Converting Formula Controller Output into Audio | FL Studio Sound Design

In this video I make single cycle waveform samples for sound design using Formula Controller and Voltage Controller. It's essentially converting shapes created with math formulas into audio. I'll go over the technique and some math tips for writing formulas. There are other ways of making single cycle wave forms but if you like math this might be a cool thing to try, I definitely got some nice sounds out of it. Target audience is a bit more advanced so I don't explain every single thing in detail, but here's a list of resources you can look up before diving into the video:

Calculators, graphs:

[ernestojml]

One of the best tutorials in which I have learned a lot. Thank you.

[gnosis-real]

It nice to know someone else enjoys using math and the formula controller in FL. A few years back, I made a neural network using a bunch of formula controllers, I had the output modulate parameters in serum. Love your videos. Keep it up!

[FeralMess]

Great video! Thank you a lot for such efforts in educational field! My respect, as usually! :)

[FaBianrecord]

Great! i never was able to use voltage controller like that, honestly voltage controller was a forgotten tool for me. Thanks

[RFmath_]

What sounds better with this technique - additive or subtractive?

[earthjulian]

Do you have a stem degree? Feels like it. Cool video 👍🏽👍🏽

[adamsmith]

Wicked tutorial. I've always meant to get into the formula controller, but never got round to it. I saw your name mentioned in a thread about input mapping formulas, because I was interested in getting more functionality from automation clips as well as other controllers like the envelope controller and X Y Z controller, and someone mentioned this video. Definitely worth watching.

Just a few questions: Having not really used this extensively, I'm unfamiliar with it's full functionality, so bear with me. It seems like this controller is free running, based on the host tempo. Is it possible you use assychronously with hertz values? Also can you trigger it with a gate signal. such as note on? That last one in particular would be of a lot of use.

[sinistar]

3:36 yeah, this would be a really cool way to simulate sounds from the FDS, but may you could just do hi-fi to render the wave, stretch to one second, downsample to 64Hz and linearly interpolate. Fuck, that would be a better way to do it. Nevermind.

[GarryDumblowski]

So I'm still confused byu something. The formulas listed on your files all generate the waves at like 1 hz, and it doesn't seem like there's some sort of explanation of how to make the conversion to the pitches used in the video after 3:37. I get that this is an advanced video but considering that none of the plugins shown here seem to actually convert the waves to a reasonable pitch, I'm baffled about how I'm supposed to actually make anything listenable with what I got from all of this.

[halaaal]

Just the other day I was wondering if this was possible. 🤔

[Tobi-oiuf]

Nice, Max4Live is better though xDDDD

[alphabeingmusic]

you're probably the only one using math they thought us in school irl. Makes me wanna learn math now cause i'm terrible at it. even basic math 🥲😭