It’s Sunday and that means it’s time for a new ambient jam. I’m going dark and droning this time with some deep percussion sounds mixed in. All of my Moog voices were used, even the often chaotic Subharmonicon. I enjoyed pulling them all into a nice mellow piece.
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Patch Notes
Voices: DFAM, Subharmonicon (SH), Mother 32 (M32), Grandmother (GM)
M32 plays drone on E, fading in and out through the cycling EG envelope
GM plays drone on B, with its envelope triggered by A-145-4 LFO
* DFAM VCF EG -> DFAM VCF CV
* A-145-4 (square) -> GM ENV TRIGGER IN
* A-160-2 (/2) -> SH CLOCK IN
* A-160-2 (/5) -> DFAM ADV/CLOCK
* CHAOS Y -> MISO -> M32 VCF CUTOFF
* CHAOS Z -> MISO -> SH CUTOFF
* ENTROPY OUT -> SH VCO 1
* ENTROPY INFRA -> MISO -> ENTROPY IN
* SH TRIGGER OUT -> ENTROPY HOLD
* EG OUT -> A-132 CV1
* M32 VCO PULSE -> A-132 SIG IN
* A-132 SIG OUT -> M32 EXT AUDIO
* M32 GATE OUT -> EG TRIGGER
* EG EOC -> M32 GATE IN
The Tools
All my gear is below. Not everything is necessarily used for each recording. I record live to my HS6 recorder. I have a DAW-less setup, although I do use GarageBand only for normalization and creating a shareable audio file.
* Moog Grandmother
* Moog Subharmonicon
* Moog Mother 32
* Moog DFAM
* Eurorack
* Doepfer A-145-4 LFO
* Doepfer A-160-2 Clock Divider
* Doepfer A-151 Seq Switch
* Doepfer A-132 VCA
* Zlob Chaos
* Zlob Entropy
* Super Synthesis EG Envelope
* Eowave Zone B.F. LFO
* Xodes LB5 Logic
* Tiptop Audio MISO
* Zoom MS-70CDR Effects Pedals
* Mackie Mix8 mixer
* Zoom HS6 recorder
* GarageBand (grudgingly)
