Free State FX Modules
Macro Digital Oscillator
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The Macro Digital Oscillator is a high precision voltage controlled audio source capable of 47 unique models. Each model is controlled by two parameters; color and timbre.
Classic Analog Models
- CSAW Yamaha CS-80 sawtooth.
- /\/I-_-_ Moog Voyager variable waveform.
- /I/I-_-_ Sawtooth/square morph, with PWM.
- FOLD Triangle/sine morph, with wavefolder.
Direct Digital Synthesis
- _I_I_I_I_ Band-limited Dual Pulse Train, with detuning.
- SUB-_-_ Square oscillator with variable suboctave.
- SUB/I Saw oscillator plus suboctave.
- SYN-_-_ Dual square oscillator, with hard sync.
- SYN/I Dual sawtooth oscillator, with hard sync.
- /I/Ix3 Triple saw wave oscillator.
- -_-_x3 Triple square wave oscillator.
- /\x3 Triple triangle wave oscillator.
- SIx3 Triple sine wave osillator.
- RING Stack of three ring-modulated sine waves.
- /I/I/I/I/I Swarm of seven sawtooth waves.
- /I/I_I_I_ Comb-filtered sawtooth wave.
- TOY* Circuit-bent sawtooth generator, with sample rate reduction and bit toggling.
- ZLPF Casio CZ style lowpass filter.
- ZPKF Casio CZ style peak filter.
- ZBPF Casio CZ style bandpass filter.
- ZHPF Casio CZ style highpass filter.
- VOSM Formant synthesis using three ring modulated/hardsync'ed oscillators.
- VOWL Vowel sounds using early computer speech synthesis.
- VFOF Vowel sounds using Rodet's FOF synthesis technique.
- HARM Additive synthesis usin 12 sine harmonics.
- FM 2-operator phase-modulation synthesis.
- FBFM 2-operator phase-modulation synthesis, with carrier feedback.
- WTFM 2-operator phase-modulation synthesis, with two feedback paths.
Physical Models
- PLUK Raw plucked string synthesis.
- BOWD Bowed string modeling.
- BLOW Reed instrument model.
- FLUT Flute instrument model.
- BELL Bell model using Risset's additive synthesis technique.
- DRUM Metallic drum model using an adaptation of Risset's Bell technique.
Percussive Models
- KICK Roland TR-808 kick drum.
- CYMB Roland TR-808 cymbal.
- SNAR Roland TR-808 snare drum.
Wavetables
- WTBL Classic wavetable synthesis.
- WMAP Two-dimension wavetable synthesis.
- WLIN One-dimensional scanning of all the Macro Digital Oscillator's modes.
- WTx4 Four-voice variant of WLIN mode.
Noise Sources
- NOIS Noise processed by a tuned multimode filter.
- TWNQ Noise processed by a dual BP filter.
- CLKN Clocked digital noise.
- CLOU Cloud of sinusoidal grains.
- PRTC Particle synthesis.
- QPSK Model of the modulated signals used in digital telecommunications systems.
Additional Settings
The settings menu is accessible by pressing the encoder knob. These settings are not voltage controllable.
- META CV-controlled mode selection with the FM input.
- BITS Bit depth (4 to 16).
- RATE Sample Rate (4kHz to 96kHz)
- TSRC Trigger source (external or auto).
- TDLY Trigger delay time.
- I\ATT AD envelope attack time.
- I\DEC AD envelope decay time.
- I\FM AD envelope to FM.
- I\TIM AD envelope to TIMBRE.
- I\COL AD envelope to COLOR.
- I\VCA AD envelope to VCA.
- RANG Range of COARSE knob.
- OCTV Octave transpose swich.
- QNTZ Quantifies voltage at 1V/OCT input.
- ROOT Root note of QNTZ scale
- FLAT Detuning in the lower and higher frequencies.
- DRFT Drift level.
- SIGN Waveform imperfection level.
- BRIG Screen brightness ajustment.
- CAL. Calibration mode.
- Width: 2u MU
- Firmware: Braids 1.9
- All inputs: 100k impedance, DC to 4kHz.
- CV Input: 12-bit
- Audio Output: 96kHz, 16-bit audio processing (some algorithms are 2x or 4x oversampled)
Special thanks to Émilie Gillet for making this module possible.
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