The Disting mkIV plays a 2 hour sample of the Shipping Forecast from BBC Radio.

One of Pam’s channels triggers the sample to start playing again, while another channel, attenuated by Maths, moves the play head around randomly. So each trigger starts the sample at a different point.

Then the audio goes into the Magneto with the dry at 0 and only one play head active. The tape effects (low cut, tape age, crinkle, wow & flutter) and reverb are all doing something, only about 20% reverb though. So the sample sounds like an old, worn out tape.

Repeats on the Magneto is modulated by the Batumi so sometimes you get no repeats, sometimes a few, sometimes a lot.

Then the processed audio goes into the Data Bender with Bend and Break turned on and modulated by the Batumi.

The Data Bender’s Mix knob is modulated by the Batumi so sometimes it’s not doing anything, sometimes it’s doing a little, sometimes a lot!

FINALLY the signal goes into the Supercell (expanded Clouds) in SPECTRAL MADNESS mode which no one pretends they understand. It is HEAVILY moduled by Pam’s and it’s Mix knob is also being modulated by an LFO (from the Doepfer A-143 because I ran out of outputs on the Batumi). 

With the effect that the audio from the Disting is sometimes very very heavily processed, sometimes all the mix knobs are all the way down and you just hear the Magneto’s tape effects processing the raw audio.

The synthwash pad under it all is the ODESSA with its Bank select and Partials being modulated by the Doepfer and its 1v/Oct getting pushed around by Chance’s discreet output. So the pitch changes every once in a while (not too much, the attenuator on Chance is at like 20%) and the result goes into the Desmodus Versio which I’ve yet to read the manual on so I’m not even sure what all it’s knobs do, I just fiddled with it until it sounded good.

Good. Occasionally Poor

Matt Colville