wind from chaos no 1.wav

I have built a Nonlinearcircuits Sloth LFO, the regular version. Sloth is a chaotic LFO. The output is based on the Lorenz system. It is a system of ordinary differential equations. It is notable for having chaotic solutions for certain parameter values and initial conditions. In particular, the Lorenz attractor is a set of chaotic solutions of the Lorenz system which, when plotted, resemble a butterfly or figure eight (very much from Wikipedia).

The Sloth has two outputs X and Y. Think of them as coordinate pairs. The output will probably never repeat itself but there is a pattern.

I have built the regular Sloth it usually takes approx 15 seconds to make a rough figure 8, one cycle in the “butterly”.

Now I’m testing the module in different ways. In this sound I have connected white noise to a filter. The filter frequency is controlled by Sloth (X output). In this patch I have set the initial frequency low. That’s why there is a low humming wind noise between the “tops”. The output sound from filter goes to reverb. The sound is more a study of Sloth behavior than an attempt to create a great wind sound.