Small segment of a Krell patch I put together with the help of Patch and Tweak by Kim Bjorn and Chris Meyer. Image shows state of the spaghetti. Pam’s is outputting smooth random signals to the rise and fall of Maths channel 1. Ornament and Crime is quantizing a chaotic sine wave from Batumi (VC of LFO from Maths self patch which is then scaled through SPO)to an Arabian scale in the key of G. Plaits through Pittsburgh Modular’s binary filter generates the windy drone. Everything is routed through Monsoon for texture. Fading accomplished via the channel 2 and 3 attenuverters on Maths. Recording done via iPhone so audio quality is generally trash. Sorry.

Feat. my wife hammering away on her mechanical keyboard.

Krell 1/24/2022

A generative patch using the Turing machine function of Ornament and Crime. Inspired but the Modular Cookbook episode “MOTIF” by Kind Stranger. Sound balance is still wonky as I’m still recording on an iPhone and I don’t have a proper stereo out. I’ll let this poor quality stand though as it’s part of the process. 

Feat. Neighbors loud dogs barking

Generative Saturday

Same patch as Sunday’s track but with better level controls. I’m pushing this through a Fender Super Champ amp with the Reverb on. Some noodling at the end with Monsoon (Clouds) made some gross noise and spoiled the mood. Yay. 

Feat. hella loud encoder clacking

Generative Monday

Experimenting with my new Expert Sleeper Disting Mk4 module and its Tape Delay app patched through Monsoon (standard clouds firmware) into 4MS Listen IO for stereo panning. Also recording directly into my PC using Audacity as it's easier than a DAW. There's some noise in the track I can't account for, but I'll sort it out and get rid of it eventually.

Feat. no ambient noise this time yay

Disting Tape Delay Vs Monsoon Reverb

Random voltages from Pam's into uO_C Quantermain set for a Blues Minor scale in C. Bass and reeds from Trident through Mum M8 and Steve's MS-22 respectively. High-hat from Plaits through Pittsburgh's Lifeforms. High hat through tape delay, melody though shimmer reverb. See track image for full patch.

Feat: probably some distortion from to quiet signal out into PC mic. I'll get this one day I swear.

Generative Bass And Hi Hat

Started as an experiment with Rossum Trident FM and dovetailed into playing with pulling arpeggios from Clep Diaz and messing with effects in Disting and FX Aid and then I added some saw noise from Plaits and so on. Ended up with something cool.

Xeno Warmup

An experimental patch that went somewhere eventually. I can't recall the patch, but I suppose that's part of the beauty of modular synth. Once it's unplugged, it's gone.

Heard Through Caverns

Drones are from Trident with pitch by 0-ctrl. Plucks are string modeling from Plaits with pitch by the Ornament and Crime LFSR. Everything is driven through the disting mk4 acting as a bitcrusher, then through the FX Aid as a tape delay, then finally through Monsoon (MI Clouds) for some feedback artifacting and reverb. This is a long track as I found a meditative energy to the whole thing and lingered in the sound's space for a while.

Void Meditation

Learning modular synth and abusing the public by sharing my audio experimentation.

a fell voice in vacuum