TIMING INDEX / SECTIONS BELOW Here we have a real powerhouse and backbone of a modular system. The Joranalogue Contour 1 is a Slew Limiter & Function Generator which can be an envelope generator, LFO, oscillator, audio processor, filter, PWM generator, subharmonic divider, gate delay, slew/lag/glide and plenty more. This video is aimed to be an indepth educational look at functions and features that really play into the core of a modular system. Skip around the video with the timing index below and try applying these examples to your own modules too. I hope this serves as an education reference for those features as well as clearly demonstrates the Contour 1 Eurorack module. Leave a comment and if you get something from these videos consider supporting on www.patreon.com/divkid

THUMBNAIL "We all need this" we absolutely do all need these functions in a system, function generators and slew limiters are really the backbone of a modular system. Think Serge DUSG and all the variants that have followed, these modules can do SO much it's nuts!

Website + info http://bit.ly/contourone

TIMING INDEX / SECTIONS

INTRO, PREVIEWS, FEATURES

00:00 My fugly mug

00:15 Video previews

01:41 Contour 1 features what is a slew limiter / function generator? What can it do etc.

ENVELOPES

03:11 Envelope Generator gated and triggered behaviour, plus merging triggers, gates and LFOs to create dynamic modulation.

SLEW LIMITER

06:41 Slew Limiting + freezing voltages with the hold input slew, lag, glide + more

LFOs

08:26 LFOs LFO shapes and curves, gated on/off + triggering resets

11:09 Complex shapes with modulated LFOs using modulation to create fluctuating random style complex CV shapes.

ENVELOPE FOLLOWER

11:54 Envelope following and deriving gates from audio using a drum beat to create a dynamic CV shape and using audio as an input to derive in time gate signals from the rise/fall outputs.

AUDIO FILTER

14:14 Low pass filter using the module as a filter to smooth out audio and using the bend to reshape curves in the audio

15:53 Low pass filter BONUS 1 using the rise and fall outs for stereo PWM FX, creating buzzy bright textures to mix with the filtered audio

16:42 Low pass filter BONUS 2 using another oscillator for audio rate hold or gating on top of the filtering for sync like overtones

OSCILLATOR

17:30 Oscillator behaviour quick arpeggio exploration with Contour 1 as an oscillator

17:59 Pitch dependent vibrato adding vibrato and harmonic shifts to Contour 1 as an oscillator

19:28 How to improved saw wave oscillator behaviour

GATE DELAY

20:18 Gate delays create delayed gates for custom grooves and flams

DYNAMIC ENVELOPES + SLEW

21:58 Dynamic envelopes merging envelope generation and slew processing for more dynamic voltages.

DRUM / PERCUSSION SYNTHESIS

24:36 Creating kick drums right out of Contour 1

25:52 Definitely NOT a snare drum

26:48 Weird custom percussion sounds

UNIQUE AUDIO PROCESSING

27:35 Creating downsampler like alias FX audio rate hold modulation.

28:49 Stereo PWM BEAST!!! plus bonus audio rate overtones.

30:35 Subharmonic generator/divider classic Serge style patching to create subharmonic undertones.

33:32 Combined AM/FM a great patch from manual showing how using Contour 1 as an oscillator then adding an oscillator to the input creates a mixed amplitude and frequency modulated behaviour … it’s very musical.


*THANK YOU to Joranalogue for sponsoring this video. By sponsoring the video they are funding the creation of a demo/overview video. THIS IS NOT A REVIEW, nor did the sponsor have any control over the content*



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