Happy Sunday and Happy New Year! Wow, where did 2022 go? The older I get, the faster time seems to advance. Here’s some upbeat ambient to kick off 2023. I did a couple of different takes of the sequence, trying different timbres. So, you get a bonus track to check out if you like the first. The bonus track is a bit more percussive.
Bonus Track
Podcast
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Patch Notes
Voices: Mother 32 (M32), Grandmother (GM), DFAM, Subharmonicon (SH)
* Grandmother (arp)
* Mother 32 (randomized sequence)
* DFAM and Subharmonicon with percussive notes
* Eventide Blackhole for reverb
* GM CLOCK OUT -> A-160-2 CLOCK IN
* DFAM PITCH -> NOISE LEVEL, VCF EG -> VCA CV
* A-160-2 (/2, /5) -> A-151 IN
* A-160-2 (/7) -> A-151 TRIGGER
* A-160-2 (/8) -> SH CLOCK IN
* A-151 OUT -> M32 TEMPO
* CHAOS X -> MISO -> GM ENV AMT IN
* CHAOS Y -> MISO -> M32 VCF RES
* CHAOS Z -> MISO -> M32 VCF CUTOFF
* ENTROPY INFRA -> MISO GM CUTOFF IN
* M32 GATE -> EG TRIGGER
* EG OUT -> A-132 CV1
* M32 VCO PULSE -> A-132 SIG IN
* A-132 SIG OUT -> M32 EXT AUDIO
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 Pedal
* Eventide Blackhole Reverb Pedal
* Eventide Ultratap Delay Pedal
* Mackie Mix8 mixer
* Zoom HS6 recorder
* GarageBand (grudgingly)
