No Mirror At Hotel Vernon 1 - 24 - 2023

Vibes/18*+27+28+33: soft doubled detuned twinkly vibraphone, clock to adjust tremolo speed (* common node)

10+19: long atk

off 18+28 on 1+18: v. long decay, beepy tremolo, clock to adj tremolo speed

Harp / off 1+18 on 18+28: whooping bubbly Harp, clock to adj whoop speed

J.Gui /: twinkly buzzy tremolo J.Gui, clock to adj trem speed

210 Harp //: '210 tone' button to double sound J.Gui//Harp

J.Org //: downwards gliss sequence, ends in high pitch square tone, clock to adjust gliss speed

P.Org//: upwards gliss sequence, ends in P.Org tone, clock to adjust gliss speed

J.Gui// 13+25: long atk

a few cuts/crossfades/vol/eq adjusting done in audacity

House ii

connection between D2 and D4 with 'Flute' tone on the ROM of Casio mt-240.2

4+13/Flute reedit

Connection between D4 and D14 with 'Brass' tone on the ROM of Casio mt-240.2

Race 13+14/Brass reedit

D7+A12+A9xD4 / Piano

Connections made between address (A) and data (D) lines on ROM of Casio mt-240.2 on 'Piano' tone

D7, A12, A9 all connected to D4 with ~100ohms resistance in between each

Endangered

Observers

Connections made between address (A) and data (D) lines on ROM of Casio mt-240.2 on 'M.Fnk' and 'Vibes' tone

D7+A13 M.Fnk & D2+D5 Vibes

A2+D4/J.guitar

Connections made between address (A) and data (D) lines on ROM of Casio mt-240.2 on 'J.Guitar' tone.

Flubber Harm

D6+A13 / Percussion: Bb3 - hammer rapidly 10 ten times to slightly stagger a warped and elongated sus. cymbal sample

D0, D1+V & D5+G (after D6+A13 off) in various combinations to cycle the sample at various speeds, pitches, directions, to improvise on. The timings affect each staggered sample differently, scrambling them as setup for the next part

Above a resistance threshold of ~120ohms, V+A13, 14, 15, 16, 17 speeds up the cycle greatly, which sounds like a fast scrub through pitches/timbres/durations

Below the threshold, the cycles seems to freeze and loop on a small (~.100ms to 1s) subsection. Because the ten samples are all scrambled, they make a complex polyrhythm by freezing at different pitches/timbres/durations

Right at the threshold (very precisely, a few ticks on a 10 turn 100 ohm pot will tip it over), the cycles will freeze, jump to a new subsection, and freeze again. How long it freezes for is random, possibly due to slight fluctuations in voltage causing it to tip over

While this is going on, G+A12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 in various combinations lets you exclusively change the timbre. With 10 turn 100 ohm pot, you can tween between the timbres with white noise in between

The limiting factor is mainly that you cannot connect an Address line to both G and V at the same time (this would cause a short circuit and turn off the keyboard)

However, certain combinations of A+V and A+G produce the same sound. So in order to smoothly explore the variety of interesting sounds in this mode, you need to weave between combinations and use these certain special combinations as pivot points

The challenge was finding a balance between sounds I wanted to explore and how reasonable the path to get there was. Last slide is the map of combinations (above) led to the path (below) with steps

Lastly, the 'bells' part uses A0-A12 + G to change 'frequency quality', and the ending was a lucky random effect caused by slowly short circuiting between V+D6+A13+G using a pot

Some edits were done in audacity - crossfading, editing of takes together, compression and eq, but can be performed live

Hysteresis ii

Connections made between D14 and A1 on ROM of Casio mt-240.2 with 'Vibes' tone

Also-
- A14+Gnd: adds bell-like timbre
- D4+A9: adds tom-like timbre
- A2+D7 makes the attack longer
- D2+A13 to gliss up
- D1+Gnd to gliss down
- CLK speed adjustments throughout to change the character of the effect

Change

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