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Cool, thanks!


Here are some demos I made when I got my Euro ZO sometime ago, feel free to pass them on!
Only additions are a little reverb, slight delay & rhythm track.


basic patch: 
     http://www.pete-marshall.net/zo1.mp3

bell tones:

     http://www.pete-marshall.net/zo2.mp3

flippin the bias: 

     http://www.pete-marshall.net/zo3.mp3

I just remembered I need another ZO! :)




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From: cyndustries <cynthia.webster@gte.net>
To: The_Cyndustries_List@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2011, 17:35
Subject: [The_Cyndustries_List] Zeroscillator Tips n Tricks...


  
We are considering the release of a Serge version of 
some of our designs, including an M-Class module
with a Zeroscillator, a Sawtooth Animator, and a
Low Pass Gate/ Mixer channel.

A pair of the sub-assemblies  could be mounted to 
a full size panel to make a second form factor available.
All for the thinnest or most shallow Serge boats too.

Someone there , unfamiliar with the ZO was not terribly 
impressed with the sounds samples and we here have to
agree that there is so very much more that a ZO can do
than is hinted at by that handful of early samples...

So I wrote this response below to the Serge list and I 
think that there are some juicy tidbits that I may not 
have explained before, so here they are for our group!

Re: Serge Format Zeroscillators

I Agree with you John, the sound samples are pretty tame.

We did those samples several years ago and we too have learned much
about how to use the mighty Zeroscillators ourselves in the meantime :)

One of the best features of the Zeroscillator when doing its FM thing
is that it sounds like a ~real~ big sheet of metal being beaten and ringing, 
or chimes, or woodblocks, or bells...

Almost as an afterthought in the design, I added the Through-Zero on/off
Switch and boy am I glad that I did, because there are hundreds of times when 
listening to a patch one might say, "ok, what would this patch sound like if
I didn't use a through-zero oscillator?", and after flipping the switch...
you cannot help but crack a big smile and say, "wow, I'm glad I got this!"
because there is a big difference.

When realizing analog linear FM patches without through-zero technology 
they  tend to have a pitch shift on each note and a klangorous or cartoony
special-effectsy type sound, (think of Isao Tomita's "Golliwogs Cakewalk" 
which I feel is delightful for one piece on the album, but if all of the notes 
were that goofy all the time, then the ear would rapidly tire of it).  
Not so with the ZO,  and we haven't even discussed the vocal qualities of
modulating the Time Reversal input, etc.

The difference is that with the Through-Zero Switch on, that characterization 
of a sound, becomes more sonically pure, (meaning a cleaner overall mix
of your piece) and the notes are more musical, and sound more realistic by far.

Someday I must do a demonstration video on this.

There are plenty of things that the Zeroscillator brings to the Serge table,
plus Sawtooth Animators and Low Pass Gates!

BTW, with the Sawtooth Animator you can patch an LFO output back into the
VCO, PCO, or NTO that is modulating it and create an interesting feedback loop.
The patch sort of works its way up to a tizzy and the stabilizes.  When you pull 
that patch cord making the loop, the whole thing goes through all of the wild
gyrations winding back down and that would be lots of fun to interact those loops
into submodule circuit sections of the Serge.

There are close to (500) Zeroscillators out there in (33) countries, there is definitely 
something cool and different about using them, I think you definitely might enjoy one too!

Here are some sources of more sound sample which may be helpful

http://soundcloud.com/modularland/dustontop

http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/search/label/Cynthia

http://vimeo.com/2723697

Best Wishes!

Cynthia

http://www.cyndustries.com/


--- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, John P <johnp299792@...> wrote:
>
> Does anyone here have hands-on experience with the ZO? While the idea 
> sounds interesting, none of the demos have done anything for me.
>
--- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, John P <johnp299792@...> wrote:

>
> Does anyone here have hands-on experience with the ZO? While the idea 
> sounds interesting, none of the demos have done anything for me.

>