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)
Sunday Ambient #33