Hi everybody, new to the forum! im playing with aalto, really great work randy! the interface is genius, new paradigm in modulars, and the sound is superb.congrats!
My first question, to learn more about sound design in aalto i want to make my first acid patches. The original acid machine was a very different thing compared to a modular, the 303 is very simple in synthesis. aalto is a beast with lots of possibilities, not very straightforward subtractive synthesis,but i guess one could make very accurate freak acid patches with it.
Any ideas besides the aalto acid patch?
thanks!
hey the captain,
Some would say, if it's not a 303, it's not acid. I don't quite subscribe to this purist view but I have some sympathy with it. The 303 is very simple but the sound of its filter (or a good clone) is really a special thing, and attempts to do 303-like sounds without the particulars of its response fall short, if that's what you are going for.
There's a whole world of sounds I think have similar qualities, though. I think of "acidy" sounds as ones with strong vocal harmonics. Aalto's filter is by design a fairly simple, open one (SEM like). By rocking the timbre dial on the OSC, and playing with comb filtering using short delay times on the waveshaper module, there is a lot of room to explore neo-acid modulations.
I spent a while trying to get something close to the bass sound on Aphex Twin’s "Tha" which has a really wet kind of modulation. It's in the Aalto presets as "Tha bass."
hey randy!
I know, if one wants a 303, use a 303! (or clone)
But my idea was more of what you said, creating new acid sounds, taking 303 as a muse but doing new things with a great synth like Aalto.
Your ideas are of great help, i will explore them!
nice anecdote about recreathing Aphex´s Tha, for sure richard also is making acid lines without 303 these days
pd:i changed my username