Happy Sunday! Here we are at ambient jam number 40. Wow, I can’t believe it! I might just make it for a full year of weekly recordings. No pressure on myself. I’ll keep doing the recordings as long as it brings joy and I have the time. Thanks to those of who have stuck around so far and offered encouragement.
We made it through a brutal ice storm this week. The Austin area looks like a war zone with all the tree limbs down. A lot of people have been without power for over 3 days now. Fortunately, our power held up. After a coating of up to 2 inches of ice just 3 days ago, the sun is shining today and the weather is mildly warm - just beautiful. I’ll be enjoying it while it is here, remembering to never take it for granted.
Patch Notes
Voices: Grandmother (GM), Subharmonicon (SH), DFAM
Zone B.F. stepped random LFO -> GM CLOCK IN
GM CLOCK OUT -> A-160-2 CLOCK IN
A-160-2 (/2) -> SH CLOCK IN
A-160-2 (/4) -> DFAM ADV/CLOCK
Chaos Z -> MISO -> GM CUTOFF IN
GM FILTER OUT -> A-132 SIG IN
A-132 SIG OUT -> GM VCA IN
EG OUT -> A-132 CV
GM GATE OUT -> EG TRIG
DFAM PITCH -> SH 1-2 FM AMT
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 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
ZeroScope Oscilloscope
Zoom MS-70CDR Effects Pedal
Eventide Blackhole Reverb Pedal
Eventide Ultratap Delay Pedal
Mackie Mix8 mixer
Zoom HS6 recorder
GarageBand (grudgingly)
Sunday Ambient #40