Koshdukai's Music(al) Reason(ing)

As I previously mentioned , Thor can have more than the standard known 3 simultaneous OSCs. Here's an example of a 7xOSC Thor: 6 polyphonic OSCs + 1 monophonic OSC (For demonstration purposes, I enclosed this example in a Combinator, allowing easy access to some of the available parameters to tweak. This is completely usable as a standalone Thor patch, and basically that's the advantage of extending the available OSCs) (click to zoom) Low Frequency Oscillator One of Thor's components that can be used as an OSC is the LFO. If you look closely at the available LFO rates, you'll see that the rate can be pushed to audible frequencies (so it's not as "Low Frequency" as one would expect, uh? ;). LFO1 is easy to sync to the keyboard input, making it possible to control its frequency in the usual musical scale. To do the same with LFO2, you'll need to make some modulation routing. The Pitch-Wheel can also be added to the mix, to control both LFO's like a n

Usually, whenever we need to do some real-time messing with the Sample Start, we usually discard the NN-XT (because there's no way to automate it's sample-based Start/End, and Loop Start/End settings) ... ...and think immediately of the NN-19 because it has, right there, on the upper right corner, a little knob to easily tweak the Sample Start, controllable through Combinator's modulation routing matrix... ...but, there's a way to do the same thing with the NN-XT, indirectly :P There's a NN-XT setting that can be used to do exactly the same thing and be as controllable but through CV and affect all the loaded samples at the same time. :) Turning the NN-XT's Velocity S.Start all the way to the right will mimic the NN-19 Sample Start behavior, controllable by the CV values sent to the Gate CV input at the back of the NN-XT. Now, imagine using Thor's Sequencer Note and Gate/Velocity CV outputs to control the NN-XT (or a NN-19 inside a combinator) taking advanta

You know that Thor can have up to 8 independent built-in OSC's, 6 of them being polyphonic, don't you? A future Quick Tip will show you how to turn LFO1, Filter1 and Filter2 into perfectly playable sound producing polyphonic oscillators, and LFO2 and Filter3 as monophonic oscillators :P It's even possible to a certain degree to use Thor's Sequencer as a "user-definable" wave-shape monophonic OSC, but... I haven't sorted out some quirks with it, so... forget I mentioned this one ;) (at least for now!)

Sorry, but I only have time to show what's possible to do with some of the available rack devices, to show the CV values, like I mentioned in my previous post. It also shows one possible version of the CV Scope, using the CV Delay and CV2Audio2CV :) As soon as I have the time, I'll explain in detail how to achieve each of those unusual device uses. It's quite simple, as many will quickly figure out. Some of you may already use something similar to do your CV debugging, like I do.