Erica Synths - Graphic VCO *Introduction & First Patch Jam*

Published on Apr 29, 2018 DivKidVideo

"Here's my introduction and first patch play around with the Erica Synths Graphic VCO. As I often do I wanted to share my literal first patch, which It think always reveals a good amount about a module. What's immediate? How does the interface feel? What sounds jump out with ease? I'm very impressed with the interface on this and having two encoders and a button is incredibly quick to fly around a range of great settings and sounds. The tune-able sub is a nice touch with options to blend the main output into the second sub orientated output, as is the option to have different waveforms or a copy of the main waveform for the sub. In depth and comprehensive video to come in the not too distant future."

Fun fact: Erica Synths' Graphic VCO made it's first appearance back in April 2015. You can find additional posts here.

How to draw your own Wavetables with the Graphic VCO from Erica Synths

Dziam Bass

"Hey All!

You want to DRAW your own Wavetables in a module - Here You go!

The Graphic VCO from Erica Synths is a wavetable module with a lot of functions, I looked through a bit with drawing and a look at some effects.🔥

Mainly I wanted to show you a wide range that you can draw your own wavetables yourself, you can save them later also use them and combine them with others also yours or others provided in Graphic VCO.

A little o the same module .... Erica Synths Graphic VCO allows you to draw your own waveforms, arrange them in wavetables and wavetable banks, morph between two selected waves and alter the resulting wave in advanced ways (FXes) - apply FM, phase distortion , ring modulation, wavefold / wavewrap, bitcrush.

I really like Morphing between two selected waves, Wavetable matrix design and other great features, but that's what I'll show in the second part.

as I mentioned here drawing and adding a few effects as modulators."

Erica Synths Graphic VCO

Published on Jul 3, 2018 Perfect Circuit Audio

"All of the sounds you hear in this video are from the Graphic VCO except a few drums from the Basimilus Iteritas Alter and Plonk. Erica Synths Graphic VCO is a digital wavetable oscillator with tons of waveforms built in that can be morphed, warped, crushed, driven, FMed, Phase Distorted and more. You can draw and modify waveforms on the module and control the overtones. A 3D matrix of wavetables can be modulated through as well. In this video modulation is provided by the Erica Synths Joystick Controller and Malekko Quad LFO.

Available here: https://www.perfectcircuitaudio.com/e..."

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MESSE 2015: Erica Synths Graphic VCO

Published on Apr 20, 2015 sonicstate

"MESSE 2015: Erica Synths Graphic VCO Erica Synths give us a look at their Graphic VCO and more"

WAVETABLE OSCILLATOR | Erica Synths Graphic VCO

video upload by DANIELE

0:00 Intro
0:28 A/B Mode
0:53 Waveform editing
1:30 Morphing between waveforms
2:05 Effects section
3:32 Sub-oscillator
4:13 Scope
4:19 Snapshots
4:25 Rearrange, edit, create wavetables
4:31 Other settings
4:44 Wavetable mode
5:48 Wavetables matrix mode
6:32 Drum mode

"I know I'm late to the game, but no one told me this oscillator was so good! In this video I'm exploring what the Erica Synths Graphic VCO is capable of, without going too deep. Check out Erica Synths videos of this module if you want to listen to some amazing sounds and dive deeper into the drum mode!"

Graphic VCO & Black Octasource- Erica Synths unboxing and first sound!

Published on Feb 27, 2019 Dziam Bass

"As always, we have a video of unboxing and a little announcement how it looks and sounds the module on the first day.
Graphic VCO from Erica Synths is really a beast when it comes to wavetable and undoubtedly this kind of synthesis is needed by anyone looking for new sounds. It is known that the anlogic sound is always great but you have to open slightly imaginative to recognize that just such a digital VCO as Graphic VCO can offer us infinite sound possibilities especially when it has on board are amazing FX like FM, Ringmod, Phase distortion, Wavewrap or wavefolder and more, with the addition of this to wavetable and the sound morphing function, you start to realize how great the possibilities are giving you new waves that you can draw.
In addition, for obtaining a beautiful morph in a certain time, the Black Octasource - powerful LFO with morphing function, together acts as one organism moving your wavetable sounds in an amazing way.
Sound -Graphic VCO & Black Octasource / Drums-Pico Drums!"

