FRAP TOOLS FUMANA EXPLORATIONS

Published on Jun 1, 2018 Trübüla

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FUMANA EXPLORATION #1 (Spectral Krell #1)

A Classic Todd Barton's Krell Patch. The voice is the Make Noise DPO. The Sputnik Dual Oscillator Generator A in LFO provide the modulation voice. Parameters are modulated by Frap Tools Sapèl with Maths as primary and erratic clock source.

FUMANA EXPLORATION #5 (Kinda Hammond Tone)

A kind Hammond Tone. The 2 voices are the Make Noise DPO and Sputnik Dual Oscillator. Parameters are modulated by Frap Tools Sapèl with Maths as primary and erratic clock source.

FUMANA EXPLORATION #6

Maybe some Pink Floyd have take controls of the Fumana. The 2 voices are the Make Noise DPO and Sputnik Dual Oscillator. Parameters are modulated by Frap Tools Sapèl. The Fumana's VCAs Envelope are primary provided by Pamela's New Workout.

FUMANA EXPLORATION #7 (NO INPUT)

A NO INPUT Patch. Basically the ALL OUT is patched in the IN forcing feedback .... and a lot of reverb!

FUMANA EXPLORATION #8

Only the DPO this time. The pulsating Bass Drum Like sound is the DPO's generator A in LFO mode. Around 1'45" the original DPO sound is coming.

(Waves of) Demented Avengers

All is started with a sample of an old voice mail cassette.

In the beginning the sound are coming from the Frap Tools Fumana in feedback.

The melodic line is played by Frap Tools Sapèl quantize with the Ornament & Crime Quantermain Program on the Doepfer A-110-4

The effects on the Arturia DrumBrute are by Ableton Live 10.

Just That Dawn

First path with the Frap Tools Falistri as Movement Manager :) The Sputnik Dual Oscillator and the Make Noise DPO are spectral processed with the Frap Tools Fumana. Bowed sound by Braids. Random by Frap Tools Sapèl. Reverb and Delay on Ableton (Eventide Black Hole and Ableton Echo)

Superbooth 2017 - Frap Tools Sapel & Fumana

Published on Apr 25, 2017 DivKidVideo

"Simone from Frap Tools gave us a great walk through the Sapel random generator. Lots of random, lots of control and lots of output. The new module is Fumana which sounds great but I thought it was another 16 band fixed filter bank. However, it's a 32 band filter bank as there's a second hidden layer you can input to which allows full 16 band vocoding. Nice!"

via Frap Tools

"fumana / ˈfuma:na / s.f. [dialect of Modena, from fūmus, ‘smoke’] – ‘fog’. Like spectres use to lie into the thick fog (which the Modenese countrisyde is pretty rich of), so many spectral capabilities and functions do within the thick bands of the ‘fumana’.
The FUMANA is an all analog dual filter bank with various control to access dynamically these bands. Each filter bank is composed of an array of 16 independent 48dB/oct bandpass filters. Having two identical filter arrays, allows you to use one of those for spectral analysis (of a modulator signal) and the other for spectral re-synthesis (of the main signal). Each array is sub-grouped in odd and even bands (numbering these increasingly from 1 to 16 from left to right). It is possible to apply different signal to odd and even bands, both for main and/or modulator arrays. This, together with the 16 envelope followers connected to each band of the modulator filterbank, and the 16 VCA connected to each band of the main filterbank, allows the FUMANA to perform a single 16 bands or a dual 8 bands analog spectral transfer.

While the upper section provide access to each main filter’s direct output, the lower section has 4 voltage controllable parameters to manage two independent functions for further spectral editing: tilt and scan.

The tilt, as the name suggest, tilts the spectrum, adding and subtracting amplitude to the 16 bands, emphasizing lower or high bands, and attenuating high or lower bands: this is managed only with the green potentiometer.

The scan, instead, works with three parameters: peak/notch, band selector and width. Like in a parametric equalizer, where is possible to set peak/notch gain, frequency and slope, the FUMANA uses three parameters to set which is the center band to perform this manipulation, then if that band should be emphasized or attenuated, and how this action is extended to nearby bands.

In addition to the 16 bandpass outputs, there are other 4 outputs provided: the all bands output, the all envelope followers output, the odd bands and the even bands output. These two have the options to be inverted in phase with two switches, in order to obtain even more combination when summed together, maybe/also with the “all bands output”, using, for example the 333 module.

