In this patch I try to put the focus for the Day of the Dead event on the Nitrous and Wolv modules. In my experiments, I accidentally discovered a screaming horror baby sound with these modules and made it into something that sounds like a cat ^^. I want to share this noise with you in this patch. It’s not perfect, because at the end you can still hear a slight knocking, but this little bug you can hide with wind and rain. The video has unfortunately become a bit long, so I make some jump links at the bottom of the description, so you don’t have to search where I start building which effects. As I understood, you should only use VULT, VCV and Geodesics modules in this event, so I deleted the labelable blanks at the end of the video again. Maybe blanks are allowed too, I wasn’t sure :)
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Short introduction
SFX Crackling (00:30)
This sound, together with the rain sound, is supposed to sound as if some raindrops are falling on the ground nearby. It is in stereo unlike the rain noise. I used the right side of Trummor for the noise and for modulation. The delay modules make the crackle sound always a little different on both ears.
SFX Wind & Rain (04:45)
For the rain I mixed 2 soft sounding noise sounds and a slightly harder red noise in the Wolv module. From this I take in Stable the semitone as the basic noise and the middle and high tones I mix with 3Hp for more variety in the sound. Via Nitrous the rain noise sounds deeper and more like wind, which I fade in from time to time in the last mixer channel with 3HP. Maybe I should have taken a slow LFO for the wind modulation, because the wind sometimes breaks off abruptly with 3HP.
Spooky Melody (10:50)
The melody is a simple arpegio that is randomly triggered with Fate. Here I used SS-2 to switch the notes and SS-1 is used to randomly hear the melody on the right or left ear. Since I like switches, I built a clock with them together with an LFO. By the way, the melody is created by modulating the cutoff controller of Tangents
Bongos (17:58)
Here I use Nitrous to make a bongo noise out of the clock voltage. The sound itself is used with SS-1 to switch between the left and right ear.
SFX Weird (20:04)
I couldn’t think of a name for this sound, it was just supposed to sound strange to add some variety to the monotonous bongo tapping. For the sound I use Tangents. This is swirled with the delay module and randomly triggered with Fate and Slap.
SFX Cat (22:53)
I discovered the cat sound more or less by accident when I fed Wolv and Nitrous back and turned the knobs wildly. I noticed that Nitrous can be used in a similar way to Tangents. As soon as the Res knob is all the way out and Cutoff is further to the right, the module starts whistling. The whistling can then be modulated using ADSR and Stable to make it sound like a cat. Due to the slight modulation of cv1, this noise always sounds slightly different.
Wooden Beat (29:20)
Finally, I used Nitrous again to make a little wooden beat with the clock signal. When the voltage on the clock signal is attenuated using OCT, the brightness of the sound changes.
