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Looking for a "beating" type FX...
You know that "beating" effect you get when two osc's are slightly detuned, or that "Binaural beats" type effect?
I know you can kinda get there with a tremolo fx, especially one with a lot of modulation... But I'm wondering if there's one hiding out there that more specfically made for the really slow, in-and-out type effect.
I know there's an option in Paul Stretch that is kinda cool... Just looking for more.
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Nothing special needed. Any LFO pointed at the volume control of an app. Or the filter cutoff for a different kind of feel. Mess with different LFO shapes for more variety.
LFOH! is interesting because you can put it right in as an FX and it'll do the modulation without any need for midi routing if you like.
MMM is free, has lots of interesting LFOs, and you can have them modulate each other.
I thought they added cross modulation to their other apps Wim, but not the free one (MMM). Did that change?
Yea, I get that, but I was kinda hoping there was something that I didn't have to wire up myself. Plus there's some kind of freq (not pitch) shifting effect in some stuff that I've heard that I like that I'm having a hard time nailing down...
You're right. I misremembered.
I like midiLFOs for cross modulation, but there are plenty of others (And there's always the dreaded "D" word if you just wanna piss off @MonkeyDrummer 😉).
LFOH! doesn't require wiring up for an amplitude effect.
Turnado is loaded with those kind of effects. Effectrix too, in a different way.
Grind is great for a very different kind of beat down when you leverage its LFO ... as are most other Audio Damage effect apps. They almost all have at least one LFO in them.
Have you looked at https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pulseripper/id6740248237?
I think it's really fun and musical to do this stuff in the traditional way - just have 2 frequencies that are very close in Hz, adjust them slightly from time to time to get a bit of variation. Mononoke is a very easy way to do this. The slow beats happen when the frequencies are close together. Mononoke and Salome are easy, fast and fun choices for doing this, my preference being for Salome as the keyboard is much better.
Ringotron has a single knob for stereo separation of its modulator wave, although a single modulator element will only cover part of the spectrum - which can either be limiting or super useful depending on what you're looking for.
I've recorded a short demo, using a base frequency of 1.11 Hz. It's also possible to dial in extremely fine levels of stereo difference.
The more complex (or perceivable) beating patterns really start to emerge in the second third of the video.
The parameter doesn't set one of the oscillators' frequency, but antisymmetrically shifts the frequencies of both oscillators, one up, one down. It's also a polarized parameter with a negative and a positive side, dictating whether the L or the R oscillator will be of higher frequency.
Yeah! That looks like the ticket!
The “problem” with tremolo or just amplitude lfo’s is they are just replicating the amplitude shifts that happen when frequencies cancel each other out. This looks promising!
Thanks!
Yes, but I’m looking to apply it to existing material in a fx chain.