Recipes and Ideas¶

Autopanner¶

Take the main outputs from G8. If possible, mix the stereo outputs down to mono (Your DAW probably has a utility for doing this.)
Pan that track towards one channel.
Take the reject outputs, mix them down, and pan them towards the opposite channel.
For Transient-based Autopanning, use the “Regular Gating” mode and set the Threshold to a useful value. Your Attack, Release, and Hold times will control how quickly the pan occurs after the threshold is crossed.
For Regular Autopanning, use the “Cycle” mode and set the Threshold to its minimum value. Again, the Attack, Release, and Hold times will control the panning envelope.
For either above mode, the Attack and Release times give you separate control over how quickly the audio pans to one channel and how quickly it pans back. It is a rather dynamic effect!

Set G8’s behavior to “Cycle” (instead of “One-Shot” or “Regular Gating”).
Set the Threshold to its minimum value. You should hear a dramatic tremolo effect.
For a softer tremolo effect, adjust the “Reduction” value.
Attack, Release, and Hold settings will affect the tremolo’s speed.

Set up the Tremolo patch described above.
Set the Attack, Release, and Hold settings to extremely low values. When you can no longer hear the individual cycles, you have achieved AM Synthesis.
To space the grains out more, increase the “Delay” setting.

G8 does not need to receive audio for this effect to work.
Set the threshold to its minimum setting.
Change G8’s behavior mode to “Cycle”. The gate meter should be jumping up and down.
Connect G8’s MIDI output to an instrument that you would like to trigger (For more detailed instructions, please see the section on “Using G8 In Your Host”).
You should now hear the instrument triggering at a regular rate. For a more rapid bounce, decrease the Attack, Hold, and Release times.
Once you have a bounce setting that you like, increase/decrease the Delay parameter.

Set G8’s behavior to “One-Shot”.
Run a synthesizer into G8. A great starting patch is a simple mix of a sine tone and white noise.
Set G8’s Attack time to about 10 ms. Set the Hold to 0 ms and the Release to around 100.
Set G8’s Threshold to an appropriate setting.
Each time you play a note on the synth, G8 will apply its envelope. Since G8 is capable of creating extremely short envelope segments, it makes a great alternative to some synths’ less flexible built-in envelope generators.
For more fun, set G8’s behavior to “Cycle” for repeated percussion.