform samples. Most synths have an option to import waveforms and you can adjust the pitch there. It is possible to get real time audio without converting to waveform samples using the Formula Controller and Voltage Controller, but the resolution is too low at audio rate to reproduce those waveforms accurately. The low frequency when creating the samples helps retain them, so it can then be sped up in a synthesizer or sampler.
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Just the other day I was wondering if this was possible. 🤔
Wait.. If we add an xyz controller to our calculations,
we can just simply draw the waveform we want. Right?
10:30 🤣
Nice, Max4Live is better though xDDDD
you're probably the only one using math they thought us in school irl. Makes me wanna learn math now cause i'm terrible at it. even basic math 🥲😭
It becomes easier when you apply it to something you're interested in :)