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Audiomulch Screencast: AAVA Part Two

July 23, 2007
Audiomulch's AAVA patch

In this part two of a two-part piece on (Part One can be found here) Audiomulch, Gearwire's Rob Warmowski shows the signal processing going on inside this preset patch. For a tool as seemingly devoted to ugliness as Mulch is, it can also do the blissed-out thing very well as this tutorial screencast shows.

Get more information about Audiomulch at the official Audiomulch website.

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ROB WARMOWSKI: Now what exactly is going on here? Ten arpeggiators, all very similar, are being triggered to hold a single note down and feed that single note into the gain stage here. So, we have arpeggiator C2, we have arpeggiator F2, we have arpeggiator C5_,2, C4_,2. By the way, in case you're not aware, these numbers that follow the pitch names of the notes refer to the octave that the note is actually sounding in, so this is F in the fifth octave up here and this is another F in the fifth octave, and here's an F in the fourth octave, and then a G in the fourth octave. So, all of these are fed in the MGain, the mono gain contraption, which is then fed into MParametricEQ or mono parametric EQ number 1, and this parametric EQ is being controlled, as we saw before, or at least its cutoff frequency for the high-frequency shelf, is being controlled by this data here.

So, this is what's called a filter sweep. We're moving an EQ property around in its range by opening up and closing or broad -- there's another one -- approaching a point where the filter is wide open and letting lots of high frequency through and then reducing it down to a point where it's not passing as much high frequency. We can hear that again real easily right here.

[ROB REPEATS TRACK SECTION FOR EXAMPLE]

Further processing is actually static meaning that it's not actually being -- there's no evolution going on in the remainder of the remainder of the signal path. The remainder of the signal path is over here. We have one parametric EQ that is being -- (1) is being modified or evolved over time but (2) is actually not being modified or evolved. As you can see, there is no action going on in the knobs.

And then you got a reverb contraption here, and this is not being automated. The reverb stereo output is going into two separate phasers and then back into a delay and then into another stereo delay and then into yet another parametric EQ with certain settings and then to us through the Sound Out module.

So, this has been a tour through the AAVA patch that comes with Audiomulch. Feel free when you download Audiomulch to experiment to your heart's content with the patches that Audiomulch comes with. It's an extremely easy way to get a look at the internals of Audiomulch and how some of these contraptions inter-relate and allow you to make everything from the most scuzzy noise to the most blissed-out synth patch such as we're hearing right now.

Hey, thanks a lot for watching. This is Rob Warmowski and this is Gearwire.Com.

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