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Bucking Floodhounds

from Cherish The Pale Blue Dot by Thomas Wulfe

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the tenth synthesis techniques challenge - In this weekly series we'll explore the myriad of ways one can synthesize sound.
Today we're covering something you've probably never heard of: concatenative synthesis. You'll start to understand what this means if I then say "it's what the Korg Wavestation and Wavestate use". Concatenative means to link things together in a chain or series. In this case we're linking together samples in length from 10 milliseconds up to 1 second to create a sound, be it cohesive or more... sequenced. Its original use was with speech synthesis, stringing together phonemes to create words, but it's since reached the mass music market thanks to Korg and, albeit at a much less mass quantity, sequential switches and scanners which allow you to string together different sounds to create a single sound. So, how do I want you to go about this? A few ways, depending on what you have available. The first and most true-to-form would be a sampler that can chain together multiple samples, such as a Wavestation/Wavestate. Another, more analogue method, would be to use a clocked sequential switch or scanner with the outputs of an oscillator to create a wave sequence. Please note this is not the same as a wavetable, though the similaries at least for single-cycle concatenation are there. It's also not vector synthesis specifically, though most vector synthesizers do employ a form of concatenative synthesis. You're allowed to use whatever modulation and light effects to taste. Have fun, and I'll have a new one next Friday!

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from Cherish The Pale Blue Dot, released January 12, 2023

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As part of the waxcide collective, Thomas Wulfe Its the alias i have been unsing for Ambient, IDM, Chillout, Electronica, Breakbeat, Trip-Hop and more for near 25 years. Influenced by artists such as Orbital, Underworld and Richard D. James, I love using both hardware and software synthesisers, sampling, computers and especially analogue modular synths ... more

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