{"id":2355,"date":"2024-09-21T09:29:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T09:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/?page_id=2355"},"modified":"2024-09-21T09:29:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T09:29:14","slug":"u-he-bazille-revisited-%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/u-he-bazille-revisited-%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb%f0%9f%a7%bb\/","title":{"rendered":"U-He Bazille (revisited) \ud83e\uddfb\ud83e\uddfb\ud83e\uddfb\ud83e\uddfb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019m sorry but every time I hear Bazille<\/em> I see this. It has no relevance and should not appear in a review but damn it, that\u2019s just the way it happens. (Of course in German it would sound more like Bat Zilla<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I have bad vibes about modular synthesisers. But<\/strong> it’s been pointed out that Bazille<\/em> looks a lot like the old Roland System 100m which is not too messy. Urgh<\/em>, it has droopy software patch cables. But<\/strong> then (I say to myself) there’s not too many of them, so it’s a bit like Reason<\/em><\/a>. That’s OK. Bazille<\/em> is a semi-patchable machine a bit like the Korg MS20<\/a> – it’s quick to get a good sound without too much clown wig<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having bought this a while ago in a sale it’s taken me quite a bit of time to get driving it properly. I’ve learned features I hadn’t reviewed in detail – and so need to update the review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The oscillators are complex<\/em>. Each starts with a sinewave which passes though Phase Distortion<\/strong> by one of eight selected waveforms<\/strong> – e.g. choose a PD saw wave and increase the PD’s level to morph the sinewave into a saw. Using the more complex PD shapes provides a wide range of tones. The PD can actually have two parts – you can bend the sine with one PD shape at the front and one at the end to apply 64 different Phase Distortion forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next there is a switch to replace the original sine (named as ‘cosine’) with a more complex wave. Two are available as bar graphs – in which you can hand draw a waveform or pull down a menu to create familiar shapes. An exotic choice is to draw a spectral chart and covert that into a waveform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the signal travels to Fractalise<\/strong> which creates many smaller replicas of the waveform. The pitch goes up as we keep subdividing the wave, and it’s comparable to the phase screech on an analogue synthesiser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So your oscillator waveform goes through quite a lot of bending before<\/em> it gets to any other module. It may already be a wall of white noise from too much mucking around. You can certainly just run cables from oscillator to oscillator (on the principle of “Any Cable Anywhere”) – Bazille<\/em> doesn’t mind at all – but I feel you will get more out of Bazille<\/em> by mastering this oscillator section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suppose different users can try many pathways to get results. You could keep each oscillator as a sine and then patch cable them into simple FM algorithms. You could carefully draw a spectral image and just pass that over to the filters for a bit of polish. You could always blast the hell out of it and see what grunge you get. There’s a wide (overwhelming?) variety of technique here – but if dedicated to a classic 70’s Moog way of working Bazille<\/em> might not be your first choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the effects. Perhaps because this is supposed to be an old modular synthesiser you are given 1970’s style effects. Like a spring reverb. But as you have very recent digital processing going on with the oscillators (admit it – spectral waveforms are not 1970s anything) there’s no good reason for this nostalgia bollocks. Just use external effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final word – there’s a bunch of settings to lower the quality so that your 2015 computer is not overloaded. You may<\/em> have a 2015 computer… but actually I bet you haven’t. Turn all that off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m sorry but every time I hear Bazille I see this. It has no relevance and should not appear in a review but damn it, that\u2019s just the way it happens. (Of course in German it would sound more like Bat Zilla.) I have bad vibes about modular synthesisers. But it’s been pointed out that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[11,8,13,4],"class_list":["post-2355","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-fm","tag-modular","tag-spectral","tag-virtual-analogue"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilamox.com\/mancave21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}