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Hey, all! I was wondering if any of you every played with the concept of cloud synthesizers.
(for those of you who don't really know clouds on a first-name basis)
A cloud synthesizer is the juxtaposition of 16 or more oscillators, each oscillator representing an element of a chord, harmony, or movement.
"the term 'cloud oscillator' was first used by ambient musician robert rich when he was recording his 'bestiary' cd. he wanted to define a new type of "buzzing, swarming cloud of sine waves" and after some experimentation, was able to create such a timbre using 24 individual motm modules."
After 13 years the concept of cloud synthesis remains rather untouched and these days is all but an extinct practice in the ambient community.
I have gotten myself some good results by using cloud synthesis along with various raw waves with upper harmonics. Because of this I felt that it represented an ample opportunity to express a good and custom line of effects chains I'd been producing. and as a result I made a couple of rather interesting textures and timbres.
(Example 1: Metallic build 6, upper timbre resonation.)
(included: Accommodated lower frequency stereo separation (120*-240* phasing texture)
(included: Customized Pulse-Hybrid Oscillator: harmonics=1,3,5,7,9,11,13,19,21,29)
(Example 2: City of Lights build 17, mid timbre resonation and subbass phasing)
(included: mid-midlow range phasing negation and mid-midlow resonant chording)
(included: Custom bit-phased S-Tosc build (negate distorted harmonics)
(Example 3: TES-series feedback resonation and stereo field manipulation via lower phase)
(included: Metallic build 2, phasing mid-timbre, resonated +6kHz)
(included: Metallic build 3, stereo echo phase via 9th harmonic - 17th harmonic (ex 13th))
(for those of you who don't really know clouds on a first-name basis)
A cloud synthesizer is the juxtaposition of 16 or more oscillators, each oscillator representing an element of a chord, harmony, or movement.
"the term 'cloud oscillator' was first used by ambient musician robert rich when he was recording his 'bestiary' cd. he wanted to define a new type of "buzzing, swarming cloud of sine waves" and after some experimentation, was able to create such a timbre using 24 individual motm modules."
After 13 years the concept of cloud synthesis remains rather untouched and these days is all but an extinct practice in the ambient community.
I have gotten myself some good results by using cloud synthesis along with various raw waves with upper harmonics. Because of this I felt that it represented an ample opportunity to express a good and custom line of effects chains I'd been producing. and as a result I made a couple of rather interesting textures and timbres.
(Example 1: Metallic build 6, upper timbre resonation.)
(included: Accommodated lower frequency stereo separation (120*-240* phasing texture)
(included: Customized Pulse-Hybrid Oscillator: harmonics=1,3,5,7,9,11,13,19,21,29)
(Example 2: City of Lights build 17, mid timbre resonation and subbass phasing)
(included: mid-midlow range phasing negation and mid-midlow resonant chording)
(included: Custom bit-phased S-Tosc build (negate distorted harmonics)
(Example 3: TES-series feedback resonation and stereo field manipulation via lower phase)
(included: Metallic build 2, phasing mid-timbre, resonated +6kHz)
(included: Metallic build 3, stereo echo phase via 9th harmonic - 17th harmonic (ex 13th))
(though that one is 16 waves and not 24). When I was toying with the idea of a small eurorack modular, that oscillator module was on my list. They call it the "cloud generator."
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