Vortex patch

[Jeff Schwartz <jeffs@bgnet.bgsu.edu>]

I'm into the Vortex patch swap idea-the rest of y'all should speak up if 
it gets annoying. 
This is one of my favorites for leads-it's a kind of a ring modulated deal.
Shimmer B
mix- 64
output- 64
mod level- 0
echo level- 64
morph- 16
envelope- 32
echo 1- 2
echo 2- 3
feedback 1- 28
feedback 2-37
rate 1-61
depth 1-61
resonance 1- 4
rate 2- 20
depth 2-59
resonance 2-16

I'm hoping that by swapping our sounds, I'll have a better sense of how to 
exploit the 
swirly beast. Like, both of the patches folks posted before were for 
looping and 
involved morphing between series and parallel delays, right? I never 
thought of that 
before.  It's going to be fun to play with.

This sound here is one of those things where you're going to hear only the 
delayed 
sound, so tap a musical interval (like, 1 or 2 beats, or a measure, 
depenmding on tempo) 
and play that much ahead of the rest of what's going on on stage (this 
visually freaks 
people out too, like a poorly dubbed movie, a bonus  stolen from Henry 
Kaiser). You 
could get just the modulated sound, instead of just the delayed, but I 
like how this 
sounds-running the modulated stuff through the echo for the short time 
gives it a cool 
doubled effect and with a longer tapped time, the 2/3 echo comes into 
play.  
I like the sound of ring modulation-it's not a sound that's been used much 
outside of 
academic electronic music-I dig that about the Vortex, almost every show I 
do with it, 
folks ask me "what was that effect?" becuase they've heard a sound that 
they've never 
heard live before (like ring modulation or pedal controlled flanging or 
echos with the 
regeneration pedal controlled)... Also, ring modualtion changes the pitch 
relationships 
(or is it the harmonic content?) of what I play so, even though I may be 
playing a habit 
pattern (major scale), what's coming out is something new and different. 
Damn I'm lazy 
sometimes....

-- 
Jeff Schwartz
jeffs@bgnet.bgsu.edu
http://www.bgsu.edu/~jeffs/main.html