Muse FTW wrote:Dad Dick 2999 wrote:So this thread is giant, and I don't think this has come up (nor will I hunt):
Anyone using a shit ton of triggers/gates? Which modules are good for that? Phonogene, Peaks, LxD, Radio Music are all on my rack or radar already. Building a synth largely run from complex trigger patterns.
So I am generating a ton of triggers and gates, mainly from Pamela's New Workout, Eloquencer, Varigate, etc...
The destinations are as follows:
Pamela's New Workout is going to Morphagene (sometimes to trigger play/record), DLD (to clock the delays, the holds, the reverse), Clouds (to trigger the freeze), and providing clocks to sequencers (Ansible, Metropolis). Sometimes I ping a filter with it, too.
Eloquencer's gates (besides the ones going to voices/filters) are just in charge of bass drum for now (BD808) but I might switch it to controlling Plonk soon because it has so many more inputs. When they go to filters I put them through Maths first to give it an envelope, even though it has some wave functionally.
Varigate goes to the rest of my drum modules (Tip Top open/closed hats, snare, Dinky's Taiko).
IMO if you aren't going for drum modules, the best destinations for gates and triggers are sampler/delay modules (capturing sound and playing them back at fixed ratios), filters for pinging (Three Sisters and Belgrad are amazing for this), and any VCA with the input for automating the volume knob since you can feed it a sound, then let blips through.
OK, thanks--that clarifies some things. I'm barking up a sensible tree.