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by plord » Wed Sep 04, 2019 10:05 am
I have three Wogglebugs. In an all-Wiard 300 system they provide a few awesome but non-obvious functions:
* The LFO out is a handy clock source, it will trigger the envelator just fine. If you run a joystick through an attenuator (or not) and send it to Rate then you have a variable clock.
* For maximum rhythmic chaos, send the smooth out from the left hand side to the Rate on the right hand side; adjust "Smooth Range" knob to taste.
* If you are clocking the system form the WB, or alternately if you feed your other clock source to the clock in on the WB, then you can use the "Step CV" (maybe labeled just "CV now?) as a clocked random accent signal. Feed it to the second FM input on a filter or mix it with your envelope before whacking Borg frequency or use it to nudge the crossfader on the Envelator in a random direction with each step.
* Send *any* output from the WB to the Sequantizer "Sel" input and use the Quantized out; now you can make a super random/aleatoric melody line that is still constrained to 8 notes. Hint: use the Woggle CV out and tweak verrrrrry carefully and you can get the sickest wiggles. Clock the Seq different from the WB for extra weirdness.
* The WB makes an AMAZING hi-hat module. Max out Smooth and Woggle range, Woggle time to minimum, Clock and Cluster to taste. Feed it through a high-pass filter to knock out the occasional whale-call and the result is a clocked insectoid clicky thing, Kraftwerky AF.
* That smooth output, properly attenuated, makes the best possible secondary FM source in a complex osc cross-mod scenario. Just a liiiiiiiiittle bit of randomness to an otherwise stable sequence can really make things come alive.
* Smooth output to WFC wave select. With a smooth bank-- I use the "Morphine" ROM-- it puts the lotion in the waveform. With a more discontinuous bank, glitch city.
Should you start with a WB? Only if you have a Space Echo and want to make film soundtracks for low-fi Alien Invasion flicks. Shoudl you add one to your system before you stop building it? Absolutely. I find myself adding them to every patch.