3 Modules #96: Marbles, Plaits, Rings

It sings. How cute!

Patch notes:

This patch is mostly about playing around with Plaits' speech synthesis mode, but I'm passing its audio through Rings for that huge reverb effect. Rings is in the "secret" chord mode (see: https://www.infinitesimal.eu/modules/... ), in which it has a built in reverb that is also applied to whatever is fed into its audio input.

At the very beginning, as my hand is blocking the view, I'm adjusting Rings' Damping (note decay) and Position (reverb amount) to go from short to sustained notes. Then I'll gradually turn up the Brightness to – you guessed it – make the chord sounds brighter as the speech sounds from Plaits come in.

Both Rings and Plaits receive the same quantized note sequence from Marbles' X2, but they're being triggered at different times: t1 to Plaits' Trig and t3 to Rings' Strum. I'm using the alternative green mode for the t section: weighted random triggers, but the channels are independent – i.e. t1 and t3 are not exclusive, like in the normal green mode, but they have the ability to trigger at the same time.

For the X section, I'm using the yellow mode, which lets me set the remaining two channels, X1 and X3, to a slewed output without messing with the quantized, stepped output from X2. I'm using these slewed CV signals to modulate Plaits' Timbre (vocal quality) and Morph (selection of words and phonemes).

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