Negative Modulation Amounts

[manateemilitia]

This'd be handy for example if you wanted the velocities of two Motifs to modulate opposite of one another or have the ranges of two parts shift to opposing octaves and back to the same octave. Also just for negative unipolar modulation in general.

[Darryl]

At one time we planned to have all of the waveforms bipolar, but in the end we chose to only make the sine wave bipolar and the others unipolar. Because The NDLR is playing all the parts in time, it was difficult to get the bipolar modulators to sync correctly with everything else going on. It sounded wonky so we nixed it. It doesn't help that the MPU doesn't have floating point. If we were to do it again we would definitely have selected a proc with floating point math. Simulating it costs too many cycles.

[manateemilitia]

Super interesting, thanks for the detailed explanation!

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Actually, something that could work similarly might be phase offset/mod delay. It wouldn't create a negative modulation but it'd allow for synchronized modulation applications (setting both motif ranges to the same LFO but one with a phase offset of 1/2 cycle so they modulate "opposite" one another).

[Darryl]

Super interesting, thanks for the detailed explanation!

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Actually, something that could work similarly might be phase offset/mod delay. It wouldn't create a negative modulation but it'd allow for synchronized modulation applications (setting both motif ranges to the same LFO but one with a phase offset of 1/2 cycle so they modulate "opposite" one another).

I really like this idea. Will add it to the list of potential future features.