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Make Noise QPAS Review + Exclusive Patreon Download
🕑 Added 2019-02-04 21:52:10 +0000 UTCHi!
QPAS has got me totally hooked on stereo filtering - you've got to try it out! Just take two filters (at least), run your music through them (one to the left and the other to the right), set one cutoff to at least a few dozen hz below the other - then sweep away...
Make Noise takes this concept and runs with it. QPAS is a quad filter module, but it's designed to play like an instrument - you actually can't control its filters independently.
QPAS reminds me of 0-Coast in that it can sing and scream and everything in between.
A few things make it special:
1. The resonance of its state variable filter is very precise, meaning it will play the harmonics but almost nothing in between, and yet it doesn't self-oscillate, which is a good thing, because the last thing you want is four atonal sine waves ringing in your ear...
2. Its peaks ring and resonate - QPAS's resonance is created by feeding its band pass filter back through the filter (brilliant idea! this is definitely going to go in the feedback section of the book...) - creating a feedback loop that rings out quite a bit after the source sound has ended. It gives QPAS quite a unique character. This kind of contradicts point #1, but since the peaks only ring for a short time and will play the harmonics, this implementation is very different from self oscillation.
3. QPAS's "smile pass" filter keeps all your sound's original harmonics, and yet lets its four peaks play through. All the benefits of resonance without unwanted filtering (assuming you want to maintain the integrity of your sound and just enhance it).
4. The "wildcard" inputs are an original way to add anything from kick-type sounds to audio rate filter FM complexity to any sound.
As mentioned in the title to this post, I've attached a Patreon exclusive download of the 2-minute jam in the intro and outro to this video. This will let you listen to it in all its stereo glory without the talking...
All my best,
Ziv (stereo filtering on youtube as "Loopop")
P.S. Should I try quadraphonic filtering?!
Comments
Great! And yes, Omri Cohen is an amazing VCV resource!
Been dabbling with VCV Rack for some time now. I was looking to get into modular synthesis for some time before I heard of VCV Rack. I haven't looked back. The amount of modules can be completely overwhelming and there were quite a few concepts, stuff, ... I never heard of. So I looked for tutorials on YT and followed along with them (I really like the Omri Cohen tutorials as he goes in depth on a certain module and then builds a patch around them). After following one of the tutorials, I do a tabula rasa and try to re-create the patch. Usually, this doesn't work :-) and I end up with my own personal version. Anyway, I am now at the point where I have created some templates (ambient, midi controller, different type of sequencer, ...) and depending on mood or idea I start from one of these templates.
OK, I'll give VCV another earnest try. Recently when I updated the software it seems there have been a ton of improvements, primarily many (many, many) new modules. I may still need to peek at a manual.
