Demonstrating the system's filter pinging capabilities is of course another key rite of passage for the so-called "West Coast" (ugh) synthesizer and synthesist. I stumbled onto this rubber band/bouncing ball type patch that reminded me of "Bowery Bum" or "Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe" by İlhan Mimaroğlu, one of my favorite composers from one of my favorite early electronic music studios (Columbia-Princeton); I chose to name it after the latter piece given that I live only about a mile from Poe's grave in downtown Baltimore.

The rubber band effect is accentuated by a long, heavily modulated stereo delay from Soundtoys PrimalTap, as well as some faux-spring reverb from Logic's Space Designer for '60s flavor. The dry signal from the synthesizer is also mildly massaged by Klanghelm MJUC for transient shaping and overdrive. The patch was not altered during the take except to momentarily stop/start it near the end of this recording.

Study after "Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe"

for sketches and sundries that don't warrant commercial releases

Study after "Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe"

EVEN MORE MAOIST THAN CORNELIUS CARDEW