This is my submission to the 10th GGD original song contest. Sam Trenholme, Instagram Goddess, written recorded produced and mastered by Sam Trenholme, instrumental (G major, 131BPM)

Instagram Goddess

This is another slow pad done on the JP-08; again, ACB-VCO1 is a sawtooth, and ACB-VC02 is a modulated pulse width wave. I have removed the high pass filter and increased the LFO speed. The image shows the patch’s parameters.

JP-08 pad demo #2

This is an acid resonant bass line being played by the JP-08’s sequencer. The sounds is a very resonant sawtooth wave, along with a sine wave one octave below to give the bass more body. The image is the settings to get this sound.

JP-08 demo: Acid bass line

This is a demo of the Roland JP-08 playing a slow legato sound made from two filtered sawtooth ACB-VCO oscillators. The image are the parameters used to generate this sound.

JP-08 slow sawtooth

This is a demo of a small drum room preset for Valhalla Vintage Verb; the reverb starts at 0:19 The preset can be downloaded from http://caulixtla.com/JP-08/VVV-preset-1.html The drum machine is a Korg ER-1

VVV Small Drum Room

This is a legato sound I made on my Roland JP-08 which is one of my reverb acid tests; many reverbs with long decays ring really badly on the tail with this sound. This patch is for slow ambient sounds; with percussive sounds, this preset will have a lot of rattling. Parameters in image or at http://caulixtla.com/JP-08/VVV-preset-3.html 

VVV Big Ambience

I demonstrate my “Canyon reverb” preset for Vahalla Vintage Verb.  The first sound is a reverb acid test played on a Roland JP-08; the second sound, at just before 20 seconds in, is a snare drum. Explanation of parameters and the preset to copy and paste in to VVV: http://caulixtla.com/JP-08/VVV-preset-4.html

Canyon Demo

This is a demonstration of an algorithm I have developed for MTurboReverb.  First, we hear a dry piano, then we hear the same piano being put through MTurboReverb. Note that this algorithm is quite flexible, being being able to go from sounding like a small, thick drum chamber, to a large recital hall, all the way up to to a 30-second long ambient sustain.

MTurboReverb demo: Piano hall

This is a demonstration of an algorithm I have developed for MTurboReverb.  First, we hear a dry drum beat, then we hear the same drum beat being put through MTurboReverb. Note that this algorithm is quite flexible, being being able to go from sounding like a small, thick drum chamber, to a large recital hall, all the way up to to a 30-second long ambient sustain.

MTurboReverb demo: Drum chamber

This is a demonstration of an algorithm I have developed for MTurboReverb.  Hear, we hear a synthesizer pad being put through MTurboReverb. Note that this algorithm is quite flexible, being being able to go from sounding like a small, thick drum chamber, to a large recital hall, all the way up to to a 30-second long ambient sustain.

MTurboReverb: big ambience

This is another demo of the algorithm I have developed for MTurboReverb. Without changing the algorithm at all, I was able to reduce metallic resonances by increasing the modulation. While this would give a noticeable warble with pitched sounds, the modulation is not very audible with these drum sounds. 

The attached image are all of the “Easy” parameters used in the reverb for this demo.

MTurboReverb demo: Drum chamber demo #2

In this demo, the piano starts out dry and I fade in the reverb.

Let’s have only one active module, LR1, and let’s put this topology in it:

7b[a];stfb[#[b[v(0.1)];fl;fh;a;b[swap]]];

This is a reasonable approximation of the classic algorithms from the 224 which gave us the reverb in, among many other things, the legendary introduction to “Blade Runner.” For best results, I set “size” to 15%, “Delay Max” to 33.3%, and length is 500ms. Complexity is 32 to minimize ringing and metallic resonances (yes, David Griesinger was able to reduce ringing with fewer nodes by carefully hand tuning all of the allpass filters and delay times, but here in 2017, we’ll just brute force it)

Circle 8 reverb in MTurboReverb

Does this voice say “Yanny” or “Laurel”? To my ears, the first one sounds like “Laurel”, the second one sounds like “Yowie”, and the third one sounds like “Laurel.”

Yanny - Or - Laurel - 3x

The full patch, including chorus (flanger) settings is in the image.

JD - Xi - SuperSawPad

Comparison of digital and analog PCM on the JD-Xi.  Chorus (JDXi’s built in flanger) added to get a sense of how it will sound in a mix.

JDXi - PCM - Digital - Vs - Analog

In this track, I take a Deepmind12 and play a simple C major chord using a basic patch: Sawtooth with some 1-octave-down sub-octave (DCO2), in poly mode (read: No unison detune). The filter is two-pole, about halfway down, no resonance, and the envelope has a slow attack and release.

That is run first through two low-cost mono analog chorus pedals in series (The “Azor” one, but the brand names for these kinds of low cost items change all the time), then one chorus, then dry (no chorus), to show how even a very low cost pedal can really thicken up the sound of a DM12.

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