Thanks @joyofresh for creating this plugin and letting me work with you on a new faceplate. For me at least, the new design makes it much easier to wrap my head around what is going on.
Again I can’t believe how easy and fun it is to come up with interesting melodies, harmonies, rhythms, etc., especially when I combine it with my Venom Rhythm Explorer.
Both Rhythm Explorer and LameJuis excel as live instruments with many options to tweak and take you to totally new realms. But they also work wonderfully as inspirations where you can quickly find a melody and rhythmic pattern you like and then build around that core until you have an entire song. All the settings and random seed values are stored with the patch so you can reopen the patch later and pick up exactly where you left off.
As soon as this new LameJuis release became available, I started a new patch from scratch. Within 10-15 minutes I had a really cool sequenced syncopated melody and harmonies that are the basis of the following track. Of course I spent hours experimenting and tweaking to get sequenced variations. For example, sequencing different co-mute pitch selections to vary the harmonies. Or changing the envelopes and/or delay effects to make the same lick sound completely different.
But often times the hard/intimidating part is getting that initial spark of an idea, and Rhythm Explorer with LameJuis really facilitates moving past that initial barrier.
This patch uses a beta version of my Venom plugin that has not yet been released. All the brown modules already exist in the library, and the red modules are new beta expansion modules for my various Venom mixers. The core of the patch will work fine without the beta modules, but the effects and much of the variation sequencing will be dysfunctional. To get the beta release you will need a github account and then you can download the beta version at https://github.com/DaveBenham/VenomModules/actions/runs/6440083780
NewVenomAndLameJuis.vcv (9.3 KB)
I hope others enjoy LameJuis (and Rhythm Explorer) as much as I have.