#ring modulation

[scavengedluxury]

be very afraid

[pedalgallery]

Lovetone Ring Stinger

England, 1999

[kagaminemodulesdaily]

☆Kagamine Modules of the day:

Seraphim On The Ring illustrated by Ryuuguu Tsukasa!

[immortalsins]

professor just told us about a guy who extracted his own stem cells to grow a piece of bone in the shape of an engagement ring for his gf thats soooo

[fuzzkaizer]

Death By Audio - RING-FUZZ

"Ollie [Ollie Ackermann, Death by Audio] made me a custom pedal back when Skywave was ending/APTBS was beginning ... Extreme fuzz with 5-position ring modulator. When the ring was activated, every knob changed its purpose. ...

[5 positions for] 5 different “frequencies.” You could activate just the Ring, and it would be changed with adjustments to the “synth” and volume…but you could also activate the fuzz as well, and then the ring could be adjusted with ANY of the knobs. You’d go from “sorta standard” ring sounds, to what I can only assume are the death rattles of HAL…

All at a volume level of insane proportions (it IS a DBA after all)… "

cred: facebook.com/Donald Burke

[algebraic-dualist]

Given a category C and an object A define a witness for A of length n as a sequence of objects S_1, S_2, ..., S_{n+1} and morphisms f_1 : S_1 -> S_2, f_2 : S_2 -> S_3, ..., f_{n} : S_{n} -> S_{n+1} such that 1. each f_i is a monomorphism but not an epimorphism. 2. S_{n+1} is isomorphic to A Define the dimension of A as the maximum number n such that there exists a witness for A of length n.

For finite-dimensional vector spaces this works nicely: given a vector space V generated by e_1, e_2, ..., e_n we can build a sequence of increasing subspaces < > -> <e_1> -> <e_1, e_2> -> ... -> <e_1, e_2, ..., e_n> = V showing dim(V) \ge n. It's not very hard to see that this is best you can do, so dim(V) = n. Unfortunately, this doesn't work well in the land of Z-modules, because we have shit like ... -> p^n Z -> p^(n-1) Z -> \cdots -> p^2 Z -> p Z -> Z so sadly we don't get the righteous conclusion that dim(Z) = 0, but rather it turns out dim(Z) = infinity.

[parti-poppers]

[locally-normal]

Maybe I should stop telling people I'm an algebraic topologist and just say I do homotopical algebra. It's truer I think. But less well known. Which is weird because everyone knows about homotopy theory.

I guess the brave new algebra program was only fully realized fairly recently.

[deliandiver]

DUT: AD633 based Multiplier/Balanced Modulator

[taperwolf]

I was going through an old book of circuits — one volume of the "Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits" series, which basically just collected a bunch of schematics from electronics magazines and datasheets and slapped categories on them; there are some obvious failings to the model, but the books are interesting browsing — when I found something that I could immediately test with my modular synth.

See, the circuit was a sine wave oscillator that worked by using a four-quadrant multiplier. The concept was that you fed an existing sine wave into both inputs, multiplying it by itself, and thereby got the two products of such a multiplication: a DC voltage and a sine wave at double the original frequency. (Strictly speaking, if the original is sin θ, the result is 2 cos θ, but you can ignore the phase offset. And the question of in exactly which circumstances you'd have a sine wave but need a different one at double the frequency is left as an exercise for the reader.)

But at any rate, in modular synthesis, another term for "four-quadrant multiplier" is "ring modulator". And when I tried it out, putting two copies of the same sine wave from my VCO into my ring mod, it worked like a charm: a new sine wave at double the frequency: that is, a note one octave up. I could mix it back together with the original wave to get the opposite of a suboctave.

So now I'm imagining some kind of additive synthesis setup — where you create complex waveforms by summing large numbers of different sine waves — where the components are created by banks of ring mods. Except I'm not sure of how you'd generate any other frequencies than powers of two of the originals, which probably limits the utility somewhat.

Really, the point is that it's fascinating to me when you can so clearly illustrate the connection between abstract electronics and musical concepts, and how fuzzy the line is between computation and playing an instrument.

[mon3trs]

after raising ines and mumu i‘ve finally gotten kal'tsit her y module and it turns out that machine gun mon3tr is pretty dope

[waste-of-bandwidth]

TAX EVASION

[autistic-shaiapouf]

I. may have accidentally certified myself for pharmacy technician work

[r5h]

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2609/

[fuzzkaizer]

Maestro - Ring Modulator

cred: facebook.com/Cameron Burt

[circleofshit]

Première étape, promo partie 1 :

Vous n'aurez pas - encore - l'album de Pagan Ring "Ordalies" tout de suite car il doit sortir sur un vrai label, Infrastition, ou plutôt une division de celui-ci, Cynfeirdd.

Soyons précis.

En attendant, et pour se remémorer le parcours de nos diverses collaborations musicales depuis 2011, voici un genre de récapitulatif : "Collected Works (2011-2025)", et ça continue.

Pour vous mettre en appétit nous vous proposons d'écouter "Messed Up", un extrait du futur album qui sert de trait d'union entre passé, présent et futur.

Celui-ci n'est pas représentatif de l'album car le style d' "Ordalies" est plutôt orienté Folk Rituel.

Si vous le voulez, vous aurez la valeur ajoutée de Black Egg et des albums de The Wicker Man, et bien plus encore.

Étant tous deux des chanteurs "contrariés" dans nos principales formations (Norma Loy et Les Modules Étranges) nous nous mettons ici à nu dans un exercice rare ou inhabituel.

Sur Collected Works en revanche, vous aurez plutôt nos obsessions bruitistes et expérimentales. Je laisse à de futurs éventuels chroniqueurs le soin de créer des liens et des affiliations (modestement) avec des formations pionnières du genre.

Notez en passant qu'il est dédicacé aux légendaires Jhonn et Sleazy de Coil, pour d'obscures raisons.

Voilà, c'est une sortie digitale sans prix, sans réel but et sans prétention, un amuse-bouche ou plus un amuse-oreilles.

Les musiciens sont souvent les plus mal placés pour parler de leurs travaux.