Author: Avareth Taika

  This article is both an explanation and a hope for the future of granular synthesis. I put a big ol’ line between the two topics, like this one: Granular synthesis. Just the term alone conjures up a sense of intrigue, as if hinting at a hidden world of sonic wizardry waiting to be unlocked.…

  I got an email from George in Greece asking not how to make a sound, which I get asked a lot, but instead asked about advanced techniques of replicating real sounds with synths. They figured that’s a complex task, and that there might be a path to start on that gives you direction to…

  What’s up world!? Let’s just make this short and sweet: AM = amplitude modulation, or modulating how loud something is FM = frequency modulation, or modulating how often something is PM = phase modulation, or modulating when something is Alright cool that’s it be sure to smash that like button, desaturate that subscribe button,…

  Thanks to a friend getting a Behringer Model D (Boog from here on out), based on the modern Moog Minimoog, y’all now have this post. Enjoy 🙂 Oh and I did try to utilise ChatGPT for this post, but it’s really bad at technical things like synth patches. I stole a few patch names…

This post is inspired by a conversation I had on Discord recently regarding my upcoming phase modulator eurorack module and how it works. In sound design and especially synthesis, phase is a fundamental concept that is essential for understanding and creating unique effects. The term “phase” refers to where a sound exists in a cycle,…

  This blog mostly talks about various tools and how to use them, as well as the occasional “how do I make this” post. Not once have I mentioned how I got into this career, or how you can, so I figure I’ll use this month’s post to do that! Next month will likely be…

  Every year I toy with the idea of setting reasonable goals for the coming year, aka resolutions. For many people, that’s go to the gym every day (and end up just giving $120 to planet fitness for 5 days of use), or eat better (by getting a blue apron or hello fresh subscription then…

In the world of Eurorack, there’s a lot of modules everyone knows: Maths, Plaits, Stages, Rings, Clouds, et cetera. One such module is BIA, or Basimilus Iteritas Alter, from Noise Engineering. I’ve used that module precisely twice for about 20 minutes total. However, its older sibling, Basimilus Iteritas, has been in my rack for quite…

  For the last 26 weeks I’ve maintained a series on the Wiggle Room discord server where every week I post a new synthesis technique. There have been several miniseries within the series of posts, and while new ones aren’t stopping, I figured it’d be useful to archive them all in one place. What better…

  As much as I like to use and write about synthesis, I must admit simply sampling sounds is highly effective and in many ways more efficient. In my daily work as a film sound designer, I use sample libraries and samples of sounds I’ve previously made almost as often as my synthesizers to create…