Erica Synths Black Joystick 2

video by Erica Synths

"Erica Synths Black Joystick2 is 4 channel multi functional CV and sound source – joystick, movement recorder, distinct LFO and drone/noise oscillator. It provides great interaction with the modular system and allows to develop unconventional modulation patterns easily.

Timeline:

00:00​ Patch 1 - Ripper bass - Joystick CH1 set to audio rate sine modulating the Stereo Delay from CH2 which is also set to work as audio rate sine

00:33​ Patch 2 - Much Techno - Controlling the Cymbals Ride tune & decay with Joystick CH1, Crash decay with CH2 and BHDSP 2 rate and fx parameter with CH3

01:46​ Patch 3 - Wave Surfer - Controlling Graphic VCO wavetable matrix with Joysticks CH1, delay time, dry/wet mix and feedback with CH2 to CH4

02:55​ Patch 4 - Slice Master - Controlling Sample Drum slice index, sample select and sample tune with X axis of first three Joystick channels

04:53​ Patch 5 - Bleep Bloop - Joystick in audio rate mode through the Stereo Delay which delay time parameters is also modulated with the Joystick

05:16​ Patch 6 - Drone Zone - Droning with Black VCO, LPG and Stereo Delay. Joystick is controlling VCO FM & PWM, LPG offset and delay time

06:26​ Patch 7 - Wave Drummer - Graphic VCO in Drum and Black Stereo Delay are triggered and controlled with Joystick in S&H mode

08:15​ Patch 8 - S&H Everything! - Pico Drums, Pico Drums 2 and BHDSP 2 are controlled and triggered with Joystick in S&H mode

09:21​ Patch 9 - Sine drone - First three channels of the Joystick are used as audio sources and CH4 is used to control the BHDSP2 crush setting"

GESTA X KODEK - MACHINERY 002 // Live @ Erica Synths Lab

Published on Dec 23, 2015 Erica Synths

"MODULAR TECHNO JAM

No preparation have been made before, everything was made live.
Prepare your ears for raw techno and some heavy oscillator tuning.
The project starts out in early 2016. Remain alert for new developments.

https://soundcloud.com/gesta
https://soundcloud.com/kodek
https://soundcloud.com/ritmika

Synth voices:
Erica Synths Graphic VCO
Erica Synths Varishape VCO
MI Elements
MI Braids

FX:
Erica Synths Black Hole DSP x2

Drums:
TR-9090 built by Girts Ozolins
AIRA TR-8 is being used just as sequencer for TR-9090

Octatrack is being used just as master clock source."

Ambient eurorack with great wavetable oscillator Graphic VCO and Black Octasource- Erica Synths

Published on Apr 11, 2019 Dziam Bass

"Today I have film with the use of Graphic VCO from Erica Synths a great wavetable oscillator and Black Octasource - a very nice LFO released in this film by S&H and using a built-in quantizer from Graphic VCO .
Graphic VCO offers 32 waves that mix between A / B plus drawing your own waves from scratch, morphing and adding ringmod, wavefolder,phase
distortion, wavewrap or FM effects and more. About 2 minutes I started to change a few waves that will be nice in such subtle music, creating in my opinion a great atmosphere. For this I added, of course, one of my favorite stage reverb from Black Hole DSP for the given space."

Erica Synths - Graphic VCO **In Depth Eurorack Demo**

Published on Jun 20, 2018 DivKidVideo

"TIMING INDEX / LINKS BELOW - Here's my in depth run down of the Erica Synths Graphic VCO. It's a eurorack module that packs in a nice interface for controlling wavetables, on board waveform drawing and design, tuneable and shapeable sub generator and output, loads of onboard FX including FM, Ring Modulation, Phase Distortion, Bitcrush / Downsample, Distortion, Wave Folding and Wave Wrapping. There's loads to go at so check out the timing description below and skip around to see the bits of the video you'd like to check out.

TIMING INDEX

00:00 Hello and preview of what's to come

01:23 Verbal feature walk through and look through the settings and menus.

05:58 A selection of patches not from elsewhere in the video. Aiming to fly through a selection of the potential sounds this is capable of.

07:31 AB mode. Crossfading between two waves and waveform morphing. Also looking at some of the available wave banks.

09:14 Wavetable mode. Looking at and morphing through the default wavetable banks.

12:01 Matrix mode. Creating an XY 2 dimensional space to modulate through and operate wavetables.

