Here's some audio of the Cyclebox (in LFO mode mainly) into Makenoise Maths' Comparator (controlling two z3000 oscs)
See the Maths manual for a description of how to make the comparator patch in Maths. This version of the patch is the one where the same LFO is sent to both chs. 2 and 3 of Maths, and one is deriving a gate from the LFO passing a threshold in the positive direction, and the other going in a negative direction. So - when the high points of the LFO are reached, one comparator is triggered, and once the LFO goes below a certain threshold the other one is triggered. I have then taken the actual LFO shape (one inverted, one normal) from Maths chs. 2 and 3 into two separate z3000 oscs, using triangle wave on one, and sine on the other.
ALL YOU HEAR THROUGHOUT IS THE OUTPUT OF THE TWO Z3000s (on sine and triangle)
i emphasise this, as it is literally unbelievable some of the madness that ensues - i kept thinking i was listening to the Cyclebox itself!
To begin with i've brought in the 2 z3000s, swept up and down by the LFO in opposite directions.
Then i gradually fade up the CV inputs into the 2 VCAs - these contain the outputs of two rs60 ADSRs. These are triggered by the EOR and EOC outputs of Maths, whose gates are derived from the inputted LFO via the built-in comparator in Maths. So you get two rhythmic patterns derived from the LFO, one on the left and one on the right.
Then at about 2.00 mins into it i start messing with the Cyclebox - it is in LFO mode. i have sent a negative offset into the osc2 Ratio input to slow it right down, and it is slightly FM-ing OSC1 (i am in mode 0010, which splits the module into 2 separate oscs out of LEAD and LAG. i am only using the osc1/LEAD output. osc2 is merely providing FM to osc 1).
Gradually i start moving round the waveform knob on both oscs, varying the internal FM amount/ tuning/ amount of modulation going to the z3000s etc....
After a while i flick LFO mode off, and then start using the wavetable waves in both LFO and normal mode (all still merely to modulate the pitches of the two z3000s)
Near the end i suddenly remember the wavefolder and that brings forth a shed load of new waveshapes. this thing is literally endless.
CHECK it out!
You'll want one by the end of this. and we're not even listening to it!
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