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Tiptop z2040 meets Echophon

by matttech offcuts

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Well, this is a little jam that I recorded while composing a recent track. It was also intended to help me decide if I could bear to part with my Tiptop z2040 Lowpass filter. Guess what?

That's right, I can't.

It doesn't get anywhere near as much praise as it used to, due to newer, shinier filters being out....but it's a real winner. You can modulate any parameter you want, and the two included VCAs are really useful: One can be either an Input or Output VCA, and if you set it to Input it will drive the filter nicely when fully open, so you can effectively get voltage-controlled overdrive into the bargain; the other is used to modulate the AMOUNT of your primary modulation (called "FM" on the z2040) - so it avoids the need for an additional external VCA to facilitate this. Just having it there right on the front panel makes you try out patches you might otherwise be too lazy to set up.

A common one might be to send an osc into the main FM input, and then use some nice wiggly LFOs or randomly-triggered Envelopes to modulate the amount of FM. I find the 4ms PEG to be very useful in these kind of patches, especially when pinged by some random gates.

The details of this patch are sketchy at best, as I didn't write them down at the time. I DO know that I was modulating every parameter though, and also manually tweaking away. As the recording progresses you can hear the input gain being driven nicely - you get a completely different sound out of the filter once you drive it past a certain point, and if you play your cards right you can modulate it so that your sound fades from a self-oscillating sine wave to a gnarly and fat-sounding filtered synth.

The Makenoise Echophon is used extensively during this jam, with the Freeze function being randomly triggered at points, and various other modulation going on.

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released July 18, 2013

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