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| > Tassman Basics 101In this short tutorial, we'll be creating a very simple acoustic beam construction, but even with only a few modules we can create an instrument with incredible tonal possibilities. First, we strike a beam with a mallet. You can see the mallet module at the left and the beam at the right.The trig output of the mallet is connected to the force input of the beam. We can see and adjust the parameters of any module . Here, we see the beam parameters.  - We then add a DAC in order to hear the sound. We also add a constant module in the damper input of the beam so the beam will resonate freely.  We can then launch the player and play the beam with the trig button on the mallet. Even with this basic configuration,we can hear a very rich sound.  We will now add a keyboard in order to play the beam. We chose a polyvkeyboard which is polyphonic and also transmits velocity. We also have to add a polymixer module to enclose the modules that will be polyphonic. The DAC for instance does not need to be polyphonic.  We can now play the beam with the keyboard. Note that we only have two modules that provides the sound (the mallet and the beam). We can change the parameters of the modules in real time (while playing) to create different sound qualities:
We can now add effects to our sound. We will add a stereo reverb effect. For that, we choose two reverb modules with slightly different reflection time. We will also add a subpatch for the output module. A subpatch is a group of modules connected together that you can reuse in other patches. When you double click on a subpatch, you can see which modules are in it. Our output subpatch is made with two volumes, a recorder (to record WAV files), two level meters and a stereo DAC. 
 Now we can get down to the real business of playing music !!! |
