Hi there – anyone have tips for creating longer tails on plucked sounds? I’m using the noise generator with 0 attack and a short delay, no sustain or release. In the resonator I have both filters set to 3 o’clock and the feedback just shy of 12 o’clock.
This provides maybe a second of tail. Not bad but I’d like something longer and more resonant.
I tried using a single shot sine wave to modulate the feedback amount, but that results in a solid tone of feedback which doesn’t sound like a string anymore.
One suggestion for the Morphor team: it would be nice if the feedback level had a fine grain control. The user could press some button which would shift the feedback knob into fine grain control. This might allow for longer tails without going into self-oscillation. Maybe that could happen in a firmer update.
I found a nice work around for this. I set the feedback to just below self-oscillation. Then, I set the mod wheel to modulate feedback but only slightly. This now gives me fine grain feedback control! Using a mod lane on my oxi one mk2, I can set the mode lane to a narrow range (giving even further precision control) and there you go! Using this approach, I was able to get tails lasting up to 20 seconds which is exactly what I wanted. It sounds amazing btw, even better than patching a delat into the feedback loop.
Happy to hear you found what you were looking for, just by exploring. Positive feedback loops are hard to tame and there is a fine line between a long ‘release time’ and self-oscillation. The longest, cleanest plucks, without work-arounds can be done with the feedback filter fully open and feedback around 12 o’ clock.
Your modwheel trick adds resolution to the feedback control. Neat! Thanks for leaving this here for other users to discover!