Synthony #1

Some deep space atmospherics from new E370 'MorphZ+Chord' mode in the 1.6 beta firmware. 

Tech notes:  Opens with movements thru the chord tables driven by a self-patched Maths at fairly high speeds, ch4 varying the range of ch1 while another Maths lightly morphs the sound - all 3 voices from a single oscillator (leaves the other three oscillators free for other duties: another 3 LFO's or 12 voices in chord mode etc)

Percussion generated from chords selected by a clocked Pressure Points and squashed with exponential Math envelopes in a crisp Malekko Boogie filter in LPG mode. 

The 'lonely outpost' sound generated from light FMing while moving thru chords, again selected with PP.

Later chord stabs are coordinated with arpeggiated versions of the same chord, a SSM sequential switch helps rotate thru each note of the chord.

E370 is the sole sound source

Station E370

TECH NOTES: A cross fade between two oscillators in 'MorphZ+Sub Mode' processed with the E520's Shimmer Reverb. 

This mode enables a secondary sub-oscillator, here a saw wave, to be set to one octave below a slowly modulated primary morphing waveform. A second modulator blends the mix of both, back and forth. 

Used the voice copy option in [Voice Settings] to clone osc1 to osc2, the clone being set one octave below the original. Slaved the XY movements of osc2 to respond to the inputs of osc1 also. These two voices slowly crossfade with a 2 phase-separated channels of the PEG controlling the 2 channels of an Optomix. 

The result is fed into a E520 Shimmer Reverb patch where an slow internal LFO (@ 1 BPM) modulates the Reverb Time parameter.

E370 / E520 MorphZ+Sub Thru Shimmer Reverb

This is the third draft of a track I am working on.   This demo is good enough to let out in the wild.

For the synth nerds, this track was put together in BitWig Studio 4.  I used a Waldorf Pulse, Novation Summit, Elektron Digitakt & Octatrack MKII, Korg Wavestate and, of course, my euroroack modular system.

Scortched Earth

I was testing the new LAHD triggered envelopes, It makes it much easier to get nice percussive sounds. Osc 1 is basic sin, and osc 2 is WEdit 2Z mode. the entire thing was made while on factory wave 39. just turning tracks on and of and adjusting the knobs on the DoT. (right encoder was adjusting envelope 1 decay.) I was quite surprised with the amount of variation you can get from just 1 waveedit file.

DoT WE39

Demonstrating what can be done with a module I'm developing.

Ian Fritz Hypster Chaos generating 4 CVs
the 4 CVs into the Bell's Theorem module
The first 4 outputs controlling a VnIcursal VCA by Zlob Modular
The inputs to the VCA come from a Synthesis Technology E370
The last 4 outputs going through an attenuator bank the Honey Badger and then control the X parameters of the 4 E370 wavetables
The middle 4 outputs go directly to controlling the Y parameters of the 4 E370 wavetables

The VCA has a mix output, which goes to a mixer channel, and into the Eventide Space for reverb.

Of course there's lots of other details like the parameters of the Hypster, the pitches of the 4 oscillators, which wavetables they're using, etc.  But this was built without a whole lot of effort and then just tweaked a bit.

The Bell's Theorem module is based on a quantum mechanics demonstration about the probabilistic behavior of photons, using polarized lenses.  When you stack them, the lenses behave in unexpected ways.

More details here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19vDMR2qB1RNy7pX3iAjI60XanBWiMiJt_XUQr10MEiA/edit?usp=sharing

BellsTheorem - Drone 1

Oriental Spook

Free Range Patches

Funk noodle

Imagine a world.  A world like Mercury.
A small world, little atmosphere.   Rich in metals and heavy elements.

Too harsh an environment for 'life as we know it'.

But somehow,  life started under the crust where it was protected from the harsh surface conditions, and then migrated to the surface, incorporating the heavy metals and elements in its structure to protect itself.

Their cells are like tiny batteries. They power themselves from chemical energy and radio active decay.

No atmosphere, no sound...so they communicate in radio waves.

Metallicis Insecta

A spontaneous, almost unplanned improv. I just hit a key when I was fiddling and thought... sounds liike 2001! And I hit record and kept going. Using the Lyra-8 synthesizer through a Hyperion E-520 effects processor with reverb from an Expert Sleepers Disting EX, and recorded on an Expert Sleepers Disting Mk4

BellsTheorem - Drone 1

elmegil

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