I ran across some stuff on the internet about 528 Hz and other solfeggio tones.\u00a0 Is it just New Age mumbo-jumbo? Who knows?\u00a0 I made a patch using one MOTM-300 VCO and the Teezer VCO both set close to 528 Hz.\u00a0 I let them be a little off.\u00a0 Nothing is perfect, so why try to be?\u00a0 I ran the sawtooth outputs of each VCO through a channel of the Cynthia Waveform Animator and then through a half of my dual MOTM-480 VCF.\u00a0 I also mixed pulse waves from each VCO into each respective MOTM-480 channel.\u00a0 (I got a pulse wave from the Teezer using my Mixer-Comparator.)\u00a0 I put very slow sine wave LFOs on each 480 FM.\u00a0 Then I added a bass voice by dividing the Teezer output by 16 with the MOTM-730 pulse divider to get a 33 Hz square wave.\u00a0 This was run through a MOTM-440 VCF, which had another very slow LFO on its FM.\u00a0 That was the basic patch.<\/p>\n
A few days later I was working on a ring modulation patch for the Mattson VCA.\u00a0 For that I used a second MOTM-300 VCO and the Morphing Terrarium VCO.\u00a0 I utilized the J. Haible Trapezoid VCA to envelope the MT sine wave going into the Mod input of the VCA.\u00a0 A MOTM-800 drove the CV input of the VCA.\u00a0\u00a0 I fiddled with the frequency pots of the oscillators to get a nice bell tone.<\/p>\n
Now it gets eerie.\u00a0 Both patches were running.\u00a0 I had the 528 Hz experiment turned off in the mix.\u00a0 I just thought, hey, why not mix the two.\u00a0 Probably be very dissonant.\u00a0 No!\u00a0 It was very harmonious!\u00a0 I checked the frequencies and without intending to I had set the MOTM-300 to 262 Hz (about 528\/2) and the M.T. to 528!\u00a0 How did that happen?\u00a0 Must be the mysteries of the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n