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Hello and welcome to the 25th synthesis techniques challenge! In this weekly series we're exploring the myriad of ways one can synthesize sound, starting simply and getting more complex as we go. There's no prizes or anything, these are just so you can better learn your tools and maybe learn some new things in the process.

In episode 3 of "How to Use Simple Modulation Creatively with Avareth Taika", we're gonna delve deeper into modulation interactions, basically ways you can manipulate one modulation source with another to get a more complex modulation source. A simple example you've likely seen often is ring modulation of two LFOs, which works just like ringmod with VCOs (discord.com/channels/430169749696282625/430176314629160973/947903273703206952) but it's really low frequency. But we can do waaaaay wackier stuff!

...You ever just phase modulate a modulator with another modulator so you get modulated phase modulation modulation? I do rather often because it's super useful! Unlike phase modulation like you may hear in a DX-7, phase modulating a low frequency source like an LFO or even an envelope allows you to effectively remap the signal, adding folds to transients of envelopes by phase modulating with an LFO, or creating classic FM waveshapes but for modulation purposes (yes, this means you can indeed modulate your donk with a donk for ultimate donkitude). BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

If you call in the next 30 minutes, we'll also include analog logic and offsets! Analog logic allows you to process transient signals, effectively giving you the positive or negative portions of any signal, audio or modulation. This means you can create wacky clipped LFOs by ANDing with an envelope, get a randomly bouncing signal with two sine LFOs OR'd together, or - and here's a fun trick - split any modulation signal in half based on positive or negative, then offset each by the maximum value in the opposite direction. Offsetting is just mixing a signal with a DC voltage, opposite meaning if you have an OR'd signal with a peak of +5V, offset it by -5V to make it entirely negative. If you then mix the two offset signals together, yo get some... pretty wacky signals lol

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from Flesh, released January 4, 2023
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music producer Thomas Wulfe a.k.a Waxcide and dj DNSK - both representing and releasing the material via Waxcide Collective, a new music collective for minds alike in techno, house, acid, etc

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