Cyclebox Fux Pad
An Intellijel/Cylonix Cyclebox sampled in four velocity layers.
ByBryan Rheude
The story
The Intellijel/Cylonix Cyclebox is one of my favorite eurorack modules. It’s a wavetable oscillator that definitely was not held by it’s mommy. It’s great for sound design and rhythmic noise pads, but it’s also quite musical. I thought it would be a great subject to try out with the Kontakt sampling method you all are using for the Piano Book project. Four layers–from warm and chill to Moog-through-a-Marshall-amp–are selected via velocity.
Reviews
Fantastic
I loved the sound. I don't know what to say but I Am trying to fill the character count
Touchy Little Synth
This is a fun sound. It's character changes wildly from a somewhat muted square wave up through four different velocity layers to a mangled, distorted saw wave. There are some nice overlaps between the velocity zones which helps to smooth things out, but the jumps between the different sounds are still pretty pronounced. I found that decreasing the effect of velocity on the filter cutoff helped to smooth this out and increased playability. The lowest velocity layer runs only 0-50, and I found that extending the velocity ranges of the samples in the lowest velocity ranges upward and compressing the velocity ranges of the samples at the top yielded a much more controllable and playable instrument. It might just be my playing style, though. Regardless of all of that, this is a fun, musical, and playable instrument! Super job!
Extreme variation in synthy wonder
Interesting synthy number with extreme variation across its velocity layers. This makes the playability a little difficult but with a step input approach the velocities could be easily tamed and some rather cool textures created from this. I like...