This is my first effort on my modular system to be published to YouTube and my first blog post providing some background on the piece.
This is a slightly different version – the former does not have the formant drone (Briads), while this one does:
Synopsis
Here is a synopsis of what’s in use and how its hooked up:
Marbles provides the master clock via trigger out “t2”. Master clock goes to Noise Engineering Clep Diaz for pitch modulation of Mutant Clap, and to AMS Rotating Clock Divider, with div 5 and div 8 sent to Klavis Logic “and” to generate a trigger every 40 clocks. That goes to a Doepfer ADSR, which then goes to an att/offset and then goes to the Clouds “pos” input which plays a motif captured from a Moog Subsequent 37 (5-7 DR Lead). The master clock also goes to Branches, which is set to occasionally trigger the formant voice on Braids. The Mutant Clap passes through a WMD DPLR (spread modulated by Marbles) and 2HP Verb. Additional ambience provided by Eventide Space (Earthhall) and Timefactor (ModDly).
Here are some photos and additional notes to help understand how the individual modules were set up.
Elements; All three stimulators together with a medium envelope.
Mutant Clap: Some modulation on pitch…
Braids and Tip Top Z4000: Modulation on timbre to get a distinctive range of articulations. Trigger from Branches goes to Tip Top Z4000 ADSR, which in turn goes to VCA.
Marbles: I turned it on and started patching. I set the rate to div4 to get this big open sound. I fiddled a bit without resort to manual, and liked what I heard!
Clock processing: The clock is going to a passive mult where it’s split to the AMS RCD, the Cleo Diaz, and the Branches. The Klavis is ANDing the div5 and div8 to get a gate every 40 clocks – this triggers an ADSR, which in turn gets inverted and offset and then goes to Clouds “POS” input to play the motif. The Branches output is set to occasionally trigger an ADSR which goes to a VCA gating the Braids.
Doepfer A-140 ADSR: The ADSR provides a very slow CV to the Clouds.
The WMD DPLR and 2HP Verb provide delay and reverb for the clap. The delay spread is modulated.
Clouds is set to capture 16 seconds of input. The phrase doesn’t sound as long because it’s played back faster via the POS cv input. The result was entirely serendipitous – what you hear is quite different (and more mysterious) than what I put in :).
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Homarne 