14:28 AB Wave Design mode. DRAWING WAVEFORMS! Using the on board wave editors to clear, draw new waves, create new waves and also looking at the harmonics editor which is the spectral mode. That view may be familiar to anyone who has used an additive synth before, editing harmonic partials to adjust the waveform. This also looks at loading and saving waves.

19:09 Settings screen. A quick look through what we can set up in the settings including display settings, oscilloscope settings, smooth or discrete waveform morphing (stepped or smooth), key/scale quantizer for the 1v/oct input, external scope to show us the inputs and monitor signals coming into the module, on board tuner / calibration tool and more.

20:46 FX MODES - First looking at what the FX mode is and the oscillator set up we'll be using.

21:17 FX MODE - FM - Looking at Frequency Modulation with the on board modulation oscillator and using the FX inputs to modulate FM index (depth) and ratio (tuning). This looks at FMing a sine wave and also wavetables.

25:34 FX MODE - Ring Modulation - Using the on board modulation oscillator to ring modulate the wavetables.

27:07 FX MODE - Phase Distortion - looking at manual and low level phase shifting through to audio rate phase distortion synthesis, again over wavetables which gets really fun.

28:40 FX MODE - Wave Folding - DC / manual fold depths as well as LFO fold modulation through to audio rate fold modulation. Which gives some great overtones without getting out of hand.

30:19 FX MODE - Wave Wrapping - comparison to wave folding to start with then modulation over the wrap settings from manual to audio rate.

32:53 FX MODE - Bitcrush / Downsampler - also a less pronounced effect than the others at times this changes the whole behaviour and feel of the output making it feel like a more lo-fi digital oscillator. It works really well over slowing modulating waves.

34:40 FX MODE - Distortion - exploring clipping both simple and more complex waves and using clipping as an extra dimension of sound manipulation over the wavetables.

36:52 Sub Generator - looking at output 2 with variable tuning from 0 to -24 semitones, using the 'cent' detune for unison / dual oscillator detune like sounds, mixing in the main output, syncing the sub oscillator and changing from copying the main output waveform through to static waves. We also look at a few basic intervals to create chord tones when mixing the outputs.

41:04 Sub Generator BONUS - patching the sub output and main output to sound like two totally independent musical lines. This is one of my favourite ways to use and patch up sequences and riffs on a modular system.

43:24 Final features / settings / snapshots and more! - Looking at the final few things including snapshots, randomising the whole unit and more.

46:05 Kick drum / percussion synthesis - patching up a kick drum / bass line hybrid sound. You can apply these techniques to other modules too."

Erica Synths Graphic VCO drum mode

Published on May 31, 2019 Molten Music Technology

"A fiddle through the new Drum Mode on the Erica Synths Graphic VCO. I don't claim to have any idea as to what I'm doing - I'm just fiddling. I've got triggers coming from a Varigate 4+ and some modulation coming into the Morph input. I also add some random notes to the volt/oct input."

TEST SERIES Erica Synths Graphic VCO Eurorack Sound Design Experiments

Published on Feb 22, 2019 Outsider Sound Design

"Sound Design Experiments using the Erica Synths Graphic VCO Eurorack module.

The purpose of “TEST SERIES” is to focus on the sound design possibilities of various gear combinations. This series is not musical nor does it serve as an instructional video. It is all about sound potential.
Please consider supporting this channel by purchasing a sample pack or music download from www.outsidersounddesign.com"

Upcoming Modules from Erica Synths

via Erica Synths

"We are finally launching the Graphic VCO which allows you to draw your own waveforms, arrange them in wavetables and wavetable banks, morph between two selected waves and wavetables, alter the resulting wave in advanced ways (FXes) – apply FM, phase distortion, ring modulation, wavefold/wavewrap, bitcrush and modulate the effects with internal synced LFO.

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Synthesis wavetable / Matrix / FX function in Graphic VCO-Erica Synths - this is really awesome

Published on Feb 28, 2019 Dziam Bass

"Hi Guys.
I've been here for a few days with Graphic VCO from Erica Synths and I made a small movie showing the Matrix functions. you can specify the range of morphing waves in it and change them with the X and Y knobs to give an excellent spectrum of motion for our wavetables.
(change the range by increasing this square in each page).
In the second part of the short film I added some effect from the FX section, which is built in here.
in fact, the Graphic VCO has many functions like wavetables A / B, which means you mix yourself between the two selected waves. the option of drawing your own waves from scratch even from a blank form. or drawing already created waves. You can interfere very strongly with the sound. when you draw two of your waves, you can use A / B wavetables and further shape them with FX additions like here RM-ringmod or Phase distortion but also others like bitcrusch or wavefolder or wavewrap and more. also the built-in quantizer gives us surfing on a musical scale, so a single oscillator creates a versatile tool with many sound colors.
synthesize wavetable can now be great with this module and the most important of all its is simple and intuitive to use even without instructions."

