Bouncing Ball (LFO to ENV-B Cycling)
A bouncing ball patch.
This patch is designed to simulate the physics of a bouncing ball. When you drop a ball, it loses energy with each bounce, causing the time between bounces to decrease. So the goal is to create a ratchet that ramps up its speed.
The basic patch uses a ramp wave LFO to modulate the speed of a cycling envelope.
In this implementation ENV-B is setup as a cycling envelope. The LFO is modulating ENV-B cycling speed/frequency. LFO rate dial controls the overall length of the bouncing. ENV-B Fall/Length slider controls the bounce speed. The LFO is triangular which causes the triggers to speed up and slow down.
Further Reading:
A Brief History of the Bouncing Ball patch
A YouTube video from Make Noise talking about the history of this patch, and how to patch it up on Maths.
How to make a bouncing ball patch on Frap Tools Falistri.
An Instagram video from Intellijel showing a different version of this patch on Cascadia.
The Aphex track. I don’t know how he did it. He might have programmed it manually, or used LFOs from a synth to trigger a sampler?