Buchla Sound on Digitone

Elektron Gear Digitone/Digitone Keys
#1

I just picked up a Digitone on Friday and had a chance to play around with a Buchla Music Easel today with a buddy of mine.

Was curious if you guys had any tips and tricks to get the FM synthesis sound of Buchla within the Digitone.

(I’m very new to FM synthesis so go easy on my lack of knowledge, ha)

thanks all!

#2

Hey, I’ve been having fun getting some quite buchla-esque percussive sounds out of the digitone.

  • Try very short envelopes on the SYN2 page (remember to turn these up!), also short AMP envelope.
  • Pick ALGO to taste.
  • Modulate and p-lock DTUN, HARM, FDBK etc.
  • Use 2x random LFO, particularly on things like env decay etc
  • Place trigs off-grid/unquantised and use lots of trig probability to add more uncertainty :wink:

:v:

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#3

This was my attempt at doing the same sort of thing:

Molotov’s suggestions above are spot-on. If you want to get that “timbre-sweep” sound:

Initialize a patch, (so you have a sine wave to play with) then go straight to the SYN2 page, and play with the envelope “Level” settings. You can also use the envelopes, or simply assign an LFO to the Level controls. This will get you a nice timbre/wave folder sound.

You can also get some decent Low Pass Gate emulations if you spend enough time tweaking the filter. It takes a little work, but you can tweak the filter envelope to give you a Vactrol-like decay. It works better with the 2-pole low pass. You’ll need to combine this with tweaking the amplitude to a similar shape, as Low Pass Gates act on both frequency and amplitude. They don’t have to be identical, but fairly similar shapes will get you closer to that sort of plucky sound.

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#4

Good stuff! I feel like the Digitone excels at percussive sounds. I’ve really been struggling to create more drone or more sustained sounds, but I’m learning and eventually will get there. Thanks for the ideas!

Awesome, will try this too. I have really played around with these and next level is using LFO’s to modulate them. Good ideas. Will also try to replicate the LPG as you mention.