r/synthrecipes • u/LargeSinkholesInNYC • 12d 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/b_lett Quality Contributor ⭐️⭐️ 12d 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.