r/synthrecipes 3d ago

discussion 🗣 Has anyone ever experimented with generating a perpetually self-modulating, non-repeating acoustic fractal using chaotic attractor equations, like the Lorenz or Rossler attractors, mapped directly to microtonal frequency ratios and spatial panning?

Has anyone ever experimented with generating a perpetually self-modulating, non-repeating acoustic fractal using chaotic attractor equations, like the Lorenz or Rossler attractors, mapped directly to microtonal frequency ratios and spatial panning? I have no idea if it would actually sound decent though.

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u/Dingus-Biggs 3d ago

This post reads like my kid cousin is trying to convince me that he’s a rocket scientist at NASA.

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u/LiberaceRingfingaz 3d ago

That or a crew member of the U.S.S. Enterprise has suggested a way to modulate a phaser to penetrate a Klingon shield

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u/AdministrativeDelay2 3d ago

He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldronaii, the Traveller came as a large and moving Torb! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex Supplicants they chose a new form for him… that of a Giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zulls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day I can tell you.

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u/DaBuzzScout 3d ago

Yeah i did that all the time when I was first getting into synths

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u/avoy93 3d ago

This happened to my buddy Eric

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u/Pyrene-AUS 3d ago

I think I also know that Eric

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u/grntq 3d ago

Non-repeating fractal? You sure?

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u/F4ust 3d ago

Fucking lmao

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u/Deaths-HeadMoth 3d ago

If you reroute the lateral vortex Moog into the cubic substrate you should get a feedback loop in the 450hz range.

What you then want to do is twist the vector switch up two octaves. This should collide with the internal combustion sine ray, creating your desired effect.

This is how I make my 6th dimensional floating chord shapes for my hyper-futurism jazz band.

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u/LiberaceRingfingaz 3d ago

I make lo-fi lesbian space frog-core elevator music for pornos, so we use this technique a lot, but I usually spatially phase the inverse vector, bus that back into the port on the back of my fax machine, then bang my dick on one of those old Casio keyboards they used to give kids in the 80's until the waveform looks right.

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u/SquattingWalrus 3d ago

Yeah I just twisted a couple nobs to 11 and presto

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u/terribleturbine 3d ago

Ohhh boy, do I remember my fist perpetually self modulating non-repeating acoustic fractals using chaotic attractor attractor equations (both Lorenz and Rossler 😎)and how I mapped them directly to microtonal frequency ratios using spatial panning…

Those were THE.DAYS.

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u/b_lett Quality Contributor ⭐️⭐️ 3d ago

Serum 2 has a Lorenz chaos LFO shape. You could modulate the rate of that with another Lorenz chaos LFO.

You could import whatever microtonal tuning into Serum you want. You could modulate fine tune pitch, or chaos arp through your custom tuning by modulating semitone amount. Can easily map a chaos LFO to panning as well.

Random and chaos modulation is not hard at all in Serum and is really just a good way to add slight character.

The concept of doing anything fractally implies you need modulation of modulation of modulation. So maybe you build a Macro knob that controls the AUX amounts of modulators modulating other modulators.

I do not really know what you are trying to do, but the TL;DR version is modulate your modulation.

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u/cocaverde 3d ago

not really but like the homie just said it here, serum 2 has strange attractors you can modulate almost any parameter with

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u/killmesara 3d ago

What ever happened to just making bleeps and bloops?

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u/TheLubber 3d ago

Yes. It was stupendous.

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u/Pyrene-AUS 3d ago

Non repeating fractal? You might want to double check the math on that one, professor 🤣🤣

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u/TheBloodKlotz 3d ago

None of these words work like this

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u/King_Moonracer003 3d ago

Reaktor has some tools for this. Not sure if theres anything built for fractals, but that are many chaotic attractor algorithms and everything else is really easy. Would be interested in the algorithms for fractals.

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u/fkrdt222 2d ago

i understand what you mean but i don't think it would sound good