Elevate your sound design and improve your synthesizer patching with these 24 patch tips from Superbooth 2024. Grab the free (or pay what you want to support) PDF document of tips too. You can try these ideas on anything you already have, they're non gear specific and apply to hardware, software, analogue, digital, modular etc.
While at Superbooth 2024 in Berlin I asked people for their best patch tips and these are the tips they gave me. Timing index below to skip around, give them a go and let us know how you get on in the comments.
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**TIMING INDEX // CHAPTERS**
00:00 Intro
01:16 Feedback everything // Music Thing Modular
01:43 Patch your swinging clock with an LFO // AtoVproject
01:56 Use noise an FM source for fluff & fire crackle // Starsky Carr
02:07 Manually interrupt arpeggios // U.D.O
02:27 The lo fi transistor radio // ModBap Modular
03:08 Sequence (transpose) your sequencers // Tom Churchill
03:21 Use switches for dynamic mix FX // WMD
03:49 Modulate decay times // Mylar Melodies
04:25 Delays before distortion // Expert Sleepers
05:04 Use sequencers to rhythmically sequence other sequencers // DPW Design
05:25 Use ring modulators as tremolo space makers // Jamie Lidell
06:58 Feedback FM with all pass filters // Instruo
07:16 Trigger function generators with oscillators // Stazma
07:46 Use sequencers to set pitch intervals // Five12
08:16 Mix CV sources for unique patterns // Anti Kulture
08:31 Audio rate modulation // Red Means Recording
09:16 Use AC coupling (high passing) to create new envelopes // Schlappi Engineering
09:36 Dynamic S/H based downsampling // Frap Tools
10:12 Feedback // Hainbach
10:33 Random pulses from standard clocks // Konstantine
10:48 Use random release times // The Unperson
10:59 Use velocity inputs with audio rate signals for AM FX // Weston Precision Audio
11:28 Use attenuators! // Technomadic
11:51 Sub oscillators as FM sources // Noise Lab
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