My entry in the March New York Modular Society Patchable Challenge.
There are 3:4:5 polyrhythms and 3:4:5:7:1:13:15 polymeters in the groove.

A Wrinkle in Time PATCHABLE-0024

Just Listen To Me

Celebration of life tinged by realization of mortality.

Sombre Festival

This is an excerpt of my sound track for Halloween 2022.  It is entirely generative.  Sounds are from Befaco Noise Plethora through Skull and Circuits Trident three-band distortion.  WMD Crater provides the heartbeat.  The 2hp Bell and Ginkosynthese Seeds through Limaflo Motomouth are the physical models for bells and vocal "moan".  Mutable Instruments Elements gives the knocking sounds.  Samples for chord stabs and chime are by ALM Squid Salmple.  Modulation comes from DivKid/Instruo ochd, DivKid/SSF RND Step, 2hp BRST, ALM Pam's New Workout, Music Thing Modular Turing Machine and Circuit Abbey ForeCastle.

Rain and Moan

Frenetic

Last recording before taking down this patch

Reprise Patchable-0022

My first attempt at full Monty stereo motion in a patch.  Patch notes:
The two melodic voices are each a Moog Mother 32 with the VCA open for the drone and their envelopes gated from the kick (low voice) and snare (high voice) lanes of Grids for their rhythmic pulse.  The triggers are manually controlled through a Eurorack hardware EOR dual switched OR combiner.
The open and closed hats are two colors of noise from Zlob Entropy and Entropy Expander through two channels of Befaco Percall using its "choke" function. They receive triggers directly from the snare and hat lanes of Grids.
The kick is a triangle wave from a Moog DFAM through the third channel of Percall.
One Mother-32 LFO triangle and a Zlob Skew-Fade LFO skewed triangle control stereo panning.  They are set to two different rates that are not exactly at a two to one ratio.  One voice and hat is panned by one of these LFO using an Intellijel Quadratt to manage the control voltages.  The other voice and hat employ another Quadratt.  To keep all four sounds separate, all eight channels of a Doepfer A-140-8 octal VCA process the four signals into four left-right pairs.
Effect send is done inside the case with a ai Synthesis ai-002 mixer.  Only the melodic voices are processed.  This send goes to two effect chains.  The first is a Frequency Central Stasis Leak set to a galloping delay.  The second is an RYO Optodist through a Fonotronik Triple Vactrol Resonator.  Effect returns are managed through a Make Noise XOH stereo output module.
All eight outputs of the Octal VCA are feed to individual channels in a Mackie 1202 outboard mixer where they are panned hard left and right.  The XOH effects mix is fed into the effects return on the Mackie.
The melody comes from an RYO Penta sequencer clocked from the Grids kick lane through a Synthrotek MDIV clock divider set to 1/4.  The kick receives its trigger from the second clock divider output which is set to 1/2.
Player controls include a Synthrotek Arcadian Rhythms triple momentary switch to hold and/or reset the Penta sequencer and the MDIV clock dividers.  Grids snare and hat density knobs provide more or less "busy-ness" in the hats and the upper melodic voice.  The XOH mix A knob brings in the double-time feel from the Stasis Leak delay, and its B knob brings in the resonated distortion on the melodic voices.  Mackie channel faders allow bringing the kick and hi-hats in and out of the mix.  Mutes on the kick and hats gates would have been nice but I ran out of switches.
This patch is ridiculous in its use of mults.  In addition to three ai synthesis dual 1-3 passive, one Intellijel dual 1-3 active, and two LMNTL six way passive mults, I needed to use a Zlob dual VCA's channel and mix outputs to mult one of the signals!

Stereo panning experiment

Nested sequences and bowed strings, shredded guitar and drums, all in modular.

2021 - 02 - 06 Traverse 2 0095

Contented Cow

Answer to this month's New York Modular Society Patchable Challenge.
Abstraction: Use only gates for modulation.  Use gates to bring different voices to the forefront in pitch, timbre or effect.
Progression: Change up the clock.  Totally change the patch-scape from  "normal", through chill, rave and back again.
Disruption: completely un-patch a module.  Voices meld together.
Disruption: un-patch all pitches.  Denouement.

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