ROTHER Instruction Manual

for many patches the optimum way to set things up is to set the speed knob and
threshold knob so that the chaotic gates happen once in a while. when set like
this the intervals between the gates can be quite surprising.!
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HOW IS THIS USEFUl?!
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There are really two general ways of using the CHAOTIC TRIGGERS.!
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The first way is just as a crazy sound effect sort of device. This is what you will
get when you DONT plug anything into the CV JACK. For if there is no external
CV or clock, there is nothing for the CHAOS BROTHER to WORK WITH, OR
WORK AGAINST. The triggers will be interesting and certainly will still be
different than regular streams of periodic pulses. BUT, they will be much harder
to work into a grid.!
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However for many kinds of applications THIS IS JUST FINE! !
For example, let’s say that we are working with an ethereal or ambient track.!
Maybe there is a bed of DRONES (see the SNAZZY FX DRONEBANK) and a
slow bass guitar. maybe an occasional STEAM sound (telephone game Noise
output through a hi pass filter the Wow and Flutter module)!
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So in this type of track, (or in any NON GRID Oriented track) strange pulses
triggering synth sounds or drums can work very well. !
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Simply set up a nice synth sound (maybe the Ardcore FM OSC (or any other
vco) into the Tidal Wave VCF with resonance up quite high (or any other VCF)
—-a metallic sound softened by a very wet lowpass filter. Take that sound and
either use the built in VCA of the Tidal wave with an external ADSR or use an
external VCA and an external ADSR.!
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Now plug the SMOOTH output of the CHAOS BROTHER into the PITCH CV
input of the VCO. Adjust the Speed, Chaos and SMOOTH knob on the CHAOS
BROTHER as well as the PITCH KNOB!
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