It’s Sunday, time for an ambient jam! Things have changed a bit in the gear department. I decided to part with my Moog Grandmother. While I do love the sound of that synth, it just didn’t seem practical for the type of music I’m making. It took up a large section of the small table I have to work on. I found myself liking the sound of the smaller keyboard-less Mother 32 just as much and its patching options are more useful to me in my setup that is trending toward more modular components.
In place of the Grandmother, I now have a second Mother 32. Additionally, I picked up a used Eurorack case and a few more modules. Today’s jam is a sort-of generative piece that uses one new module, the Qu-Bit Bloom. It’s a so called “fractal sequencer” that is intriguing to the engineering part of my brain.
Patch Notes
Voices: Mother 32 x 2
Bloom sequencer drives both Mother 32 synths.
* Bloom OUT 1 -> M32-1 VCO 1V/OCT
* Bloom GATE 1 -> M32-1 GATE
* Bloom OUT 2 -> M32-2 VCO 1V/OCT
* Bloom GATE 2 -> M32 GATE
* Chaos X -> MISO -> Bloom ROOT CV
* M32-2 GATE -> EG TRIG
* Chaos Z -> EG CV
* EG OUT -> A-132 CV
* A-132 SIG OUT -> M32-2 EXT AUDIO
* M32-2 VCO PULSE -> A-132 SIG IN
The Tools
All my current 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 for normalization and creating a shareable audio file.
* Moog Subharmonicon
* Moog Mother 32 (2)
* Moog DFAM
* Eurorack
* Doepfer LC9 case
* Doepfer A-145-4 LFO
* Doepfer A-160-2 Clock Divider
* Doepfer A-151 Seq Switch
* Doepfer A-132 VCA
* Doepfer A-148 S&H
* Doepfer A-156 Quantizer
* Zlob Chaos
* Zlob Entropy
* Super Synthesis EG Envelope
* Eowave Zone B.F. LFO
* Xodes LB5 Logic
* Tiptop Audio MISO
* ZeroScope Oscilloscope
* Qu-Bit Bloom
* WMD/SSF Atten (2)
* After Later Audio Dice
* Zoom MS-70CDR Effects Pedal
* Eventide Blackhole Reverb Pedal
* Eventide Ultratap Delay Pedal
* Mackie Mix8 mixer
* Zoom HS6 recorder
* GarageBand (grudgingly)
