Jade Starr Music

Continua

by Audio Damage

Six-voice virtual analog with morphing oscillators, dual filters and per-knob modulation

Mar 1, 202258 minWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 13:48Three oscillators morphing sine to square to saw, plus warp and skew
  2. 20:24Two filters, and routing oscillators through them in series or parallel
  3. 22:55The looping FEG envelopes riding a note up and back
  4. 25:12Double-tapping any knob to assign an LFO, the core of the modulation system
  5. 30:18Naming macro knobs that pull several parameters across both pages
  6. 37:56Factory banks: basses, keys, leads, pads and atmospheres

What it does

A six-voice virtual analog synth with three oscillators that morph continuously between waveform shapes, with warp and skew on top, plus FM and a noise source. Two filters can be fed in series or parallel from any oscillator. Modulation is the point: two ADSRs, two looping envelopes, four LFOs, sample and hold and eight named macros, and almost any knob can be double-tapped to accept a source. It runs standalone or as an AUv3 and was built around MPE.

In the demo

Jade builds a patch from a single oscillator outward, adding the second and third, the drive stage and both filters. She then wires one LFO to three separate controls, groups them under a named macro, maps delay feedback to an XY pad, and runs the factory pads and bass banks.

Worth knowing

Six voices is the ceiling, and the two-page layout means half the controls are always off-screen. Anyone who wants presets rather than patching will use a fraction of it.

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