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)
Sunday Ambient #35