Early attempt at binaural recording in Central Park. Wind noise is freaking out the limiter. Need to tweak.

Binaural Recording - walk in Central Park 5.3.2014

Can you tell I got a new configuration I'm playing with?

This one is using everything, Maths, René, Dixie, Rubi, µFold, LPG, Triggerman, SCM.

Some fun little bits in there.


Triggerman Rene

This is more or less a free improv with some basic patterns pre-programmed on the White Whale with Monome and a granular synth I made for Soundplane in Supercollider at the last Monthly Music Hackathon. I dropped some samples from Obama's ISSL speech into it and then fooled around.

It's nice to finally have the euro, moog, soundplane and monome all working together.

Improv on a Declaration of War

A little foolin' with the White Whale, Mangrove and Rubicon.

Cloveland

Noodling with a new module, Three Sisters by whimsical raps. It's a set of 3 linked multimode filters with some unique parameters/effects.

2 vanilla loops one low, one higher, piped into the low and high inputs on the TS, low and high output, low mostly panned right, high panned left.

Then fiddle with knobs on the three sisters.

ThreeSisters

Just got a new module from Folktek. It makes clicky noises, and when you run other signals (audio and/or CV) through it it gets weird.

Folktek Matter Noodling

Modular 5.8 - 7.8

Experiment with 10 parallel harmonically related sine wave -> wave folder chains, modulating sine wave amplitude and fold window (upper/lower threshold)to create all variations in the sound.

Supercollider code:

(

SynthDef(\sinefolds,
	{
		arg gate = 1, freq = 60, amp = 0.3, out = 0, fold = 1, sym = 0, drive = 1;

		var sig, lo, hi, foldEnv, driveEnv, modDel, modImp, copies;

		copies = 10; // set number of signal chains to create

		foldEnv = EnvGen.kr(Env.new([0, 0.7, 1, 1, 0.7, 0], [20, 30, 60, 30, 20], curve: \cub), doneAction: 2);
		driveEnv = EnvGen.kr(Env.new([0, 1, 1, 0], [80, 0, 80], \sin));

		sym = sym + SinOsc.ar(copies.collect(0.0125.rrand(0.006)), mul: 0.5);

		// modImp = Dust.ar(copies.collect(2.rrand(0.1))); // creates independent Dust ugens

		modImp = Dust.ar(copies);
		modImp = modImp * Demand.ar(modImp, 0,
			Dser((copies * 2 - 2).collect({|i| copies.collect({|j| if( j ==i.fold(0, copies -1)){1}{0}})}), inf));
		// round robin Dust ugen impulses to _copies_ sized array

		modDel = Ringz.ar(modImp, 1, 5.rrand(10.0), 0.2);
		modDel = modDel +  CombC.ar(LPF.ar(modDel, 50), 0.5, copies.collect(0.3.rrand(0.05)), 6, 0.5);


		lo = max((-1 * foldEnv) + sym, -1);
		hi = min(foldEnv + sym, 1);

		sig = copies.collect({|i| SinOsc.ar( freq + [0.06.rand2, (freq * i) + 0.06.rand2].choose)});

		drive = max(0.5, driveEnv * 2 + modDel);
		sig = sig * drive;

		sig = Fold.ar(sig, lo, hi).scope;

		sig = sig * amp * gate;

		sig = Splay.ar(sig);

		sig = LeakDC.ar(sig);

		sig = Limiter.ar(sig, 0.9); // protect your ears

		Out.ar(out, sig);

}).add;

)

x = Synth(\sinefolds, [\freq, 43.06640625]) // evaluate this line to start

FoldedSinesB

Learning to use monome Kria looping sequencer. a 13 pulse phrase over duple percussion sounds.

This isn't something you'll want to listen to start to end, but there's some cool things happening all over the place. Be careful with your ears and your speakers. Especially in the last few minutes.

13 melody is a PWM square into a resonant filter (rubicon -> Pgh LPG), the percussion is dixie II sine wave into a µFold + envelopes from Maths and pings from Kria modulating it.

And of course knob and button tweaking.

13/8 loop permutations over 2/4 wave percussion

Noodling around with Kria, Mangrove, and Rubicon through some folders and filters. Maths and Dixie LFO for modulation.

NicholasColvin

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