Hey, it’s Sunday! Time to kick out another ambient jam. We have some beautiful weather in Austin. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the summer heat isn’t here yet. I’ll take it.
Today I have a duet with my pair of Moog Mother 32 synths for your listening pleasure. They are sequenced by a new module, the After Later Audio Dice, which is a clone of Mutable Instruments’ Marbles. I’m experimenting a bit with some non-traditional sequencers and still getting to know them. It’s kind of relaxing to tweak parameters until I find something I like and run with it.
Patch Notes
Voices: Mother 32 x 2
Dice module drives both Mother 32 synths.
Dice T1 -> M32-1 GATE
Dice T2 -> M32-2 GATE
Dice X1 -> A-156 Ch1 CV IN
Dice X2 -> A-156 Ch2 CV IN
A-156 Ch1 CV OUT -> M32-1 VCO 1V/OCT
A-156 Ch2 CV OUT -> M32-2 VCO 1V/OCT
Chaos X -> Attenuator -> Dice Deja Vu CV
Chaos Y -> Attenuator -> Dice Rate CV
Chaos Z -> Attenuator -> M32-1 VCF CUTOFF
Entropy Infra -> Attenuator -> Dice Spread CV
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
After Later Audio Dice
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
Eowave Zone B.F. LFO
Qu-Bit Bloom
Super Synthesis EG Envelope
Tiptop Audio MISO
WMD/SSF Atten (2)
Xodes LB5 Logic
ZeroScope Oscilloscope
Zlob Chaos
Zlob Entropy
Zoom MS-70CDR Effects Pedal
Eventide Blackhole Reverb Pedal
Eventide Ultratap Delay Pedal
Mackie Mix8 mixer
Zoom HS6 recorder
GarageBand (grudgingly)
Sunday Ambient #44