VOLTERGARDE is a series of experimental sound design in vcv rack
main brains of this patch are two hairpick comb filters from frozen wasteland and MAZE sequencer from stoermelder driven by clock 1. Rampage handles modulation / vcas, Music Thing : Turing Machine plays bass driven by a second clock that also moves MAZE.
GEODESICS energy and A.I Macro oscillator 2 fed by VCV random and Audible Instruments utilities triggered by Stoermelder HIVE that also triggeres snare and claps
Rampage / Black octasource on modulations. by MAZE
Erica Blackwave VCO and VULT Basal are accompanying voices.
Various ADSR and parameters modulated by Bifaco Rampage, TriLFO and Black Octasource
Effects by Portland Weather / Hair pick (Frozen Wasteland) Chronoblob2 delay and Valley
The quad LFO is my go to as an LFO source for random smooth Cvs, s+h and other changing shapes (self patched and from PEQ outputs) .
This is the main modulator patched into both the oscillator and the Frequency CV input of the PEQ6 (with varied freq and freq cv attenuation) . PEQ outputs are then haphazardly patched back into both the oscillator and the quad LFO in a kind of feedback loop.
The oscillator is highly unstable and i’ve used the freeze button at several points to give the composition a ‘break’ and let it run in a loop or single tone before re-entering noisy, glitchy ‘episodes’ I’ve also muted/unmuted the three outputs of the oscillator mixer channels to vary the sound and timbres (with two channels panned opposite each other)
There was no structure planned for the composition.