Winehouse Vocalmix

My Favorite of the seven tracks recorded. My daughter, Madeline, on bass with the San Francisco Rock Project House band. Recorded in one take with no editing at SANTO Studio in Oakland, CA.

Dancing With Tears in My Eyes - San Francisco Rock Project (X Cover)

This all started as a quick project at 4am on a night where I had trouble sleeping and morphed into me building out a new, small production rig. You can hear that original 4am version at https://soundcloud.com/john-belew/never-let-me-down-again-sub37-scratch-mix, 

This mix started as a re-creation from the original mono stems and grew as I began incorporating my Moog Sub 37, Korg MS20 with SQ1, Nord Lead 2, Blofeld, and of course, an Emax II with Alan Wilder samples (SCSI2SD rocks for those old samplers). The arrangement was done in in Ableton with Push 2, but I progressively moved away from Ableton for mixing, going with more traditional approach using a Yamaha 01v96i to bridge between Ableton and having a physical surface to work with. 

The goal of this mix was to capture a bit of the "Split Mix" feel within the original song structure, but grew to include both an extended intro and outro (my daughter kept saying, "Make something different"). The "Split Mix" style bass line is a mix of two recordings on the Moog Sub 37, one with filter randomized and one with a sweep programmed with the SQ1 that's phase panned. 

I'm still a fan of layers and perception of sound instead of the more modern approach of up-front and focused tones, so this probably sounds a bit dated to most. That said, I made something that I like, as has always been the case. Maybe you'll like it too.   

Never Let Me Down Again (Dark Moog Insomnia Mix)

Rossum Morpheus filtering Clouds, Omikron and Braids with a bit of Clouds reverb.

First Morpheus Drone

First recorded patch with the Octocontroller.
 
Main sound is Chord going through the Morpheus with timed modulation creating the strumming sound. The “air” sound is the Erica Black Wavetable with quite a bit of bit crushing to get the breathy effect just cycling through the wave table with a slow LFO. The bass is Omikron going through a Doepfer Wasp with a synced LFO from the Octocontroller on the filter depth. Noise percussion is a Wogglebug OSC (finally have a good use for this thing) going through an Evolution filter. Tamed the Wogglebug a bit by giving in a sine from the Omikron into the “Influence” input. There’s a little bit of Rings to accent the bass, then a healthy dose of Clods Oliverb on the Wavetable for depth.

Octocontroller Ambience

A quick ambient track with the new WMD Arpitecht doing generative melody duties. Counter melody is the Triads expander. Note mask and triad modulated with a slow, clocked S/H.

Arpitecht Ambiance

Here's a (too long) example of Ornament and Crime in Quantermain  mode, handling chord harmonics based off a root note,  Root note is coming from a Turing Machine and Ornament and Crime is quantizing everything to scale, specifically dorian C. Patch is all generative save the kick pattern on the Analog Rytm. A fun exercise in practicing generative stuff  ... Module used include


Turing Machine
Ornament and Crime
Knight's Gallop
Grids
Ladik M-216
Yarns
Octocontroller
Braids
Batumi
Evolution
Malekko Mute 4
A-160-1, A-160-2 and A-160-5 clock utilities
Rings
Erica Black Wavetable VCO
Disting MK4
uScale II
WMD S.P.O.
Clouds(Oliverb)
Veils
Erica Black Stereo Mixer
EMW Alias
Omikron
Manhatten Analog DTM
Doepfer WASP VCF
Morpheus
Arpitecht and Triads
Aperture
Quadra with expander
Erica PICO DSP
Analog Rytm
TC Electronics Flashback

Ornament and Crime Generative Patch

A little, Sunday afternoon techno jam. All live, one take on the modular. Modules used include --

Qu-bit Chord
Grids
Ladik M-216
Yarns
Braids
WMD S.P.O.
WMD Aperture
WMD MMF
Evolution
Streams
Doepfer WASP
Pamela's New Workout
Octocontroller
Klavis Twin Wave
Disting Mk4
Peaks
Clouds
Freez
Erica Pico DSP
Erica Stereo Mixer
WMD Apritecht and Triads
TINRS Tuesday
Blinds
Veils
WMD SSM
ER-301
Metropolis
Quadra
Analog Rytm

Sunday Afternoon Techno Jam

After shuffling things around to create a 12u performance rack, a little generative piece based around the ER-301 and Ornament and Crime to give things a spin..

Sunday Generative Patch

Another Sunday Jam

Adding a few more parts and attempting a better mix of the 081018 patch. Patched some swing with Maths and added Doepfer A-105 filter to the rig FTW!

081218 - Generative Techno Drone

Real-time jam focusing on the WMD Aperture. The rest is samples on the ER-301 with various filters.

Aperture Demo

A quick patch demo'ing the Qu-Bit Chord 2. Also, featuring some of my other recent acquisitions including the Klee and the Erica Plasma Drive.

Chord2 Demo

A quick demo of the Manis Iteritas playing the lead line.

Manis Iteritas Demo

Soundstage Demo

Klee Madness

A demo of taking a generative patch from the modular, recording it with L-20, and editing down in Reaper.

191223 - Modular Jam Edit

Been a while, so here's a quick jam I did over the past few days experimenting with euclidian phrasing and voltage-controlled switches.

Killing Floor

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