Ultimately, I think a lot of what you get out of granular synthesis in terms of harshness depends on what samples you put in, or else how you process the output. For me, the Nebulae seems most suited to "sample concrete" style applications. Not necessarily super-harsh shit, just audio cuts and digital glitching/scrubbing effects, and of course the more standard droning beds or strident buzzing tones.Jeep wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 11:09 am Can anybody point me some video or audio of artists using Qu-Bit Nebulae in the harsh noise context? I am curious to see the potential of this module for noise. All audio and videos that i found just showed Nebulae making beautiful drone sounds or techno rhythmics stuff (what i don't like). Really appreciate for some help. Thanks.
I tend to use it mainly for scrubbing across and cycling through sets of samples, with the best results coming from dynamic samples that give me a lot of material to pick out dynamically/tonally varied sections from. Never used any proper distortion modules, but I find the actual excess of headroom in eurorack to be pretty frustrating where my attempts at achieving a quality of line-level, broken, cruddy, saturated harshness is concerned...
Anyway, I have some examples of it being used for kinda-concrete generative nonsense, but not anything especially harsh:
A lot of what's happening involves just cycling through samples on the nebulae, randomly recording chunks of the output into other sampling modules and randomly modulating the parameters all over the patch.
I made a note on that second video, a good reminder to RTFM:
Turns out, you can set the Nebulae to select the next sample in random order, instead of playing in one order, which I only realized later....the main sound source simply cycles through its library of user samples in order, and the only real way to disrupt, or at least partially mask, the rote order of what samples are heard is to feed it chaotic triggers in order to hopefully make it stop and start reading samples at reliably indiscernible intervals, and with reliably chaotic looping patterns and pattern lengths for the samples themselves.
FYI, I can't even get that second video to play on two separate browsers because Bitchute is a janky, broken pile of dogshit... Your results may differ!