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

See the scope in action on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIoWo4BklpI

My first experiment with the classic Todd Barton Krell patch.  Huge thanks and acknowledgement to JD Cramer for his most excellent recent tutorial series on this venerable modular patch and its methods and madness.  See those videos here:  https://www.youtube.com/user/jdanielc...  And here's is one of Todd Barton's basic Krell patch tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mUVR...

The main voice is the Brenso Yellow Oscillator's Final output combined with its Triangle output.  The wavefolder is being modulated by a Quadrax LFO.  Those are going into Vult Freak running the Lateralus algo in 6dB slope mode which has the Cutoff modded by the Maths Krell wave and Resonance just slightly modded by a Quadrax LFO.  Those are then routed to Mimeophon on which I do some manual modding while the patch is running - adjusting the mix and hitting the Flip button a couple of times to toggle between forward and reverse delays.  That's going into two channels in the mixer.  Those channels are being slowly panned by Quadrax LFOs to get some dynamic stereo effects.  

The second voice is Plaits in Wavetable mode with Morph being modded by smooth-random CV that's actually running quite fast.  The stereo outs are going into Bionic Lester with both filters set to somewhere between low pass and band pass.  Both cutoffs are modded by slow LFOs.  That's running into Chronoblob for a subtle, slow delay.  Those run into the mixer.

The third voice is Rings doing a plucky string Rings thing.  

All of this is running through the Strymon Starlab for that gorgeous reverb.

- The Maths Channel 4 Krell wave is multed and running into VCAs for Brenso and Plaits (of course).  
- Maths EOC is multed and driving the RND Step for S&H (of course).  Two of the +/- outs are running into both sides of the Disting EX in single mode, both running quantizers.  
- Brenso's pitch CV is set to C Minor Pentatonic and Plaits is set to C minor.  Those are running through Quadratt attenuverters to reign in the CV range. This does keep it mostly melodic, but did create some weird intervals.
- The EOC is driving the Strum input of Rings.  
- The Krell wave is triggering a Quadrax channel which is converting it to pulses that are driving the clock of the X channel on Rene 2 which is then providing the pitch CV for Rings which is also tuned to a C minor.

On the scope you see the Krell wave in green (it's controlling pitch changes that are quantized to scale by the Disting EX, volume envelopes and the Rings pluck and other stuff).  Brenso pitch is in blue, Plaits pitch is in red and the Rings pitch is in yellow.

This really was/is a ton of fun for exploring modular synthesis.  I'm very glad to have taken the time to learn the basics of it.

Cheers!

Two and a Half Krells - Short Version - Krell Patch w/ Brenso, Plaits, Rings, Strymon Starlab +++

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.

Two and a Half Krells - Short Version - Krell Patch w/ Brenso, Plaits, Rings, Strymon Starlab +++

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