Welcome
to the Nord Modular and Micro Modular 'tips and tricks'
section! The workshops of this section are created by two
very skilled Nord Modular users: Rob
Hordijk and Roland
Kuit.
On
the 'tips and tricks' pages you will find various information
regarding sound synthesis techniques. With every topic comes
a workshop where you can follow the practical, non-mathematical,
musician-oriented examples. The patches are kept as simple
as possible showing only the basic connections. So it's
up to you to color the tone to your liking, add modulation,
etc., thus turning them into musically useful patches. Occasionally
there might be a 'professional' patch as a bonus.
If
you have a Nord Modular or Nord MicroModular synthesizer
you can download the example patches directly from the workshops
into the Modular Editor V3.03 program and your synth and
play with them. Just click on the patch image to download
the actual patch to your Modular. If you do not have a Nord
Modular you can download the Modular Editor V3.03 software
here and check out the patches
visually.
Topics
available:
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Basics
of sound synthesis on the Nord Modular
This
extensive section describes the basics of synthesis.
(By Rob Hordijk)
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Basic
synthesis |
Oscillator
synchronisation
This
topic covers hardsync, softsync, FM-sync and VOSIM,
a special application of sync.
(By Rob Hordijk)
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Sync
workshop
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This
topic covers different types of FM, like linear FM,
Phase Modulation and fixed formant FM.
(By Rob Hordijk)
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FM
Workshop
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This
topic is full of interesting and fun examples of the
S&H module.
(By Roland Kuit)
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Sample
and Hold Workshop
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It's
too short for echos, but it's a valuable tool that
can be used in a variety of ways, creating both sound
effects as well as physical models of plucked string
sounds and resonant bodies.
(By Rob Hordijk)
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Delay
Module Workshop
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Mastering
those yellow connections.
(By Rob Hordijk)
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Logic
Workshop
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This
section describes the principles behind ring- and
amplitude modulation.
(By Roland Kuit)
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Ring-
and Amplitude Modulation Workshop |
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This
section describes how you can use the Nord Modular
to program rhytmic patterns.
(By Roland Kuit)
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Rhythm
Programming Workshop |
