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Cable splitting

The essential drone

1 The start of a very basic drone begins with the sound source. We really like the Erica Synths black VCO 2, which sounds fantastic. We use the sine, saw and PWM outputs together, with a couple of free running LFOs from Ochd modulating the waveshape and pulse width.

2 These signals are sent to a quad VCA, with the PWM output passing through a modulated filter on the way for added animation, also controlled by an LFO. The filter is set to low pass, with the cutoff CV control

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