Modular Suitcase

Dans le morceau suivant, Tides joue tour à tour le rôle de LFO, de générateur d'enveloppe et d'oscillateur.  
La première partie est un drone à quatre pistes. Chacune animée par un LFO dédié de Tides en mode " différentes fréquences ".  Beaucoup d'effets ajoutés dans le séquenceur audio (Reaper) également.
Puis deux pistes de " basse " jouées avec le Korg SQ-1.  Tides joue ici son rôle d’oscillateur audio.   Même patch, réglages différents.  Les variations sont soit la fréquence du filtre Ripples, soit les paramètres « shape » et « smoothness » de Tides.  Ceux-ci ont un effet dramatique sur le son évidemment.
Enfin, Tides sert d'enveloppe des différentes parties de batterie.

Facing the Tides

Music: Act Talk Bali
Lyrics: Aube (Arthur Rimbaud)
Narrator: Gilles-Claude Thériault (see https://youtu.be/uTnt6V3toxE)
Includes a sample from Lang Elliott's "Wild Sounds of the Northwoods (North America)"

J’ai embrassé l’aube d’été.
Rien ne bougeait encore au front des palais. L’eau était morte. Les camps d’ombres ne quittaient pas la route du bois. J’ai marché, réveillant les haleines vives et tièdes, et les pierreries regardèrent, et les ailes se levèrent sans bruit.
La première entreprise fut, dans le sentier déjà empli de frais et blêmes éclats, une fleur qui me dit son nom.
Je ris au wasserfall blond qui s’échevela à travers les sapins : à la cime argentée je reconnus la déesse.
Alors je levai un à un les voiles. Dans l’allée, en agitant les bras. Par la plaine, où je l’ai dénoncée au coq. À la grand’ville elle fuyait parmi les clochers et les dômes, et courant comme un mendiant sur les quais de marbre, je la chassais.
En haut de la route, près d’un bois de lauriers, je l’ai entourée avec ses voiles amassés, et j’ai senti un peu son immense corps. L’aube et l’enfant tombèrent au bas du bois.
Au réveil il était midi.

Aube  [Arthur Rimbaud]

This five-track piece was recorded on a single session.  No detailed patch today but a light description.

Ornament & Crime with the Pique application generates the three envelopes for the drums using the included euclidian rythm patterns. 

Kick is Ripples filter pinged and modulated by OCP envelope number 1.

Light clap is a sine wave ringed modulated with white noise in A*B+C with OCP envelope number 2.

Hi-Hat is pink noise mixed with triangle into Erica Synth high-pass filter with OCP envelope number 3.

Patterns for clap and hi-hat are controlled via control voltage, hence the variations.  Clap is controlled via sequencer, hi-hat density is controlled by a random source. 

Swoosh effects is white noise into Rings into Beads, with Tides and other sources as modulation.

Bass, clock and sequencer from Novation Circuit Mono Station.

Sources of modulations : Sloth Chaos, Rampage, Turing Machine and Sample&Hold.

Some effects courtesy of Line 6 HX Stomp.

DAW : Reaper.  Additional effects on Hi-Hat include a dotted 8th note delay. Other effects: stereo diffusion, compressor on drums and bass, some reverb on drums, tons of EQ.

Some Drums Some Bass

(c) SABAM

Illustration :
https://pixabay.com/users/v_m-5053565/

Sound Effects :
https://lasonotheque.org
https://www.sound-fishing.net

Goeland Blues (Revisited)

Dead Or Alive (Gun Shot Mix) - (New Demo Version)

(c) SABAM

Illustration : 
https://instagram.com/quenteki?igshid=NzZhOTFlYzFmZQ==

Sound Effects :
https://lasonotheque.org
https://www.sound-fishing.net

Aquarium (Bubble Mix) - (New Demo Version)

(c)SABAM

Illustration : 
Angie and the Dr Five

Sound Effects :
https://lasonotheque.org
https://www.sound-fishing.net

Problems (Remix '23) - (New Demo Version)

(c) SABAM

Illustration : 
https://pixabay.com/fr/users/papafox-7788876/

Sound Effects :
https://lasonotheque.org
https://www.sound-fishing.net
https://youtube.com/@Effectmix59?si=uWj8GvUUUBBYmN4R

I Would Like (Revisited) - (New Demo Version)

Musique et paroles: M. Hagemann (d'après 1 Corinthiens 13)
Interprété par la Chorale St Paul.
Enregistré en public en l'Eglise St Clément d'Oreye, le 5 juin 2011.