Since a spectral transfer tool may be used as a “vocoder-like-effect”, the FUMANA provides an input for an external noise which may be used for unvoiced (fricative/sibilants) sounds as words containing or starting with s, f, z, ch and other fricative sounds ([s] [z] [ʃ] [tʃ] [dʒ] [ts] [ʂ] [f] [v] [ɸ] [θ] [ʒ] etc etc)."

Fumana - Drum Sequencer - BLCK_NOIR - A-106-6 - Shimmer Reverb

Published on Feb 16, 2019 isvisible isinvisible

"My first quick patch with the Frap Tools 'Fumana', a 16 band 48dB resonant bandpass filter. (16 independent filters... mmmm)

I'm just scanning the individual harmonic bands using the Klee Sequencer, and the Fumana is being fed the saw out from the AFG, which is being sequenced by the Turing Machine to feed some randomness to the Fumana's harmonics.
The ouputs from Fumana are going through a Modcan 'Dual Delay' and a ZVEX 'Instant Lo-Fi Junky'.

The chordy pad type sound is 3 Doepfer 'A-110' oscillators being fed voltages from the Toppobrillo 'Quantimator's' 3 outputs, a bit of movement courtesy of a Cynthia 'Saw Animator and an external Oakley Sound Sytems 'Arp Omni Ensemble' then mixed, filtered through 2 Doepfer A-106-6's and passed through the ZDSP with the 'Shimmer' card installed.

The Erica Synths 'Drum Sequencer' is controling most events, including simple drum patterns into the Endorphin.es 'BLCK_NOIR' which has it's on-board sample and hold controlling the filter.

All in all, a simple patch, but I quite like it, and the Fumana is a killer module that's going to get a lot of use."

Frap Tools - Fumana - Parametric Scanning

Published on Feb 16, 2018 DivKidVideo

1. Frap Tools - Fumana - Parametric Scanning

"After my first patch video here's the next in the #FumanaFridays series of videos with the Frap Tools Fumana. Here I go in depth with the parametric scanning options with single inputs, stereo inputs (going left to odd band input and right to even band input), mono outputs (all out), stereo outputs (not really stereo but hard panning the odd and even band outputs), modulating amplification or attenuation of one of several bands depending on the frequency and Q/width settings. It's a gorgeously smooth and buttery sounding unit that makes complex tonal shifts and sounds really easy."

2. Frap Tools - Fumana *First Patch*

"God this Fumana is gorgeous! It's several bands of fixed filter banks (band pass filters) that isolate the sound and let you pan, scan, morph and tilt your way around the filters beautifully. It's got a great set of fixed frequencies that really make basic waves speak very vocal and formant like. Enjoy my literal first patch with just an AJH Synth MiniMod VCO saw wave into it and some LFOs modulate through the bands. Full demo in the near future. Cheers!"

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CUNSA v/s FUMANA: The same patch on two different filters!

video upload by Frap Tools

"A few years ago we animated a bass line through Fumana for a short video. It was a cool experiment, so we decided to do a step-by-step guide. And then we thought that it would be fun to replicate the same patch concept on Cunsa, a totally different filter that shares with Fumana basically just the size. Which one do you prefer, if any?"

00:00 Introduction
00:35 Animate a bass line with FUMANA
04:50 Animate a bass line with CUNSA

Klang Stadt - Fumana - Magneto & More Eurorack

Published on Apr 9, 2020 isvisible isinvisible

"A drone from the Frequency Central 'Klang Stadt' filtered through the Frap Tools 'Fumana', which is having a few frequencies modulated by the Modcan 'Quad LFO' and the two LFO's in S&H mode from the Erica Synths 'Drum Sequencer'.

The ODD and EVEN outs from the 'Fumana' are feeding the Strymon 'Magneto'.

The ALL output from the 'Fumana' is feeding the Q-Bit 'Prism'.

An arpeggio from the Synthesis Technology E350 'Morphing Terrarium' fed through the Modcan 'Dual Delay' and the Doepfer 'A-101-3 Vactoral Phaser'.

Bass drum is the Mutable Instrument 'Peaks'. Snare is the Dave Smith 'DSM03 Feedback'. Added percussion is the Mutable 'Braids' in Cymbal mode feeding the Mutable 'Elements'.

Big low pad sound is the Sum output from the WMD 'PDO', the sub and saw out from the Livewire 'AFG' mixed then thrown through the ZVEX 'Instant Lo-Fi Junky' and a Tiptop 'Z-DSP' with the 'Halls of Valhalla' card installed."

