I thought after completing three songs and getting deeper into a fourth that I should share some of the sonic artifacts I've recorded along the way.
Ambient, dark electro, experimental minimalism, improvised corners of where I'm sourcing my sound library for constructing studio tracks.
#craque #ambient #idm #electronica #ExtendedGuitar #ExperimentalMusic #ModularSynth #EurorackModular #SynthDIY
A quick minute from my grimy filtered imprecise Shepard Tone patch.
Wiard Anti-Oscillator
2x Intellijel Dixie
Bubblesound VCOb
Intellijel Quad VCA
Doepfer A-143-1 Complex EG/LFO
DinSync Sara VCF
Richter Wogglebug (Make Noise)
Pico DSP
Today I am patching a combo I finally can achieve: a Shepard Tone, the sonic equivalent of a barbershop pole. 
To do it entirely on an analog modular synth, I have the mighty Doepfer A-143-1 quad EG/LFO, with each chained to the next, and separately patched to the CV inputs on an Intellijel Quad VCA. Four individual triangle VCOs are sent to the VCA inputs, so they fade in and out with the cycle of the quadrature LFO. The same signal coming from the Doepfer channels is fed simultaneously to the 1v/8va input of each VCO
matching that channel on the VCA.
The effect happens as each VCO is changed in pitch according to the LFO at the same time it is being faded in with the VCA by the same LFO shape. As the next LFO fires it fades the next VCO the same way, one after the other like an ouroboros.
With each quadrant of the LFO represented (+/- sign/cosign), the continuous sound you hear is a constant rising tone. Put through a bandpass filter to fine-tune the audible range, the result is an audio illusion: the pitch of the sound seems to always be going forever upward.
I promised some Ferrous sounds! I hope it works.
This is part of a patch I'm working for the third track. Layers of some looped figures with a deep synth ground drone holding up yawning higher pitched guitar tones coming from the Ferrous and through some delay.
Another sneak peek at album progress. This makes two so far! Going for six maybe?
I hear myself pulling roots up and rearranging them among the flowers of things I've learned over the past 30 years of creating songs.
I'm finding myself. Learning new things about my musical brain that I might have left behind. It feels strangely more professional, and everything is recorded from my studio of instruments.
Really like the direction I feel things taking me as I remove masks.
I can take the time to listen for myself.
had to try out some video with the audio interface I hoped would work for quick shots on the new phone, and it does!
squished into this psychedelic glitchtro funk while testing the recording chain into Live12 (it works great).
#craque #GlitchtroFunk #ModularSynth #EurorackModular #idm #ExperimentalMusic @synths
New arrangement. Both Pulses and Voltages working off the Benjolin2. Success!!
Last night's patch on a brand new module config for this case. Time for a refactor, the pulses on the benjolin2 works so well that I need to see if my Voltages will also.
I learned a couple of things: 1. Requisite variety helps me decide what modules belong together, but not without actually trying to build a useful patch/function; and 2. I use an adjacent mental pattern for building the interactions between modules that I do for using interfaces in Go.
Open heart surgery on the ArtBox synth welcoming the new Benjolin 2 - seen here connected to a Pulses!
The 16n is just marvelous! I can really get fine with the fader controls on anything that takes a voltage. It is a dimension of being able to play a huge patch at your fingertips.
Fuck it, I used some befaco knurlies on the edges (because this can be mounted and powered in Eurorack) and saved the matching screws for the faceplate. I think I like it this way!
Tests all 100%!
16n is ready to roll!!
Best CV controller keyboard that isn't a piece of plastic shit that will fall apart in a year?
