"secret weapon" waveshaper! (Patreon)

Hello all, 

hope you're well and having a good week. The past few days have seen me squirrelling away like crazy making the patches for this video demo. Moving the modules around the module and using external gear certainly adds to the time dump abyss that is video production! All good fun of course and I'm really impressed with this little shaper, rich waves blooming in the low end like tape saturation, drum bus glue limiting and saturation, waveshaping triangles to sines ... it goes on! 

Coming up will be a video with the Audio Gear Obsession Summing Facility (lovely high quality mixer) and I'll be back to working on the next DivKid module as that releases before the middle of June. Teaser video to come. 

All the best for now, don't forget to join the amazing community on Patreon, 10% discount off merch at bit.ly/divkidmerch using the code "divkidpatron", updated streaming resource at bit.ly/coronastreams , free Valhalla DSP Supermassive presets bit.ly/SUPERmassiveDIVKID (download the plug in too, it's free and totally ace).

Cheers! 

Ben. 

VIDEO DETAILS

Here we have the super powerful, triple channel tanh[3] waveshaper, compressor / limiter, soft clipping distorting saturator from Eurorack. It’s a 4HP Eurorack module that performs and tangential waveshaping function on the input (be it audio or CV). It will shape triangles to sines and ‘almost’ squares, it will add hold and sustain to envelopes, it adds harmonics or softens harmonics like the low end bloom of driving into tape. It’s totally dynamic to input level so simply using a VCA you can add CV control to the channels for a dynamic saturation and limiting of the signals. It’s often banded around as a “secret weapon” in Max MSP and Pure Data circles as there’s a tanh shaper object in those environments. As always I hope the video sparks lots of ideas for the module and your own systems. Any questions just ask, cheers! 

Website, manual and info at - https://bit.ly/TANH3

Other Instruo demo videos

ochd - https://youtu.be/ZtLzzYUtZcw

Intro to Instruo workshop - https://youtu.be/IgSQ_OK2vfY

Tona - https://youtu.be/aAXT7T26gck

Ts-L - https://youtu.be/LLkyTFM7Ta0

Arbhar & Guitar - https://youtu.be/ZL-G1h8MfG4

TIMING INDEX // SECTIONS

00:00 Hello & patch previews

01:21 tanh[3] feature run down - what makes it special? 

02:57 Waveshaping triangles (through sines to almost squares)

03:29 Waveshaping sine waves

03:41 Using VCAs for dynamic “CV-able” shaping

03:56 Waveshaping ramp / saw waves with tape like low end “bloom”

04:28 Waveshaping folded waves (nice extra distortion)

04:45 Waveshaping mixed unison oscillators

05:06 MAGIC feedback control with the EP3 Echoplex Tape Echo

06:20 PWM anything! Adding stereo shifting asymmetrical clipping for PWM FX.

07:42 Smashing basslines for hard compression, limiting and saturation.

09:02 Waveshaping sub audio LFOs

10:11 Dynamic accents for beats and patches

11:12 Using saturation for stereo imaging and adding contrast with distorted FX

12:43 CV controlled feedback control with spring reverb

13:43 Re-distributing random voltages

14:49 Triple channel chain for DOOM guitar + spitting fuzz FX

16:28 Cyclical saturation for characterful tremolo - soft ambient guitar

17:31 Variable kick drum saturation with accents + woody sine shaped bass

19:04 Limiting envelopes for added hold & sustain + stereo patch ideas

20:40 Drum bus glue warmth and weight + stereo FX processing

22:21 Filter feedback - how to create it and making filters grungy

23:49 Parallel processing samples and breaks for weight and dynamics

25:09 Driven FX chains