Frap Tools Fumana Part 2: Impose (Eurorack modular synth filter, spectral transfer, vocoder)

video upload by Cylob Sonic Research

"Exploring direct CV control of the Fumana's 16 bands.

00:00 Intro
00:03 Explanation
00:13 Adjusting bands
01:56 Storing and recalling band level configurations
03:08 Jam 1
07:10 Jam 2
09:40 Five Alive

Details of the album 'I Will Cross Any Bridge' can be found at https://kud.li/csr015."

Frap Tools Fumana Part 1: Center & Width (Eurorack modular synth filter, spectral transfer, vocoder)
video upload by Cylob Sonic Research

"Exploring the Center and Width controls of the Frap Tools Fumana eurorack filter module.

00:00 Intro
00:03 Center and Width knob controls
01:23 Modulating Center with sine LFO
02:47 Modulating Width with sine LFO
04:19 Modulating with saw LFO
05:37 Modulating with Zig Zag wave LFO
06:45 Modulating Center with multi stage envelope
07:05 Modulating Width with multi stage envelope
08:31 Adding drums
10:39 Drums and multi stage envelopes try two
13:45 Ambi interlude
14:08 Ambi track jam with stereo panned bands

Note to self: tuning is bellingwolde @ 54"

Indigo Dusk

Published on Jan 12, 2019 voltlife

"An ambient exploration, mostly self-running, that uses a few tricks to get more interest out of limited sequencing..

Bass swells: AFG alien saws through STG Sea Devils Filter.

HIgh fizzy stereo sweeps: AFG animated pulses through Belgrad in High/Notch mode with Span modulated by a VCLFO. Stereo sweep by WMD Performance Mixer.

Vocoder choir: Fumana, using random speech samples from Radio Music as modulator; carrier is PPG-like wavetables from E352 in Cloud+Morph mode, run through clouds for smearing into quasi-chords. The EF all out from Fumana modulates the speed of an LFO that drives the centre frequency of Fumana, for varying phaser-like sweeps.

Occasional digital synth blips: the other E352 output through Optomix, opened by a Descent envelope. Sequenced by a Moskwa, which could get boring quickly, but Moskwa's clock is driven by a Doepfer A160-5 for varying clock speeds, and the Descent envelopes are triggered by shifting Euclidean rhythms.

Bell/pluck riff: Rings (what else?!) sequenced by Verbos Voltage Multistage through a VCA, with attenuation changing randomly each bar for variety. To make Rings sound marginally less Rings-y, I modulate its frequency with bandpass-filtered noise at varying frequencies, which gives a slightly noisy or warbly edge to the sound. Brightness and Damping modulated every bar for further variation.

Main modulation sources: Doepfer A149-1/2, A143-4, Erica Black Octasource, Triple Sloth.

Mixing and fx: everything into WMD Performance Mixer, with Erebe Verb on Aux 1 and a mix of Demora into Erbe Verb and plain Demora on Aux 2. Erbe Verb's Decay and Demora's feedback are modulated by random gates from A149-2. I use an L-1 Stereo Microcompressor in the final Send/Return, mainly as a limiter to reign in the occasional peak, but I think I'm still getting a bit of clipping, so I need to work on the makeup gain."

Frap Tools - Fumana - Vocoding with Drums, Vocals & Polyphonic Modular

Published on May 25, 2018 DivKidVideo

"Here's more action with the Frap Tools Fumana for my #FumanaFridays series of videos looking at this big beautiful beast of a module. Here we're vocoding stacked oscillators and polyphonic modular against drums and vocals using Fumana for the vocoding but also using the analysis to layer up extra in sync / in time drums and extra related modulation."

Fumana Vocoder

Published on Jul 12, 2018 Dimitrios Sismanis

Frap Tools Fumana Vocoder.

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NAMM 2018 Frap Tools Fumana Filter Bank

Published on Jan 25, 2018 sonicstate

"Very flexible 16 fixed filter bank module from Frap Tools - the Fumana has a huge number of applications for tuned filtering."

See this post for additional details on the Frap Tools Fumana.

A patch inspired by sympathetic strings with FUMANA

video upload by Frap Tools

"This FUMANA patch draws inspiration straight from sympathetic strings, a device that can be found on many instruments like the European nyckelharpa or the Indian sitar.

Does it sound like a nyckelharpa or a sitar? Absolutely not! Is it nice though? Well... you decide.

