The new Bogaudio filters came out a while ago and I wondered what I could do with the FFB if I mapped a quantussy ring to all the controls. The results were interesting (and may emerge later) but then I decided to try using Father & Sun to send different BPM LFOs to different knobs. Then, some time later, I discovered toms. I didn’t really know about them before. Toms, eh? What a drum. Anyway, time passed and I worked on it and now it’s techno or something.
Feedback is appreciated (I think it goes a bit wrong in the middle).
More, sort of ambient, sort of minimalist, music. I mean, there is only one oscilator, that counts as minimalism right? Even if there’s a lot of noise it’s still minimalism? Surely? Anyway, here it is:
It’s more “trying to morph between 2 effects” but twice. Or something.
I’ve been experimenting with sync. The cv has been sitting there mysteriously on several VCOs without any obvious way of tell how it works. I mean, yes, you can use another VCO to set the pitch of the synced VCO but how does it do it? My research indicates that all it does is reset the waveform of the tuned VCO every time the tuning VCO rises. This seemed like an abusable process to me so here we are.
Syncer 1:
Syncer 3:
But, where is syncer 2? It wasn’t that interesting and the recording I made did not meet my (low) standards. There is a No. 4 in the works. It’s pretty buzzy but not interesting enough yet.
There is a part five but, even though I like it, there are annoyoing popping sounds after I render it in Blender. This is not acceptable.
Anyway, this one is about syncing the Bogaudio XCO with their standard VCO. Why the XCO? Because it has a phase control, something that I can’t find on other oscillators. Setting the phase of your waveform actually matters a lot more when you’re syncing than it does normally. Then I started treating phase like it was pulse width and it had some really interesting effects.
Well, hooray! Part 6 in my series of experiments with syncing is up and out:
So what happens if you sync your oscillator with Rings? And then put stereotypical techno drums on it? Syncer: 6 is what happens. I know I said that I’d take a break from syncing but this was there and nearly finished so I thought I’d get it out.
I keep working on and then sort of forgetting more “dancey” pieces and then making a more minimalist piece in a couple of days and getting it finished. Like this one:
I guess it’s hard to let go of something you’ve been working on for a while. Also my computer has developed s distracting squeaking noise. It’s probably a fan (annoying) or my hearing (maddening) or the sound of birds coming down my chimney (weird) but if it’s my hard disk (worrying) then I might be in trouble.
Please, if you succeeded in dancing then report back?
Anyway, the theme that developed with this jam was less reverb on synths and more on drums. I can’t tell whether it sounds good or not but I kind of dig it.
I don’t know why I wanted to finish another piece today but here it is:
It started with me following this @Omri_Cohen tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7_U4Dgln-0). I took some elements of it and it just grew from there. Sometimes I think my drones are a bit “samey” but Energy just sounds so good.
I know what you’re thinking: “Another patch less than a week after your last one! Don’t work yourself into the ground dag2099!”. I’m trying to increase the rate at which I release videos so here we are. Anyway, this is an ambient piece with phasing but, special twist, there is a bernouli gate involved. And chords. Here:
I was messing about with AM synthesis (an idea that I hadn’t really internalised until recently) when I came upon this sweet riff. Months later I have a finished piece:
There are some audible glitches at the end and it’s driving me a bit nuts. I really don’t know what to do about it at this point. Other than that it’s okay. really I want to be doing stuff that’s a bit more “moody” sounding but what comes out is what comes out.
Thx. It’s so long since I listened to that piece that I had to go back and listen again to know what it was. I did all those pieces so fast that I don’t really remember them.
Jesus, I need to get back too streaming so that I can force myself to do more work. In the meantime here is a small feedback piece with ambient characteristics.
I’m making a lot of pieces around the 8 minute mark but I’m beginning to think that it’s a bit long and that there is not sufficient variation to justify that length. Any opinions?
The amount for variation needed depends on how one listens to a piece, so I guess there aren’t wrong answers (only if you want to achieve a specific way of listening), more “static” tracks might work better as background music while doing other activities (where something with too much change would steal the listeners focus).
I find “quantizy” tracks to be a good fit for coding and what-not and I’d listen more actively to something that has more “concious” melody or dynamic structure.
For some reason my magic minute mark is either around 4 or 8 minutes.
Not a fan of the high rhythmic tone on this one, it maybe stands out too much but the rest is nice, love the washy synth in the background!
It’s a thing I do where I use the audio into a pitch to voltage module to set the pitch of the original module. You’d think it would just say the same but if you distort or filter the signal it changes the pitch.