This is modern Tangerine Dream at its best :-)

Improvised live modular synth performance Aug 16, 2021

Check out the video of this recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExNoFoWTXE4

This started as an experiment with some new modules – Qu-bit Bloom, WMD Performance Mixer and Mutable Instruments Beads.  It turned into something I liked so I figured I’d try another video.  But I didn’t actually use Beads in this recording.  ;-)

Here’s the routing:

Bloom 1v/o into DPO Osc B
DPO Osc A Following Osc B
Ochd into DPO Shape and Angle
DPO A & B into QPAS
QPAS to Quad VCA
Ochd into QPAS Freq
Quadrax Expander into QPAS wildcard 1
PNW LFO into Quadrax Fall CV
Bloom gate into Quadrax
Quadrax into Quad VCA
Quad VCA into Data
Into PM
PM Aux to Blackhole

Piston Honda A & B into Bionic Lester A & B HPF
Batumi into BL Freq
BL into Quad VCA
PNW into Quadrax Trig
Quadrax to Quad VCA
Quad VCA into Chronoblob
Batumi LFO into Chronoblob Mix
Chronoblob into WMD PM
Batumi into PM Pan CV

PNW clock into Marbles
Marbles into Rings
Rings into Mimeophon
Mim into WMD PM
WMD PM Aux to Blackhole

PNW into Rene 2
Rene into Black VCO 2
Black VCO into Freak
Freak into Quad VCA
Quadrax into Quad VCA
Quad VCA into WMD PM

PNW clock into DistingEX 6 Triggers – Kick
Disting into Ripples
Batumi into Ripples freq
Ripples into WMD PM

KeyStep Pro into Plaits
KSP mod into Plaits timbre
Plaits into Quad VCA
VCA into Intellijel 1U delay
Effects into PM
PM Aux into Blackhole

Koyasan

A relaxing generative ambient track, lead by a Ts-L oscillator, with pads courtesy of Enoc, and with a little Plinky pulling its weight in the background with its shimmery choral.

Shimmering Lake

Modular ambient track created with the setup shown.  Stochastic Inspiration Generator is sequencing a 4ms Ensemble Oscillator, MSW micro Plaits, and Qu-Bit Surface with lots of reverb from a Strymon Starlab and ALA Typhoon.  uPlaits is running through the Strymon Magneto for some dubs delays with lots of feedback at times.  I'm also using an Instruo Lubadh tape looper to sample the Starlab output to create some background atmosphere.  You hear it in the repetitive tidbits.  Hope you like it.

Spheres

Mountain Pass - Part 2

Spinning Rust

Mi rings, mi plaits

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21012023 - Live ambient jam 003

From the Hills Like Drops Of Blood EP.

https://manysmallfunctions.bandcamp.com/album/hills-like-drops-of-blood

hills like drops of blood

A few tracks I made the weekend of January 26-28, 2024. Please enjoy.

Spring

Demonstration of Kermit Mark III's tempo synced modulators. 4 channels are patched into the other modules while tempo division, channel amplitude, and waveform are performed. Other modules are Industrial Music Electronics Voice (Hertz Donut, Piston Honda, Bionic Lester), some reverb, and a persistent 80bpm kick drum.

Kermit mk3 tempo sync (with other modules)

Explorations Volume 1 is a collection of 13 tracks, each created start to finish in a single sitting. No second takes, no do-overs, just stream of consciousness music.

Exploration 40

OK This is a long one, but is quite dynamic.  It starts with a self generating ambient sound from Arturia's Pigments 2.  It then goes into a chill kind of jam with Taurus Pedals providing the low bass drone, the Korg Kronos providing the the electric piano sound and I played the Novation Summit for the lead.  This lead was improvised in one take.  It then goes back to full ambient where it fades from the Pigments self generating patch into a different self generating patch on the Hydrasynth.  It then kicks it up a notch with a nice long synth solo on the Moog Subsequent 37.  It ends with the Hydrasynth fading back into the Pigments patch.

Huge credit goes to Red Means Recording whose tutorial for creating self generating patches inspired this tune.  The Hydrasynth patch is based on his tutorial.

Koyasan

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