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Earthquaker Devices made a VCO and it's a big bold one! (Patreon)

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2024-01-18 17:05:33

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2024-01

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VCO demo earthquaker devices oscillator the wave transformer

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Hello,

hope you're well. Things are good here, beyond the never end waves of cold/bugs and winter fun times. It's a pleasure to bring you a nice fulsome demo, rich with musical ideas and creative applications of functions found on The Wave Transformer. A new VCO from Earthquaker Devices, yes the pedal company, yes it feels slightly odd it's not another pedal port but I'm into and they did a great job.

Demo here // https://youtu.be/MoONfZU7YsM

I first got to try the oscillator back at Knobcon, where it was on a non-private, but certainly not a big song and dance of first showing. I saw for a good while in headphones mangling the hell out of it and other things with and through it. Likewise with the demo, I could have kept going with ideas for variations on using the functions.

It has all the typical VCO functions you'd expect, 7 waveforms outs, a novel 'complex' transforming circuit, subs, sync and FM. What's interesting is that they've opened up the wave shaping and sub generation to track and work with external sources. Something lots of oscillators don't do.

Check out the demo and leave a comment over there (smash the living hard sync out of the like too while you're there - silly joking aside is does help).

I'm going to have to pause Jamuary after today, as I'm going to be away but it's for something exciting, more on that soon. I'll be back next week with new videos, posts and all the Discord stuff.

Have a great end to the week, ta ta for now!

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Complex Morphing VCO, Subs, FM & more // The Waveform Transformer by Earthquaker Devices (Eurorack)

Well this was a surprise! Earthquaker Devices (makers of fine pedal FX) making a Eurorack oscillator. Yes they made the Afterneath module, but as that was a modular version of a pedal I didn't expect they come guns glazing with a big, bold VCO! I first saw The Waveform Transformer by Earthquaker Devices at Knobcon, where they brought it along for an early look and sat playing with it at the show I knew they were onto something that sounded great. Well now it's released here we are with a demo. The Waveform Transformer is a 20HP Eurorack oscillator, it's analog, with onboard complex, transforming wave shaping, sub generators with unique shapes, FM, sync, LOTS of precise tuning control and options to wave shape external sources, saturate audio and track subs from your other oscillators. I've had lots of fun with this one! Website, info, manual & more // https://bit.ly/EQD-WaveTransformer *SUPPORT //* If you'd like to support work like this and the wider range of what I do, considering heading over to Patreon at https://bit.ly/DK-patreon and supporting for as little as $1 a month to gain access to the DivKid Discord community, plus lots of exclusives such as PDF patchbooks, videos and more. https://bit.ly/DK-patreon *AFFILIATE LINKS //* use these to support my channel! I get a small kickback at no expense to you when you shop. Clockface Modular // https://bit.ly/DK-clockface Patchwerks // https://bit.ly/DK-patchwerks Perfect Circuit // https://bit.ly/PC-EQD-WT Thomann // https://bit.ly/DK-thomann *TIMING INDEX // CHAPTERS* 00:00 Hello & patch rreviews 01:36 Feature run down 04:04 Novel transform/complex circuit 06:37 Complex transforms & Shape Insert-ing waves 08:48 Thick & rich PWM + bulbous stereo sub bass 10:58 Weird & wonderful audio rate PWM 13:14 Harmonic Gate / VCA - turning it into a full voice 14:55 Shifting tearing sub textures 16:15 Hard sync & how to make it act like a filter 17:56 Soft sync - classic sync tones under modulation 20:36 Exploring linear & exponential FM 23:02 Kick drum transformed - from classy saturation to glitchy fuzz 25:13 Cosmic FSU with death mangled guitars & subs 26:36 Sub accents - what are they and a simple way to add them 28:08 Harmonic shifting subs for external oscillators ***THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY EARTHQUAKER DEVICES*** they have funded the creation of this demo video. Any questions just ask. Join the amazing growing community on Discord by supporting at https://www.patreon.com/DivKid Subscribe for more DivKid videos: http://bit.ly/DivKidYTSub https://divkidvideo.com https://www.instagram.com/divkidvideo/ https://twitter.com/divkid