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Stereo algebra.

We love quintuplets.

Took my tongue drum to a jam session on Saturday. I was really shy to play but in the end I had lots of fun playing with them. 😊

I recently found and reverse-engineered several functions for phase distortion synthesis. I'm cooking something up, and I'm getting closer and closer to finishing it. :D

YouTube video by iicaras tongue_drum_idea_01

New instrument to practice <(￣︶￣)>.
I wish I had a stereo recording setup. >.<

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0jB...

Saw Sungazer again with @adamneely.bsky.social , Shawn Crowder, Jared Yee, and Joshua De La Victoria today, and absolutely lost my mind. They also played all the pieces I hoped they would play. What an incredible night, I was smiling and bouncing around the entire time.

Day 101: A much more elegant way of doing the same thing. 😋

Day 99 & 100: Yesterday I did a few random things like working on a few patches, studying sounds and presets, etc. It definitely did things yet I didn't feel as productive. Similarly for today, but I did figure out how to recreate Vital's formant warping in the Grid. -w-

Day 97 & 98: I was quite busy both days. I first combined the XY phase-distortion setup with the 4D wavetable patch to make the ultimate 2*XY wavetable patch. On the day after I enhanced my random band pitcher rack to create random wild bass jams.

Day 96: XY phase distortion.

Day 94 & 95: Yesterday I played around with the Phasor module and manipulating the phase signal. I also tried doing some math with it. Today I made an XY patch of multiple phase modules and made a cool sample jam with it. Moreover, I've been working on my article on both days.>w<

Day 92 & 93: Yesterday I started writing an article about the math of Phase distortion and made presets with the methods. Today I figured out a better way to formulate the math so I have to rewrite the whole thing 😭. I also played with Phasor and the phase modules in Bitwig. >w<

Day 91: I mathed real hard today.

Day 89 & 90: Yesterday I tried reverse-engineering a sound from Euphoria by Ata and got close but I thought the AM needed to be a bit more intense. Today I had a eureka moment: I unlocked the power of phase distortion!

Day 87 & 88: I didn't end up doing much but tried reverse engineering a pad I love but I hit a roadblock, so now this time feels kinda wasted.

Day 86: I have a wavetable obsession problem.
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(Glad I saved the note I recorded the original sample with. -w-)

Day 85: Today I made wavetables again, some of which I am really happy with! They turned out so cool! I tried making a psy bass with one of them and by extension ended up practising making a psytrance beat. 😋

Day 84: I don't remember all the random stuff I did. At least I processed some TTS voice shots, made more wavetables, and randomly made a pluck arp which took waaay too long, but I like it. If someone knows a better way to make clock & pitch arp syncs in the Grid please LMK. xDDD

Day 82 & 83: Yesterday I worked on a track but felt discouraged failing to make the bass I wanted. Today I made some utility patches & wavetables, studied what the "Blur" device actually does, and recreated a preset from this tutorial in the Grid. >w< youtu.be/b-4TkTnnrAM

GitHub - iicaras/Wavetable-Tools-WTT: Tools for processing wavetables. Tools for processing wavetables. Contribute to iicaras/Wavetable-Tools-WTT development by creating an account on GitHub.

I published a small Python programme for converting wavetables between WAV and WT formats. It can also add CLM data to WAV files, export individual cycles, and remove duplicate cycles😊. I might build binaries later but for now, Python is required.
github.com/iicaras/Wave...

Day 81: I continued working on a project and streamlining my 4D wavetable experience. I am really happy with it! I moreover made some bass jams with it again😋.

Day 79 & 80: I made some samples with the 4D wavetsble preset (I'll simply call it 4D instead of "2D positional space" lmao). On the day after I wrote a piano part and tried to make an intro part out of it. :3

Day 78: 2D position/frame space wavetables.

Wavetable information and formats Wavetable information and formats. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Day 77: I made a few wavetables, worked on my wavetable tools programme, and worked on an article about wavetable creation and specifications. :D
gist.github.com/iicaras/f63d...

Day 76: I felt physically rather terrible today so I only experimented with PM-ing basic shapes by vocal samples. While that was cool, I also figured I could try modulating the sample playback speed, which sounds similar to PM. This chain became quite interesting!

Day 74 & 75: Yesterday I jammed out on piano with a downsampled patch hehe. Today I was going through advice on a part I'm working on, I recreated a sound in the Grid, and I replicated Vital's 'Bend' morph in Grid, which tbh can mostly simply be done using a transfer curve.🙏

Day 73: I remade the 'Downsample' distortion mode from Serum in Bitwig's FX-Grid. I want to try to remake some of Serum's FX presets so that I can use those when using the Grid for sounddesign :D. I'll do more stuff today but I was quite excited to post this already haha.

Day 71 & 72: Wow week 10 weeks have past, that's wild! Time really flies xD. Anyway, I forgot to post about both days, but not much has happened. On Monday I made some SFX'es after a failed attempt at making a specific vocoder, and yesterday I followed bass tutorials! ><

Day 70: I tried reverse engineering the lock-on sound from Ace Combat 3, and used my version in a project I also worked on. It's really not perfect, but it's close enough to my liking. 😊

Day 68 & 69: Both days I worked on a project. I figured I could just combine both days since I was doing the same thing -w-. That said I might do some more reverse engineering today. :D