Elektron-Users

Anyone have any tricks for this funky sound as you hold the note the vibrato gets more wild?

You need two LFOs.

LFO 1 applied to the pitch
LFO 2 applied to the speed/depth of LFO 1

Set LFO 1 to, say, a sine wave
Set LFO 2 to a ramp (or a sine)

LFO 2 needs to be one-shot or half phase really but it depends on how long you hold a note for I guess.

tried this, but the speed is very very slow...I try the multiplier....it kinda works, makes it choppy, also the depth sounds bad...10oct is too subtle, 20oct is extreme...

I'll give it a whirl later, not in front of my MNM at the moment.

OK, here's what I set up. It could do with a little more refinement but the basics are there.

SID machine with a SAW wave (for simplicity).

LFO 1 PAGE - PTCH
LFO 1 DEST - 10CT
LFO TRIG - TRIG
LFO 1 WAVE - TRI
LFO 1 MULT - x64
LFO 1 SPD - 1
LFO 1 INTL - 0
LFO 1 DPTH - 32

Then LFO 2 to mod the speed of LFO 1

LFO 2 PAGE - LFO1
LFO 2 DEST - SPD
LFO 2 TRIG - ONE
LFO 2 WAVE - SAW
LFO 2 MULT - 8x
LFO 2 SPD - 48
LFO 2 INTL - 0
LFO 2 DPTH - 48

You can also add a third LFO to fade in the depth

LFO 3 PAGE - LFO1
LFO 3 DEST - DPTH
LFO 3 TRIG - ONE
LFO 3 WAVE - SAW/RAMP
LFO 3 MULT - 1x
LFO 3 SPD - 64
LFO 3 INTL - 0
LFO 3 DPTH - 80

You can get some nice stuff by playing around with LFO1 DEST

Hope that gives you some idea on how to do it.

Another way to do it would be to PLOCK the DEPTH/SPEED on two trigs and then use Slide to fade it in. You'd only need one LFO then.

Actually, yeah, slides are simpler but take a bit more fiddling with in the sequencer.

Use on LFO setup to modify the pitch, set SPD to 0 and DPTH to 0.

Put a trigger on step 1 and plock the SPD and DPTH to 0.

Put a trigger on, say, step 9 and pluck he SPD to 64 and the DPTH to 64 - you'll probably need the MLTP to 64/32x still.

Press FUNCTION + SLIDE and then place a slide trig on step 1 and 9.

Make sure the AMP HOLD is set to long enough to cover at least the two steps (1 & 9).

Slides tie you to the sequencer though... Modulate the modulator!

cool, thanks, will try

Oh lord, sorry about the appalling typing - a little too much white wine I think.