It’s Sunday, time for an ambient jam! Things have changed a bit in the gear department. I decided to part with my Moog Grandmother. While I do love the sound of that synth, it just didn’t seem practical for the type of music I’m making. It took up a large section of the small table I have to work on. I found myself liking the sound of the smaller keyboard-less Mother 32 just as much and its patching options are more useful to me in my setup that is trending toward more modular components.
In place of the Grandmother, I now have a second Mother 32. Additionally, I picked up a used Eurorack case and a few more modules. Today’s jam is a sort-of generative piece that uses one new module, the Qu-Bit Bloom. It’s a so called “fractal sequencer” that is intriguing to the engineering part of my brain.
Patch Notes
Voices: Mother 32 x 2
Bloom sequencer drives both Mother 32 synths.
Bloom OUT 1 -> M32-1 VCO 1V/OCT
Bloom GATE 1 -> M32-1 GATE
Bloom OUT 2 -> M32-2 VCO 1V/OCT
Bloom GATE 2 -> M32 GATE
Chaos X -> MISO -> Bloom ROOT CV
M32-2 GATE -> EG TRIG
Chaos Z -> EG CV
EG OUT -> A-132 CV
A-132 SIG OUT -> M32-2 EXT AUDIO
M32-2 VCO PULSE -> A-132 SIG IN
The Tools
All my current 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 Subharmonicon
Moog Mother 32 (2)
Moog DFAM
Eurorack
Doepfer LC9 case
Doepfer A-145-4 LFO
Doepfer A-160-2 Clock Divider
Doepfer A-151 Seq Switch
Doepfer A-132 VCA
Doepfer A-148 S&H
Doepfer A-156 Quantizer
Zlob Chaos
Zlob Entropy
Super Synthesis EG Envelope
Eowave Zone B.F. LFO
Xodes LB5 Logic
Tiptop Audio MISO
ZeroScope Oscilloscope
Qu-Bit Bloom
WMD/SSF Atten (2)
After Later Audio Dice
Zoom MS-70CDR Effects Pedal
Eventide Blackhole Reverb Pedal
Eventide Ultratap Delay Pedal
Mackie Mix8 mixer
Zoom HS6 recorder
GarageBand (grudgingly)
Sunday Ambient #43