L'amour jamais ne passera

(c) SABAM

Illustration : 
IA generate via PhotoLeap

Try (One More Time) - (Cyber Punk Mix) - (New Demo Version)

(c) Sabam

Illustration:
https://pixabay.com/fr/users/artapixel-8829724/

The Next Level

Music: Act talk Bali
Voice: Mahsa Vahdat, sampled from the CD "A Cappella, The sun will rise" (an album that I highly recommend)

Imaginary Trip to Nixon's China, Part I

Imaginary Trip to Nixon's China, Part II

Track for this month’s KVR Music Cafe.  The theme is 'Weird'.

I chose to pay tribute to the photograph of the farthest object ever explored by a human probe.

Daw : Reaper
Most sounds from my modular synthesizer, some of them sampled within Reason, others recorded as tracks in Reaper.
Cymbals from Kontakt TR-808 preset.
Melody from Korg Polysix Legacy plugin
Modem sound sample from soudjay.com

Photo credit : NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Roman Tkachenko

This composite image of the primordial contact binary Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 (nicknamed Ultima Thule) was compiled from data obtained by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it flew by the object on Jan. 1, 2019.

The Photograph at the Edge of the Solar System

Main synth : Modular Suitcase

Main part is the PWM output of Doepfer A110-1 VCO into the DIY filter.  Each of the filter output (LP, BP, HP) is treated in a different path and recorded separately.  Low pass takes the role of the bass, band pass gives some overtone and high pass gives the high pitch percussions.
The Korg SQ-1 sequences the lot.  There is a single sequence in two modes : zip of 16 steps on intro, and bridge, 2 lines of 8 steps (one for low pass, one for high pass) for the verses and outro.  Percussion line is driven by the Turing Machine.  Filter frequency is driven by two envelopes and manipulated by hand as well.

Wind effects are pink noise to Doepfer DIY filter, mixing HP and LP before going to the VCA.

Lead synth is a mix of saw and square wave through Doepfer DIY filter.  Portamento courtesy of Rampage.

Pads are a mix of the modular and the addition of pads from PoliSix emulation from Korg Legacy Collection, with heavy use of chorus.

DAW: Reaper
Effects : TAL Dub II, TAL Chorus-60, TAL Tube, TAL Reverb II, NI SuperCharger, Thomas Mundt LoudMax
Drums : 909 samples in NI Kontakt 5

Doepfer On Acid

What would it be like to orbit the black hole ?

Track made for the 39th season of "Compositions Inspirées" from Audiofanzine.

The theme is the image : 'Gargantua' black hole from the movie Interstellar.

Music is entirely generated by my modular suitcase.  This is a live session.  
Drone is two detuned saw waves into Erica Synth VCF.
Percussion is a mix of Rings and a sine through phaser.
Other synth track with PWM into Ripples, animation with TAL Filter 2.
Melody by Turing Machine and 2hp Tune.

Recorded in Reaper.
FX: TAL Filter 2, TAL Dub II, TAL Tube, TAL Chorus 60, Voxengo OldskoolVerb, Thomas Mundt LoudMax.

Orbiting Gargantua

DAW : Reaper
All sounds from my modular suitcase synthesizer.  

Photo : The Long Tails of Comet NEOWISE over Suchy Vrch, Czech Republic.  Image Credit : Petr Horalek

The Photograph at the Edge of the Solar System

Jay F.

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