This was a challenge to perform for twenty minutes. I ran out of patch cables, but I still managed to use every complete working module I own in this picture. Okay, technically the vpme.de Zeroscope and Afrorack Or Switch had no effect on the final recording. It gets a little experimental at parts, but I am proud of what I accomplished. As always, any comments/criticism appreciated.

STE - 012

Quick patch while my wife and kid were out eating. I just really wanted to run closed chords on Chainsaw with Pams. I threw on a random sample and had a small Knit melody (also from Pams), and did my usual filter tweaking. One fun thing here was that I didn't use vcas at all, I just enveloped the filter cutoff frequencies. Also, I'm posting this (slightly volume edited) less than an hour after I had the idea to start patching, and everything's already packed up and put away. That feels really good!

STE - 014

First patch in Mexico! This was another pretty safe Pams into Chainsaw patch. I made different signal paths with the stereo outs of Chainsaw though. Each channel went through a different filter, and different channel of Clouds. One channel went through reverb, and the other didn't. I also added some voice memo recording of a rain storm on Two of Cups, and had some sporadic percussive bits on Knit.

STE - 015

This was a meditative little patch with (of course) Pams into Chainsaw at its core. I also have Pams giving some random stuff to Knit. This time, I used ADSR envelopes on Pique to give the voices a little more character. There's also a little sample running on Two of Cups to provide some background scratches. The whole chain goes through Clouds (I know) then reverb (I know!).

STE - 017

I was feeling bad that I hadn't used Scales on any of my recent patches, so I ran Chainsaw with Scales today. I also had the kick from Pique, a Euclidean rhythm from Pams triggering a sample on Two of Cups, along with some background wash from Tap. I also ran the vowel/speech synthesis on Knit for some extra flavor.

This really sounded great while I was recording it. It's a shame that the kick really came through too loud on this take.

STE - 018

This began as a proof of concept using some piano samples, a bass sequence programmed into Scales, and some snare sounds on Knit, but then I remembered that Pez challenged me to use a cv input on Pams, so I decided to use a "kick" sample that I made by manipulating a sine wave, and control its random skip probability with cv... then it got weird.

STE - 020

This was the second performance of a multi-part song on my small case. The voices are: piano samples and a noise sample on Two of Cups, the piano sample resampled on Clouds, a bass sequence from Scales on Chainsaw, a random higher melody voice on Chainsaw (toggled with cv on Pams and some settings on Pons Asinorum), kick and snare from Pique stacked, and hi-hat from Knit. I also messed with some tails on the reverb unit.

Switching between patterns was a matter of letting something transient play while I: turned a knob on Junction to change the cv into Pams, flipped the Pons Asinorum ramp direction, and toggled the Pons Asinorum time to minimum.

STE - 022

This was the third performance of a multi-part song on my small case. The voices are: piano samples and a noise sample on Two of Cups, the piano sample resampled on Clouds, a bass sequence from Scales on Chainsaw, a random higher melody voice on Chainsaw (toggled with cv on Pams and some settings on Pons Asinorum), kick and snare from Pique stacked, and hi-hat from Knit. I also messed with some tails on the reverb unit.

Switching between patterns was a matter of letting something transient play while I: turned a knob on Junction to change the cv into Pams, flipped the Pons Asinorum ramp direction, and toggled the Pons Asinorum time to minimum.

STE - 023

First patch in a while. We went to Oaxaca for a while, then Mexico City, and I left my rack here in Tequis. This uses Pams to run basically everything: Chainsaw, Knit, uClouds, etc... I also had a sample running on Two of Cups run with the +5v output on Junction (so handy!).

STE - 030

Another mellow one, and maybe my last upload for a while, as we're planning to start the trek back home tomorrow. Pams had a simple triangle swell on a Chainsaw drone, some random minor pentatonic stuff into the wavetable voice of Knit, a rare sample trigger from one channel of Two of Cups, and a few attenuated LFOs that slightly affected cutoff frequencies and oscillator parameters. The big controls were the other trigger for Two of Cups, which was again the +5v from Junction, and the density on uClouds.

STE - 032

I recently got into modular, and I'm looking for feedback on some sketches here. Back in like, 2003, when I was an anonymous radio dj, someone that I'd met literally once or twice recognized my voice and called in. He referred to me as "Doctor O," because my nickname was Stevo. This was years before I had even contemplated getting a doctorate.

DJ Doctor O