Piqued is a complex envelope generator app on Ornament and Crime Eurorack module. Piqued can generate very complex envelope shapes, can be a LFO for patch modulation, and can even be an oscillator too. With some creative selfpatching you can even eliminate a few VCAs from your setup.

The simplest use for Piqued is to generate ADSR envelopes which you can use with a voltage controlled amplifier (VCA) or to modulate movement in your modular patches. By sending it a trigger Piqued can generate up to 4 separate envelopes which you can sculpt to be exactly the length and shape you want.

But Piqued can do so much more than that. Envelopes can be set to loop which means that the envelope keeps repeating over and over. Looping envelopes are great for modulating movement in a patch, like a filter or oscillator for example. Another way to think of looping envelopes is as a lowfrequency oscillator (LFO). Typically an LFO has a simple waveform like a sine wave or triangle wave. With Piqued you can create very complex LFO shapes which would be difficult to achieve using standard modules.

If you clock an LFO fast enough it becomes an oscillator! Piqued’s envelopes can be set to loop so fast that they generate audiorate tones. With some creative patching you can turn Piqued into a full synth voice, complete with its own VCA.

In this detailed tutorial I explain what Piqued is, how it works, and give you tips and tricks for using it in your patches.

Here are links to my other Ornament and Crime tutorials:
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Copiermaschine cascading sample and hold generator:    • Ornament and Crime Copiermaschine. Fu...  
Harrington 1200 chord generator:    • Harrington 1200 Ornament and Crime fu...  
Acid Curds dual 8 step chord sequencer:    • Acid Curds chord sequencer tutorial. ...  
Quantermain quad quantiser:    • Quantise all the Things! Ornament and...  

Detailed Timeline:

00:00 Introduction to Ornament and Crime Piqued
00:21 User interface tour what do the knobs and buttons do

02:30 How to set the envelope segment shapes
02:55 Creating complex envelope shapes

03:41 Wiring a basic patch
04:42 Sending an envelope into VCA
05:23 Editing envelope shapes while playing
06:21 Delaying envelope triggers on filter
07:35 Put it all together envelopes in a VCA and VCF

08:20 Manually triggering envelopes as a performance tool
11:26 Envelope retriggering and reset modes, what happens when a gate arrives during envelope
14:34 Creating very long envelopes (minutes long)

16:49 Looping envelopes and using envelopes as LFOs
1816: Practical looping envelope example applied to a filter
19:13 Looping envelopes with complex shapes

19:44 Controlling envelope amplitude, how loud is your envelope?
20:23 Modulating an envelope with another envelope save on VCAs!
22:14 Modulating envelope loop timing to vary how the envelope plays
23:01 Crazy example of envelopes modulating each other

23:45 Turning an envelope into an oscillator
25:41 How to ‘tune’ the oscillator
26:50 Playing the envelope as an oscillator through a VCA

28:08 Euclidean trigger patterns on envelopes for complex rhythms
30:39 Practical example of euclidean pattern on filter envelope
32:58 CV control of euclidean parameters for even more dynamic rhythms
33:55 Euclidean trigger rhythms with drums

36:22 Thanks for watching and one last jam!

Gear used in this video:
Ornament and Crime multifunction modules
ALM Pamelas New Workout
ALM MCO oscillator
Mutable Instruments Ripples filter
Expert Sleepers Disting Mk4
Modulaire Maritime Decca
Noise Engineering Mimetic Digitalis
ST Modular PUSH
Befaco Out
Manhattan Analog Mix
Arturia Keystep

Presented in my 60hp ‘Accra’ case from Modulaire Maritime

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