An atmospheric journey on various synthesizer hardware, routed through a small army of stompboxes. With any luck, it can send you into outer space, or at least to a realm of relative peacefulness.

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Cleaning Supplies - Half-Lit Sidewalks

Little Saturday morning jam. Yes, I'm aware that I'm posting this on Sunday. I haven't been able to log in to SoundCloud because their robots are accusing me of being a robot myself. Pot, meet kettle.

This ended up being a pretty relaxing jam, with nicely pulsating bass, and some sound that reminds me a lot of marimbas. Low-pass gates are awesome.

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So Many Trees

In which I use my drum practice pad as a controller for my modular setup. A contact mic near the badge of this pad is sent into Erica Synths Pico EF for further processing, and from there... the sky's the limit, really.

Cleaning Supplies - Ambient Drumline

Making intensive use of the Everlasting Glottal Stopper modular in VCV Rack. It's a hell of a nice sound source, I have got to say.

Cleaning Supplies - The Rain Talks To Me

Pitch entirely sequenced by the Deluge, run into the modular synth from there. The weird pitch-bent part can change every 3 beats, but the pitch is run into a Doepfer S&H. Envelope follower has a drum practice pad with a contact mic to its input, with the EF's gate output driving the S&H trigger.

Pretty neat way of approaching all of this, I think.

Cleaning Supplies - Space Drums

I can play my modular synth with a gong. I should have come up with this idea forever ago. I think it's overpowered.

Cleaning Supplies - A Presence Felt Without Touch

A four-step sequencer goes a long way if you've got a clock divider, a logic module, and a unity mixer.

The main sound is a Joranalogue Generate 3. No samples were used in this. I don't know how it ended up sounding so piano-like.

Cleaning Supplies - The Logical Piano

Testing an idea spurred by some nonsense that Sonic Kitchen said on Discord. Took the idea and ran with it.

This is more of a concept or test than anything, but it was cool enough to warrant sharing.

No sequencers used. Just a lot of logic (and 8bit Cipher twice over!).

Reflectn

More voltage-controlled switches! More logic gates slammed into unity mixers! More sloths!?

This space flight thing is weird, man.

Bravo to the Contour 1 for being an effective shuffle rhythm generator. What a handy clock! I mean function generator.

Space Shuttle Shuffle

Some upbeat synth stuff made with no sequencers. Just some clock dividers, adders, rectifiers, and mixers! Let's Splosh!!

Bus Trip to Somewhere

Logic gates and abuse of slew limiters. Fun for days! Original recording was 51 minutes, but I chopped it down to wherever truncation made most sense.

I may or may not have fallen asleep during audio review.

Lull

Cleaning Supplies - Lull

They left the asylum to rot, but nobody told us. We withered into the shadows as nature reclaimed the concrete and bones forgotten.

Cleaning Supplies - Shuttered

Cleaning Supplies - Driving With A Purpose, Probably

I updated my field recorder so that now I can stream audio to Discord and record it on the recorder at the same time. Yay!

We celebrated by having fun on Discord with sounds. This is a short clip of some of the results.

Monsters Like Soothing Sounds, Too!

Everything failed in the dead of a cold winter night. I don't think we'll be able to get the generators fired up in time...

MMM Streaming Sessions

Cold Start

A four-unit cycle of function generators all triggering each other in a circle(and playing sounds to go with them).

Many thanks to Sonic Kitchen for the samples I used in this. The specific samples are some bronze bells and a Bao gong.

There are oscillators running in this, but they mostly appear in the form of weird and intermittent noises.

Esoteric Winter Ritual

I decided to pull out the good mic and the tankdrum and drown percussive sounds in reverb with an excessive delay setup.

Good times.

Rainy Day Regiment

Some more tankdrum + pedalboard experiments. It was a good day.

Frozen Metal

When your pals have food-related audio recordings, you simply HAVE to run them through VCV Rack. Various Pringle crunching samples from @Sonic_Kitchen.

Pringles Can Drum Circle

Diesel

This sat here a bit longer than anticipated.

Stagnation

Simulation Terminated

I GOT SICK AND MISSED FREE CANDY DAY AND THE WORLD IS WORSE FOR IT.

Horror Hocket

I'M LIKE A SECRET AGENT BUT I HAVE BAD IDEAS AND WORSE ODORS.

Stink Panther

A chicken sandwich's favorite waveform is the slawtooth.

Shimmer

The Phantom of the Pretzel

SIR YOU APPEAR TO HAVE PARKED YOUR CAR ON MY SECOND ASS.

Traffic Signal Feud

SLEEP ON IT AND THEN SLUG IT OUT TOMORROW.

Rage Sleeping

EXTERMINAGUHJGUHGUHGG LORD GOD THAT'S REALLY IN THERE

Dalek Fisting

It claws you to death as a sign of affection.

Data Center Demon

Crunch Bar

Blippy Squirk

Time to test a MIDI recorder, or something.

Mopey Alien

Smacking my plank in the face (with more planks).

Planking Fetish

I think that's about as much polyphony as I'm ever going to squeeze out of the Hydrasynth at one time.

funkymeeba

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