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DCT - FTP (AUT2M Remix)

tonight's sound is definitely a process-driven affair. i had an idea in my head and wanted to see it out, regardless of the outcome. it wasn't terribly complex but something i've been meaning to try.

this is another modular sound and the patching goes something like this:

verbos harmonic oscillator
pitch being sequenced by a turing machine that's being clocked from a bubblesound uLFO
4 individual sine waves out to the 4 inputs of an intellijel planar
eowave lfo modulating x and y axes of planar to crossfade between the 4 sine waves
mix out of planar going into a make noise phonogene, being looped
dry and loop output going into an intellijel uVCF bandpass filter being modulated by an e355 LFO which in turn is having it's speed being modulated by a sine wave following the clock rate.
everything is going through an ALM SBG which feeds an eventide H9 reverb.

some interesting things i think. it's sounding too harsh for me. i wonder what it would be like with some intellijel sine waves, from a dixie or a rubicon (neither of which i have, yet) which are really beautiful. i find the verbos sines to be a bit aggressive sometimes. i haven't fully explored why or a way around it.

May 30, 2014 (Pale Sinewaves)

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today's sound started as an experiment in using the make noise wogglebug as a sample rate reducer... a trick of the module, which generally isn't known for doing that... where you can sample an incoming single based on the rate of a 2nd signal going in.

in this case i plugged the qubit nebulae into the wogglebug and sampled it with a waveform from the e350 oscillator. the pitch of the oscillator effectively becomes the same rate of the incoming sound, in this case, the nebulae.

the nebulae is in freeze mode and the make noise rene sequencer is sequencing the start/scan point of the frozen sample.

the whole thing goes into an intellijel korgasmatron filter to filter out some, but not all, of the harsher sample-rate-reduction effect. the signal is also being fed into a serge resonant EQ and a make noise erbe verb.

i play a bit with the pitch of the e350 to make those sweeping and bending sounds, which is basically turning the sample rate of the nebulae sample down and up.

the patch started as a simple experiment to try this use of the wogglebug out but i ended up being able to work out a nice looping sound by the end.

thank you to the excellent tutorial on this process by collin russell music on youtube, which is where i learned to do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pws9rY9kUhw