Eurorack Modular Dubstep 1

YouTube Published on May 20, 2012 by DJjondent

"This is a follow up on my previous attempts to reverse engineer Skrillex's
growling wobble bass using Abelton and various VST synths.
http://youtu.be/NIpgDKptgeM
http://youtu.be/TdPR8tr25l0

The time has come to do dubstep with a modular synth.(first attempt ;-) )
The basic principle is the same: using LFOs to modulate oscillators & filters.

I'll do this with a wavetable oscillator (The GammaWave by WMD).
WaveTables are very different to your standard VCO.
(In the Abelton video we used PPG and Massive VSTs).

A wavetable is a collection of waveforms each with its own unique sound.
The standard analog VCO has a handful ..maybe 4 waves (sine, square, ramp, saw etc etc) to choose from.
The WMD Gama wave in contrast has 2 Oscillators each with at least 256 waveforms.
The thing I really love about this module is how we can make the oscillator step through the waveforms. Thus the sound evolves/changes. This is all done using control voltages.
This evolving waveform is what I think gives that growling demonic quality that's so important in dubstep.
Using a LFO I can make the oscillator progress through all 256 waveforms in one cycle if I wish.

Just to thicken the sound a bit we could add an analog oscillator (saw wave?)
To be different here I've tried a ring modulator to give a metallic flavour
In the kyoto video #2 I used a vocoder and a different filter.
A bitcrusher would probably be useful here too.
(The WMD Gamma Wave actually has one - I'll use it in the next video)
I'll try this again later with different modules.

There is more than one way to skin a cat.

Anyway, the modules used were:
Modcan Touch sequencer
WMD Gamma wave
Submix7
Doepfer A138 mixer
Pittsburgh VILFO
Doepfer A145 (LFO)
Doepfer A120 (VCF Low Pass filter)
Doepfer A114 (Ring Mod)
WMD Buffered Multiple

Thanks to Matt from RhythmActive for the WMD & Pittsburgh modules,
the Modcan sequencer and the submix7.
http://www.rhythmactive.com.au/"