Thursday, January 29, 2026
Stereo Triple Filter Network & Resonator // 3 Patches with OPALINA from Hieroglyphic
video upload by DivKid
"Coming in hot after Hieroglyphic's first release 'Plume' here we have OPALINA which is a stereo spectral playground. It's billed as a filter network, with triple band pass resonator modes and an isolator multi mode network. It has multi band outputs for creative modular processing, with the including expander it also has specific (and stereo) low mid and high band inputs. Loads to go at, but distilled down into exploring 3 patches here for our 3 PATCHES series of videos."
*TIMING INDEX // CHAPTERS*
The broader, patch by patch sections are in ALL CAPS and sub sections that might be useful to skip to are all lower case.
INTRO
00:00 Hello & previews
00:57 What is Opalina & what are we doing?
01:33 Feature run down
04:00 PATCH 1 // RAW SOUNDS & OSCILLATOR SHAPING
04.22 The raw sound of the resonator & isolator modes
05.49 Building a VCO shaping patch
07.24 Patching FX sends from specific frequency bands
08.25 Series channel patching for steeper filter slopes & more resonance
09.41 v/oct tracking
BONUS HYPNOPTIC MULTIBAND FILTER PINGS
11:40 / divkid for the full patch run down
PATCH 2 // SPECTRAL MIXING
12:45 Creative spectral mixing for multiple FX modules
15.15 Creating a multi band spectral mix
16.24 Modulating a spectral mix
17.32 Audio rate modulation
18:51 Spectral drum FX
20:43 Spectral Rings FX
22:51 PATCH 3 // MULTIBAND MODULAR PROCESSING
Also see:
This is KILLER! // Plume updates from hieroglyphic (new cluster mode & sound engine)
The fascinating world of PULSAR SYNTHESIS with Plume from hieroglyphic
via Hieroglyphic
Stereo state-variable filter networks configurable in two modes. RESONATOR is a triple bandpass alignment, emphasizing resonant peaks and formants. ISOLATOR is a cascaded state-variable topology with variable mid-bandwidth for use as resonant crossover.
· RESONATOR: triple bandpass filters with vc peak span and resonance. 12db/oct filter slopes.
· ISOLATOR: cascaded state-variable filters with vc bandwidth and resonance. 24db/oct filter slopes.
· Completely analog signal path.
· Individual band inputs and outputs.
· Continuously variable band input amplitude.
· Soft-clipping circuit on SUM output.
· Dual channel for use in stereo (L & R).
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
This is KILLER! // Plume updates from hieroglyphic (new cluster mode & sound engine)
video upload by DivKid
"I've been playing with the new v1.2 firmware updates for Plume from hieroglyphic and I have to say WOW, I was grinning and head bobbing along to this for ages before turning the camera on. The new firmware adds a 3 oscillator cluster mode and an overhauled new sound engine for it's pulsar synthesis core. It's part oscillator, voice, granulator and modulator, check out more with Plume in my first video with it here - • The fascinating world of PULSAR SYNTH..." [posted here]
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Pulsar Synthesis | A Microsound recipe by Curtis Roads
video upload by Cinematic Laboratory
"Before anything else I'd like to stress that this video was triggered by the Plume from Hieroglyphic, but doesn't feature it. It's NOT intended as click-bait, it's an educational video. If you took the bait, go watch DivKid [posted here] or Tom Churchill's walkthrough [posted here].
The concept is from Curtis Roads Microsound book. I read about the subject and tried to patch a few experiments with various results. Some good, some bad, and some turned out to be amazing. This video also fits my goals for 2024, where it's not always necessary to get yourself a new module when your existing modules still have plenty to offer. Happy patching!"
Sunday, June 16, 2024
Exploring pulsar synthesis with Hieroglyphic Plume
video upload by Tom Churchill
"Plume is the debut module from Hieroglyphic. It’s a digital oscillator based around pulsar synthesis, which is a fairly obscure technique devised by Curtis Roads in 2001, inspired by astronomical observations of neutron stars. In this video I build a few patches to explore the range of sounds it can produce - from complex stereo leads to West Coast-style wavefolded tones to rich, modulated drones.
Thanks to Hieroglyphic for supplying the module."
Chapters:
00:00 Patch previews
01:01 Introduction
02:16 A guided tour of Plume
11:37 Adding a sub-oscillator
16:11 Simulating Sofia-style synthesis
22:01 Plume as a complex LFO
25:45 West Coast wavefolded tones
27:46 Evolving ambient pads
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
The fascinating world of PULSAR SYNTHESIS with Plume from hieroglyphic
video upload by DivKid
"Have you heard of Pulsar Synthesis? If not come and learn along about what it is and how to use it and if you have then here's a refresher and some patch examples with Plume.
Plume is a new pulsar synthesis oscillator, think of it like a micro sound oscillator or modulator from new company hieroglyphic. Pulsar Synthesis is like granular synthesis but with synthesised waveforms treat as individual pulses rather than using samples like granular synthesis does. Any questions leave them in the comments.
This is one of my "3 patches with" style demos that distills things down to just 3 patches for a more condensed video. If you'd like to see something more in depth, or further patch examples, let us know in the comments."
https://www.hiero-glyphic.com/plume
"A fully-featured pulsar synthesizer for the Eurorack modular system. Using principles adopted from the Curtis Roads white-paper Sound Composition with Pulsars, Plume presents an approach to sound and rhythm that is somewhere between oscillator, granulator, and clock generator.
·96kHz/24-bit stereo outputs.
·Range switch (HI/LO) for use as VCO, LFO, or both.
·Formant and Cluster controls for complex output spectra.
·Continuously variable output wave shapes.
·West-Coast style wave folder.
·2 types of output masking for advanced spatialisation.
·Continuously variable pulsar window shape and amount.
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