More about OVERTONES: [3rd video here]

00:00 Intro: what are sympathetic strings
02:09 Patch overview and FUMANA setup
04:13 Using the melody to control the feedback bands
05:12 Changing the feedback phase
05:58 Adding more articulation
08:37 Using another waveform to ring more bands
09:09 Final result: Playing with the envelope follower's decay to add more resonance
10:10 Outro"

Frap Tools - Fumana - Further LPG/LPF Explorations

Published on Mar 9, 2018 DivKidVideo

"In my second video with Fumana for the #FumanaFridays series YouTube channel 'Voltlife' commented with another tip and expansion on the LPF/LPG style ideas you can apply to Fumana. Frap Tools did an amazing job of this, visually, functionally and most importantly sonically. Check out a live chat with Simone and Antonio discussing the design with me and Chris Meyer" [posted here]

Crucible Fumana S1 | Eurorack livejam

Published on Jun 5, 2019 Bastian Götz

"WMD Crucible Input-Test:

Cwejman S1 MK2 into Frap Tools Fumana Filterbank into Cwejman QMMF-4.

From 16 seconds onwards I feed different filterbands from the Fumana into the Crucible input generating this nice dirty layer on top of the S1. I didn't use the Trigger inputs.

Sequencing is done by Make Noise Rene (clocksignals from synced LFOs (XAOC Batumi).

The noise is generated by the ZVEX Modular Instant Lo-Fi Junky."

Frap Tools Fumana Part 4: Masking [with the Cheetah MS6]

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"Turning the bands of the Fumana on and off with MIDI notes.

00:00 Intro
00:03 Cheetah MS-6, setting pre-mask band levels
00:42 Activate masking
01:49 Mask sequencing, various modes
04:08 Envelope
06:25 Delay
07:57 Asjusting MS6 patch
09:55 A bit more tweaking

Original photo of mask by Ibolya Toldi @ pexels."

You can find additional posts in this series here.

Frap Tools Fumana Part 5: Take It Slow

video upload by Cylob Sonic Research

"Recording the output of the envelope followers analysing speech, then playing this back at a much slower rate modulating a three tone drone, then drenching that in reverb.
00:00 Intro
00:03 Source material
00:25 Recording the band analysis output
00:40 Playback
01:36 Adding reverb
07:32 Freezing playback
09:29 Reversing playback direction
20:45 Changing reverb algorithm

Eurorack modules featured: Frap Tools Fumana, Intellijel Dixie, Cre8 Audio Capt'n BIG-O, Tiptop Audio Z3000 mk.2, Doepfer A-138b mixer. Reverb: Valhalla VintageVerb. CV Control: Expert Sleepers ES3 and ES6 controlled by a custom SuperCollider patch.

Original photo of snail by invisiblepower @ pexels"

Additional posts

Wiggly LFOs on the BRENSO (credit: Make Noise)

video upload by Frap Tools

"When we saw this video on Make Noise's channel, we thought it was a great patch! [posted here]

So we wanted to recreate it on the BRENSO oscillator and use this technique in a different context. Basically, we're using an offset to throw the yellow oscillator at sub-audio rate and use the timbre modulation section to create some weird-shaped LFOs. We further expanded it through FUMANA, USTA, and FALISTRI.

Thanks again Walker and @MAKEN0ISEMUSIC for the inspiring patch!

00:00 Introduction
00:57 BRENSO yellow LFO
04:56 Adding a FUMANA Feedback
06:47 Clocking the USTA sequencer
10:00 Introducing a clock divider
12:20 Adding a second melody"

BRENSO and beyond (with some FUMANA feedback)

video upload by Frap Tools

"Animating BRENSO's final output through FUMANA's bands and some feedback!"

Frap Tools Fumana Part 3: I Achieve Full Freeze (Vocoder, eurorack modular, spectral transfer)

video upload by Cylob Sonic Research

All parts here

"Using the Frap Tools Fumana as a vocoder. Recording and playing back phonemes with a custom SuperCollider patch."

00:00 Intro
00:03 Sherlock
00:36 Vocoder
04:00 Lag and Threshold
06:03 Sibilant noise
07:35 Reorder bands
08:19 Phoneme sampling and band freezing
10:02 Saved phonemes
10:35 Phoneme sequencing
11:45 Song: I Achieve Full Freeze
14:36 Fatalist

VOLTLIFE: Fumana vocoding...and beyond

Published on Feb 19, 2018 voltlife

"A demonstration of Frap Tools’ Fumana spectral editor working as a 16-band vocoder, then taking it to extremes. The carrier is a mix of Rubicon saw & PWM with a Dixie II saw a fifth above."