DroneClone
Eight-voice amplified string wall, and the centrepiece of the Amplified Futures signal chain. Each polyphonic channel gets its own bank of eight detuned voices, so sixteen channels of V/OCT drive 128 simultaneous oscillators. TENSION and JAWARI shape the harmonic character between glassy and buzzing; CHOKE collapses the whole wall on a gate, and RTN takes a feedback return so the wall can feed itself.
- Add DroneClone. Patch any V/OCT source into V/OCT IN, and OUT to your audio interface.
- Set MASS to 4 and TENSION to 0.3. Leave everything else at zero.
- Hold a note. You hear a four-voice wall.
- Raise JAWARI to 0.15 — a subtle rattle appears on top of the fundamental.
- Press the CHOKE button. The wall collapses. CHOKE AMT sets how far.
V/OCT IN (poly) ──► per-channel × per-voice oscillator bank
├─ FUNDAMENTAL: ±2 octave offset
├─ SPREAD: per-voice detune around the fundamental
├─ MASS: active voice count 1–8
├─ TENSION: odd-harmonic saw content
├─ WEIGHT: sub-octave body mix
├─ SHIMMER: upper partials, 4th–8th
├─ JAWARI: even-harmonic rattle
├─ DRIFT: per-voice slow phase wander
└─ DECAY: voice envelope decay
RTN IN ─────────────────────────────► mixed into the oscillator input
CHOKE BTN / CHOKE IN (gate) ────────► amplitude collapse, depth = CHOKE AMT
sum per channel ──► 1/√8 normalise ──► tanh ──► OUT (poly)
V/OCT IN ────────────────────────────────────────────► V/OCT THRU
| Control | Range | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| FUNDAMENTAL | −2 to +2 Oct | 0 | Pitch offset applied over V/OCT IN |
| SPREAD | 0–1 | 0 | Per-voice detune spread around the fundamental |
| MASS | 1–8 | 4 | Active voices per channel — the density control |
| TENSION | 0–1 | 0 | Odd-harmonic saw content; the edge |
| WEIGHT | 0–1 | 0 | Sub-octave body mix |
| SHIMMER | 0–1 | 0 | Upper partial brightness, 4th–8th harmonics |
| JAWARI | 0–1 | 0 | Even-harmonic rattle — asymmetric buzz, after the sitar bridge |
| DRIFT | 0–1 | 0 | Per-voice slow phase wander rate |
| DECAY | 0–1 | 0.3 | Voice envelope decay; shapes how the wall sustains |
| CHOKE AMT | 0–1 | 0.5 | How far the CHOKE collapse goes |
| CHOKE | momentary | — | Button. Collapses the wall while held |
Every knob except CHOKE has an attenuverter (−1 to +1) and a CV input.
The two harmonic controls are the ones worth learning. TENSION adds odd harmonics, JAWARI even ones, and the pair covers most of the module's range:
| TENSION | JAWARI | Character |
|---|---|---|
| 0.0 | 0.0 | Pure sine wall — glassy, clean |
| 0.4 | 0.0 | Saw-edged, no-wave guitar |
| 0.0 | 0.3 | Sitar-like buzz |
| 0.4 | 0.2 | The canonical Amplified Futures wall |
| 0.8 | 0.5 | Aggressive harmonic chaos |
| Port | Direction | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| V/OCT IN | Input | Polyphonic pitch; sets the channel count |
| RTN | Input | Feedback return, mixed into the oscillator input |
| CHOKE | Input | Gate — 10 V collapses all voices immediately |
| CV ×10 | Input | One per knob, each via its attenuverter |
| OUT | Output | Polyphonic mixed audio, 1/√8 normalised then soft-clipped |
| V/OCT THRU | Output | Pass-through at the same channel count |
No-wave guitar wall. TENSION 0.4, JAWARI 0.2, MASS 4, SHIMMER 0, WEIGHT 0.1, DRIFT 0.15, into Wall-Conductor. The canonical sound.
Sitar swarm. JAWARI 0.6, SHIMMER 0.3, TENSION 0.1, MASS 6, DRIFT 0.3, fed from Harmonic-Pressure at eight partials. Add Drift SMOOTH → JAWARI CV for a buzz that breathes.
Sub wall. WEIGHT 0.5, TENSION 0.1, MASS 3, JAWARI 0, SHIMMER 0, FUNDAMENTAL −1 Oct. Sits beneath a second DroneClone running the mids.
Maximum density. MASS 8, TENSION 0.6, SHIMMER 0.4, JAWARI 0.3, DRIFT 0.4. Full-spectrum maximalism — put Feedback-Governor in the RTN path or it runs away.
| Module | Routing |
|---|---|
| Wall-Conductor | Primary section input |
| Collapse-Saturator | Post-wall saturation and collapse |
| Harmonic-Pressure | V/OCT for harmonic-series chord stacks |
| Drift | DRIFT or JAWARI CV for externally paced wander |
| Send | RTN bus for cross-feedback between two DroneClones |
| Feedback-Governor | OUT → SEND → RTN, a controlled loop |
DroneCore · String-Mass-Core · Send · Feedback-Governor · Wall-Conductor · Playbooks
Full parameter spec: docs/modules/DroneClone.md