Bastl have just released the first major firmware upgrade for their digital VCO: Pizza.
The Pizza from Bastl is a flexible and cool sounding digital VCO based around FM (phase modulation) with variable wave shapes, ring modulation and wave folding. Beneath its simple interface, it is a module that urges you to approach it from many different angles to explore its surprising depth.
In this video I have attempted to create a comprehensive video manual, followed by a selection of example patches, showing the module in a wide variety of guises.
https://bastl-instruments.com/eurorack/modules/pizza
Transparency notice: This module was provided to me by Bastl for free. They have not asked for and have not been given any editorial oversight for this video and I have not been otherwise paid for making this video.
Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:42 - Teaser of sounds to come
00:03:23 - Disclaimer
00:04:19 - The FM Core
00:08:37 - The Octave Oscillator
00:11:20 - Introducing Detune
00:12:35 - Linear vs. Exponential Detune
00:15:16 - Introducing the Ratio Oscillator
00:16:17 - How custom ratios work (the theory)
00:25:31 - How custom ratios work (the practice)
00:36:45 - Pitch knob functions (octave, detune, fine tune and coarse tune - new in v1.1)
00:42:29 - The outputs (Main, Octave, Pulse and Ratio - new in v1.1)
00:44:33 - Switching the Pulse output to Ratio mode
00:46:34 - Introducing Shape
00:46:54 - Shape modes: Wave
00:53:33 - Shape modes: Fold
00:55:59 - Shape modes: Ring
01:00:23 - Introducing Ctrl
01:01:58 - Ctrl: Octave
01:03:10 - Ctrl: Detune
01:03:54 - Ctrl: Exponential FM
01:05:32 - Ctrl: Linear FM
01:08:53 - Ctrl: Ratio Oscillator Select
01:10:15 - Ctrl: Ratio Oscillator Exponential FM
01:11:47 - Ctrl: Octave Oscillator Select
01:12:46 - Ctrl: Octave Exponential FM
01:13:24 - Ctrl: Second FM Index (series)
01:15:16 - Ctrl: Second FM Index (parallel - 3-op mode, new in v1.1)
01:17:48 - Ctrl: Shape (second Wave, Fold, Ring control)
01:19:11 - Ctrl: Inverting VCA
01:20:44 - Ctrl: Envelope + VCA (full-voice mode, new in v1.1)
01:24:41 - Sync input: “classic sync sounds”
01:27:16 - Sync input: phase reset for clean attacks
01:29:34 - Ext input
01:34:07 - V/Oct input: quantized and unquantized
01:36:16 - Example patch: Standalone FM Bass using Envelope Mode
01:41:18 - Example patch: Pizza as a Virtual Analogue VCO
01:46:23 - Example patch: Digital West-Coast Synth
01:50:54 - Example patch: Kick, Bass, Percussion (at once)
01:55:46 - Example patch: Processing a Drum Break Through Pizza
02:02:02 - Example patch: Pizza as an LFO
02:11:07 - Example patch: Sequencing an External Input
02:15:30 - Example patch: Lovely Ambient Sines
02:20:28 - Example patch: FM Drone
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