It’s a dreary Sunday here - damp, chilly, kinda gross outside. Perhaps it’s fitting that today’s jam is a bit dark and droning. I recorded this last month before Halloween. Maybe I was getting in the spooky spirit? Hope you like it and have a happy Sunday! Headphones on!
Podcast
Did you know you can listen to my music in your favorite podcast app? I didn’t until recently. Just click the Listen On dropdown menu on the track player and get a RSS link that will deliver fresh music to your podcast app once a week. How cool is that?
Patch Notes
Subharmonicon is main voice.
DFAM provides some percussive bell-ish sounds.
Mother 32 drones in and out (VCA on, occasionally changing notes.)
Grandmother runs a slow sequence that only serves to slowly change pitch of Subharmonicon VCO 2.
The Grandmother’s envelope is used to provide subtle pitch transition of Subharmonicon VCO2.
The Mother 32’s mixer provides a VCA for Grandmother’s envelope.
A-154-4 square LFO to A-160-2 (master clock)
Grandmother KB out to Mother 32 Mix2
Grandmother +Env Out to Mother 32 VC Mix Ctrl
Mother 32 VC Mix to Subharmonicon VCO 2
Subharmonicon trigger out to Grandmother Env Trigger In
Chaos Z to Mother 32 VCO Mod and VCF Cutoff
Chaos Y to Subharmonicon Cutoff
A-160-2 (/2) to Subharmonicon Clock
A-154-4 square LFO to DFAM Adv/Clock
DFAM Pitch to DFAM VCF Mod
DFAM VCF EG to VCA CV
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 A145-4 LFO
Doepfer A160-2 Clock Divider
Doepfer A-151 Seq Switch
Zlob Chaos
Tiptop Audio MISO
Zoom MS-70CDR Effects Pedals
Mackie Mix8 mixer
Zoom HS6 recorder
GarageBand (grudgingly)
Sunday Ambient #29