Erica Synths Graphic VCO noodle drone

Published on May 16, 2018 Molten Music Technology

"While exploring the Graphic VCO I stumbled upon this extraordinary drone sound coming from the sub. Modulating the wavetable matrix in two directions. I then added some gates to the main output, doubled it up on some drums and added a bit of Black VCO bass for good measure. Just a nice discovery. Check out my Graphic VCO review coming very soon."

Sonic LAB: Erica Synths Graphic VCO

Published on Jul 3, 2018 sonicstate

"Sonicstate's Modular guy Edd takes a look at the new Graphic VCO from Erica Synths. With highly flexible wavetables and user waveforms, sub oscillator and internal modulation options, including FM, you can get a lot out of this one.
priced at 330 Euros"

Erica Synths Graphic VCO - DRUM mode sound demo

Published on Jul 2, 2019 Erica Synths

"Graphic VCO firmware update 1.1 adds drum synthesis mode.
Here is few patches and a jam!

Patches:

02:05 - SPEEDCORE DANDY
02:58 - ARCADE BASS
03:21 - GROWLOER KICK
04:49 - HI-HATTER
05:38 - ACID DRUM
06:59 - RANDOM EVERYTHING
07:46 - FM DRUMMER
08:43 - PHASED DRUM
09:44 - JAM with 3x GVCO's"

Erica Synths Graphic VCO sound demo

Published on Feb 28, 2018 Erica Synths

"The Graphic VCO is a wavetable oscillator which allows you to draw your own waves, arrange them in wavetables and after that apply different effects to them and then modulate them with internal LFO.

In this demo we play around with some of the snapshots.

00:00 - Creating a snapshot

01:32 - FAT FM (Synced FM modulation applied to FM wavetable)

02:35 - WAVE SURFER (Morphing trough all wavetables in Matrix mode, with some Pico DSP reverb on top)

03:53 - CZ-1997 (Applying phase distortion to Square/Saw octave wavetable)

05:44 - JUST WAVETABLES (Switching trough preset wavetables without any FX applied with some Pico DSP reverb on top)

07:11 - BA DUM TSS (Snare drum sound created with FM wavetable modulated by audio rate FM effect)

07:42 - GRRROWLER (Growl wavetable wavefolded and modulated with ramp LFO)

8:18 - PHASED AWAY (Phase modulated classic wavetable)

9:16 - WAVEFOLDER (Wavefolding FM wavetable)

10:30 - BROWSING SNAPSHOTS (Just browsing trough snapshots and modulating parameters with Octasource with some Pico DSP reverb on top)

More: http://www.ericasynths.lv"

NAMM 2018: Erica Synths - Graphic VCO & Drum Sequencer

Published on Jan 25, 2018 sonicstate

See this post for Erica Synths NAMM 2018 line-up. You can find additional posts via the Erica Synths label below.

Erica Synths Black Hole DSP2 (mega modular FX) *In Depth Euroack Demo*

Published on Nov 5, 2018 DivKidVideo

"**TIMING INDEX / SECTIONS BELOW** Here we have the wonderful Black Hole DSP2 from Erica Synths. It's a huge mega uber FX module for the Eurorack format with a tonne of delays, granular FX, reverbs, drone machines, pitch shifters, buffer effects and more! We can go from beautiful warm and lush FX, through more noisy and abstract FX alongside some unique patches/algorithms. We have a CV-able dry/wet blend, crush (with CV) to lower the internal clock rate and slow/pitch down the effects into noise and downsampling effects, there's 3 parameters per effect all with CV inputs and it's true stereo in and out (but mono to stereo is nice to create a stereo image). Throughout the video I show off each effect with a synth sequence (mainly the Erica Synths Graphic VCO [link below]) but there's at least one other sound per effect too with drums or samples (piano, thumb piano, synth stuff, textural beds etc). So grab a drink and sit through it or skip around below as you see fit. Cheers!

Timing index

00:43 Patch previews

02:28 Features, walkthrough

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