Bazille - Subtractive Signal Flow
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Subtractive synthesis isn’t so much a category of synthesizer as it is a routing (signal flow) scheme. This is a signal flow that you can take advantage of in all sorts of different synthesis methods (something we've done in previous sections. Subtractive synthesis is when you generate a rich/dense sound and use a filter to shape/sculpt the sound further. Like a block of marble being chipped back. A sound could go from dull to bright or bright to dull. The oscillator goes into the filter and the output of the filter goes into the amplifier. Obviously with modular synthesizers we can patch that sort of thing up no problem. In this lesson we make a patch in Bazille that follows a subtractive signal flow.