PLL Arabesque Patch

dougcl · Post by **dougcl** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:04 am

Hi folks, spent the evening playing with the PLL and reconstructed this which is the core of the Arabesque Patch.

Edit: Added link to vid.

ex_dead_teenager · Post by **ex_dead_teenager** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:24 am

damn, and me without a real slew limiter.

I'll have to try this anyway...

wetterberg · Post by **wetterberg** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:24 am

damn, and me without a quantizer

Oh well, guess I'll try this with the a-189-1 instead, hehe

Thanks for going through the trouble of attempting to reconstruct this, man. Epic patch.

ex_dead_teenager · Post by **ex_dead_teenager** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:17 am

yes, huge thanks, this patch sold me on the PLL I can't tell you how often I've listened to your youtube of it, it's haunting.

richard · Post by **richard** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:57 am

many thanks. this is crucial info!

actually can i ask how you made the image. occassionally I feel the need to thoroughly document a patch

R

dougcl · Post by **dougcl** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:39 am

Hi Richard, I just used MS Paint on a screen shot from Rack Planner. The rack scale is set to 2.0.

Leisure Cove · Post by **Leisure Cove** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:30 am

I feel safe saying that everyone who has seen that video has wanted to recreate the patch and/or bought a PLL to do so.

Many thanks!!

a100user · Post by **a100user** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:06 am

Just patched that up.

Damn that clever. I'm starting to understand the PLL a bit more now.

Thanks

wetterberg · Post by **wetterberg** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:21 am

okay, question time:
why use a slew limiter? The lowpass out of the PLL is already "slewed", aka lowpassed, surely?

BananaPlug · Post by **BananaPlug** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:23 am

Thanks for doing that. I'll give it a shot once I get tired of the rats nest I have in place at the moment.

dougcl · Post by **dougcl** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:17 pm

wetterberg wrote:okay, question time:
why use a slew limiter? The lowpass out of the PLL is already "slewed", aka lowpassed, surely?

It allows you to control the PLL and external VCO separately. You should consider it optional though because I can see in the video my untouched A-170 in the second row on the far right.

Beyond this and not shown here though is the possibility of slewing the pitch input before it goes to the mixer using the bottom half of the A-170. This would make the sound go through the scale on the way to the desired note and then trill once it's there.

goiks · Post by **goiks** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:29 pm

finally got around to patching this up, big thanks.

dude · Post by **dude** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:22 pm

just bought a pll!

dkcg · Post by **dkcg** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:49 pm

awesome. I bet you could even make the note jumping sync with a clock somewhat with a trigger into the quantizer. or a Maths instead of the slew. Damn....why do I need to go out for dinner instead of trying this patch! Oh yeah...chicks.

dude · Post by **dude** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:53 pm

what are chicks again? all i see are math homework, anatomy homework and modulars.

Babaluma · Post by **Babaluma** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:54 pm

yeah but the chicks can help you with your anatomy homework.

blungo2 · Post by **blungo2** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:13 pm

Just ordered a PLL so i can try this patch (and other stuff of course).

Audio Resistance · Post by **Audio Resistance** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 10:30 pm

I nominate Doug's Arabesque PLL patch as...... drumroll please

"EURO PATCH of the YEAR"

dougcl · Post by **dougcl** » Sat Dec 19, 2009 10:49 pm

Ha ha. Too bad it was an accident

blungo2 · Post by **blungo2** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:12 am

dougcl wrote:Ha ha. Too bad it was an accident

I don't think that makes it any less brilliant though...

loudone · Post by **loudone** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 11:43 am

dougcl wrote:Ha ha. Too bad it was an accident

That would be what the late great Bob Ross called a "Happy Accident".

nanotone · Post by **nanotone** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:37 am

dougcl wrote:Hi folks, spent the evening playing with the PLL and reconstructed this which is the core of the Arabesque patch.

Thanks a lot for this inspiring patch

dougcl · Post by **dougcl** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:17 am

My pleasure.

the bad producer · Post by **the bad producer** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 6:16 am

Yes, amazing patch...

I'd missed this, and patched it up last night, though I don't yet have a 156...

I found the patch grew quickly to bind together half the modular, and really sounds great with VC Slew whilst toggling the switches on the 196... I can imagine working with this for some time over Christmas...

Thanks Doug...

Charlie

YouTube · Post by **Kent** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 6:22 am

Well, the Vulcanization of rubber and Penicillin were both discovered by accident... just goes to show ya. Similar to when my wife found my P-spot...

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