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Formantic modelling

Have you ever thought that some guitar or synth patches sound like a specific vowel (in a phonetic sense, not as written vowels). There is even an effect that is named after the phonetic vowels it sound like: A wah-wah, where speaking its name make you vocalise the transition from [u] to [a] (see/hear IPA vowel chart with audio for...

leander / 2021-01-30 / signal processing / 0 Comments

Noise gating bitcrushers (Patch: Signum)

Here is a thing about bitcrushers I noted recently: At low resolutions, they also work like noise gates. A bitcrusher is an effect that enables you to reduce sampling rate and resolution of a given digital signal. If you use a stand-alone bitcrusher pedal, it typically contains an analogue-to-digital converter that first turns the input signal in to a sequence...

leander / 2020-12-26 / patch, signal processing, sy-300 / 0 Comments