Clover is a set of explorations that combine polyrhythms with manual timbre manipulation.

Video:
https://vimeo.com/1145498334

Tracks:
https://soundcloud.com/knut-graf/clover-a
https://soundcloud.com/knut-graf/clover-b
https://soundcloud.com/knut-graf/clover-c  (current)
https://soundcloud.com/knut-graf/clover-d

Patch notes:

Pulsar generates 4 lanes (blue, purple, green, red) of looping pulses, which are changed slightly during the recording. Lane 1 moves the Klee sequencer forward. 

Klee provides a loop of pitches, and a second loop of modulation values. The pitch signal is quantized and distributed to the voices.

Blue voice is the main voice, consisting of a square wave with PWM from Doepfer Miniature Synthesizer Voice, mixed with a square from Jupiter Storm oscillator. Voice 1 is modulated in a variety of ways: envelope speed by the modulation loop on Klee, filter cutoff (FM1) by LFO, PWM rate by sine from Mino oscillator.

Purple voice is a bass from STO oscillator through a low pass gate (Meng Qi DPLPG, with an envelope from Delptronics Module One. "Shape" modifier of STO Is modulated by LFO.
Green voice is a high "blip", a saw from Mino oscillator through the other channel of DPLPG.
Red voice is a hi hat-like pulse generated by pinging the AI Synthesis OTA filter (plus some digital shaping.)
Doepfer VC Slew Processor / Generator serves as LFO.
Playing the patch involves adjusting the patterns on Pulsar, the pitch sequence on Klee, parameters on blue voice and purple voice, and playing the LFO to as it feeds into the blue voice filter.
The voices are recorded in Loopy Pro on iPad, where a little reverb, delay and compression is added, along with granular atmosphere from Bram Bos / Hainbach Fluss plug-in. Blue voice receives sidechain compression from purple voice.
The name of the track, Clover, is the English translation of German "Klee", the name of the sequencer used.

Clover C

Knut Graf