Here is my first real attempt at stop motion / green screen VCV Rack soundscape creation. I had a lot of fun making it. Give it a listen, and a like would be proper! Let me know what you think! Thanks!
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Thatās brilliant. Well done!!
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Thank you!
Really nice tune Jim! And I really like those videos, theyāre very funny 
Gotta get me some of those Martian amps, they sound great.
Thank you Lars, I had a box of these 4" speakers left over from my robot kit business. A few minutes with CorelDRAW and my laser and viola 1:10th scale amp stacks! lol then I found some cool 2" speakers on amazon, so I ordered some up.
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Here is my latest patch, an entry to the Dreamworld Plus One Challenge. Iāve added some notes to explain the patch along the way. Thereās an easter egg literary poem around 2 minutes in. haha!
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I made a little slide show. Iāve been experimenting with adding robot voices to my program. https://www.instagram.com/p/DAM5WZ3O0Od/
This is a redo of an older patch. I changed the lead into a more structured routine, and added some subtle drums. Three space robots walked into a bar and started playing this. This is a slow but groovy rhythm using Palette, a clone of Mutable Instruments Plaits for the guitar voices. Vult Flame adds the Marshall stack character. VCV Delay and an LFO creates a killer reel flanging effect. Squinky Labs Seq++ provides the backing rhythm, and Orange Line DeJavu creates the lead gates and notes. Robot sounds created by Clouds in Pitch shifter / Time stretcher mode. This soundscape will be used for a stop motion animated video featuring the Space Robots from Outer Space!
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Here is the video promised in the above post. This video tells a story about the search for an elusive three dimensional toroidal attractor chaotic low frequency oscillator! (Sapphire Lark) The forming of the Space Robot Band, and almost running out of gas!
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Great track and video! That bass grooves like āAutobahnā in outer space 
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Very cool Jim. That guitar is pretty convincing.
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that is so awesome! I really enjoyed that!
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Oh man, I really got a kick out of seeing Sapphire Lark featured as an alien artifact in your robot journey, equations and all. I was trying to keep its origin secret, but now everyone knows robots discovered it in the Andromeda Galaxy.
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I originally planned for them to discover a guitar or unusual instrument, but as I was editing the video you posted a video on youtube on Lark, and I changed the story. Itās so cool, especially when paired with Tricorder. I am already planning how to use it in the next video. thanks for what you do!
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thank you!
thanks!
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Thanks Lars!
nice! Iām sure you know it, but Seq++ can make sequences of any length at all, it just defaults to 2 bars of 4.
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I love a bit of space rock! Cool track and the video was fun too. Fair play to anyone with the patience for stop frame animation!
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This patch started out by duplicating a patch by Don Cross using Lark as the main modulation source. I set Slips to D minor pentatonic and slowed the BPM to 80. I used the SurgeXT wavetable oscillator set to guitar high. I added reel flanging effect and it really started to take shape. I then decided to add a second channel to Slips and separate the two channels as right and left stereo. Thatās when my brain said Whoa! So I cleaned it up a bit and pressed record. I didnāt notice that the Tricorder had stopped rotating, at all, until I had uploaded it. lol Later I tried to recreate the recording but the sequencer being quite random just didnāt have the same feel. Oh wellā¦ Thatās the nature of this sometimes. I suppose I could replace the waveform in the video, it wouldnāt sync with the sounds, but would you really notice? But I donāt think you can edit the video on youtube without removing the current one, which I donāt want to do. 
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This just screams ambient Black Sabbath, Planet Caravan. Itās a slow and easy going patch with only one oscillator voice, yet it produces a wide range of sounds including, bass guitar, overdriven lead guitar, bongo drums, flute, and arpeggios derived from reel flanging artifacts. The waveform illustrates the three dimensional toroidal attractor chaotic low frequency oscillator! (Sapphire Lark) This Lark oscillator effects the waveform morphing, accented notes, a low pass filter cutoff, and when the sequencer is refreshed. An LFO fades in and out a more overdriven sound. Some of this music will be used in a Space Robots from Outer Space adventure video. I recycled some parts of a patch by Don Cross. @CosineKitty
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