We’ve covered a lot of Confundo Funkidos’s functionality in percussive patches, but it also shines when used to control and remix melodic sequences, too. Today, we’ll show a few fun ways to integrate it with pitch sequencers and tonal sounds. 

Starting simple

The easiest way to integrate Confundo Funkidos is just by patching the gate output of a melodic sequencer to the trigger inputs of a channel of Confundo Funkidos, and its outputs to your melodic voices. Confundo always outputs triggers from its main outputs, so this will work best with plucky voices like Debel Iteritas Alia or Manis Iteritas. 

Once patched in, you can use the channel’s Mute switch to bring your voice in and out of the patch, and you can modify the resulting trigger pattern with BURN, too. If you’re using a sequencer with multiple gate outs, you can patch one to each side, and use the XFADE on Confundo to mix between them. 

Getting funki

One of my favorite ways to use trigger modifiers is by building them into my own sequencer patch. In my system, I like to create rhythms from generators like Numeric Repetitor, then mult the rhythm to the trigger input of a voice and the clock input of a pitch sequencer like Mimetic Digitalis. Each time a trigger is output, the voice is triggered and the sequencer advances to a new CV. 

This becomes even more fun with additional patches: clocking multiple navigation inputs on Mimetic with different outputs from Confundo Funkidos is a great way to create unconventional patterns. 

Accents? Accents

The Accent outputs on Confundo Funkidos are particularly useful in a melodic context. The simplest way to use them is to create a timbral emphasis on certain notes: patch the accent through an attenuator and to a filter or wavefolder CV input and accented notes will be brighter. Use the attenuator to dial in the accent amount, and you’re good to go.

Accent gates can be used for less conventional control, too. For example, if you read our post about bassline sequencing with Gamut Repetitor, you may remember that we used a gate output to modulate a voltage-controlled slew to create portamento on certain notes. The same option is available here: use the Accent out of a Confundo channel to control a gated slew or the rise/fall time of a slew limiter like Maths, and run your pitch sequence through the slew limiter. Notes where the accent output is high will have some slide. 

We can also turn things around: if you have a gate-controlled envelope generator, like an ADSR, you could instead use the accent output to create a new gate sequence based off of your trigger pattern. This is a fun way to generatively produce new gate sequences that are related but different from your input rhythm. 

All the performability, all the fun 

In a lot of my patches, I end up using three percussive voices and a single melodic voice for some minimal techno action. This ends up being perfect: I can control all four of my voices with Confundo Funkidos and crossfade between patterns, mute different voices, and create fills and randomness with the Burn parameters. Especially when using timbrally complex voices like a few Alias or an LIP, four voices is more than enough to create a big-sounding patch, and Confundo Funkidos is the perfect performance addition to tie everything together.