what?

• Oilcan is a monophonic digital-style percussion voice. At its core, Oilcan is two sine waves capable of basic FM synthesis. These operators are wavefolded, then mixed into two stages of clipping.
• Oilcan is arranged in timbres. You can think of each timbre as its own drum. Each time Oilcan triggers, it picks a timbre based on the note you’re sending.
• You can find all of Oilcan’s params in the OILCAN > param group.

  editing timbres

• Change SELECTED TIMBRE to edit different timbres. The selected timbre’s params will populate below.
• Below the timbre params is the MACROS section. These params non-destructively multiply timbre params as they’re played, acting as performance controls.
• Below MACROS, you can find trigger params for temp-saving and temp-loading timbres or macro settings. This can be used as a performance control, or to copy timbres to new slots.
• Below temp controls is the save system. Everything is saved with your psets - this is for sharing sounds with other norns.

signal flow

params overview

| param name | description | |-|-| | FREQ | Base frequency | SWEEP TIME | Percentage of release time spent sweeping towards base frequency | SWEEP INDEX | Depth of pitch sweep | ATTACK | Rise time. Affects all envelopes. | RELEASE | Fall time to silence. All other envelopes use this time as a reference - changing this param affects all envelopes. | MODULATOR RELEASE | Percentage of release time spent releasing the modulation operator to silence. | MODULATOR LEVEL | Multiplier for the modulator envelope height. | MODULATOR RATIO | Multiplier for the modulator’s frequency relative to base frequency. | FEEDBACK | Modulator FM feedback. 0 is a sine wave, 10 is tuned noise. | FOLD | Amount of wavefolding applied to operators at start of signal chain | HEADROOM | Amount of headroom before the signal hard-clips. Lowering HEADROOM applies a filthy compression effect. | GAIN | Signal multiplier into a soft-clipping waveshaper. | ROUTING | Linearly pan the modulator between 0 (carrier modulation only) and 1 (mix with carrier for output) | LEVEL | Clean level control.