New ambient album, time to take a nap !

[TanaBarbier]

I wanted to share this album, it is a compilation of various montages of patches made to synth myself to sleep.

The choices I made to edit the recordings where done with the help of my dog, she is a huge fan of Stars of the Lid and Éliane Radigue : if she likes the track, she goes in front of the speakers and sleeps there for a while. So that was my way of knowing if a track was working or not !

[quantextkbd]

This song is perfect. Thank you for making it and sharing it. Its so beautiful and special. VCV Rack 2 is great. Oh by the way could you share what modules you used in the song to make it so beautiful and mysterious? Oscillators etc.?

[TanaBarbier]

Thank you very much ! I am glad you liked it !

Well there are a lot of different patches in there, basically I start a new patch from scratch and when I feel like it is doing enough I let it play until my laptop runs out of power, hoping I sleep by then… I really often use some of the same stuffs though : Plateau and Chronoblob for delays and reverb as sends in the mixer (MixMaster), a LOT of FM (Bogaudio’s FM-OP or Pigeon Plink), sometimes I want more VA sounding osc so I go for plain vanilla VCV’s VCO, or if I want a bit of weirdness some Instruo… I love Tides V2 as a voice and / or as a modulation source, and Rings and Elements with weird firmwares (using FM usually) as “effects”, often being FMed by the master of the mixer.

I love Orca and Hallucinogenia for sequencing but I guess that given the type of generative I use here it Is more likely a clock, Sample & Hold Eight (Mockba Modular) with a quantizer, some shift registers for long developing chords / phrases…

I know there is a Tesseract in every patch I make, for modulation sources, usually modulating its speeds via something like Cubic… I also love Shapemaster for long loooong automations changing for instance note probabilities, stuffs like that…

The one ingredient I remember is that once the edit is done and the “song” finished, I record it to a K7 and then record that back on the computer, because I love that sound for that kind of music… When it goes a slightly bit too much in the red it is gorgeous, IMO.

[chaircrusher]

This sounds like a lot of my ambient. I mean, I’m not claiming I invented this kind of Rack production, but there are similarities. I actually made a track in the last day inspired by listening to the fade

Chaircrusher Music Thread

Apparently releasing any new music on a single subject thread is the done thing around these parts – prior to now I’ve made a new post for each thing that I’ve wanted to share. So the inaugural message has an inaugural piece. This is ambient in the vein of Raymond Scott, in that it’s basically one patch that plays while I change the mix and tweak sequences. Patch file here I don’t know how evident it is, but I was enjoying turning JW GridSeq steps on and off as a way to change up the music. …

[TanaBarbier]

@chaircrusher

This sounds like a lot of my ambient. I mean, I’m not claiming I invented this kind of Rack production, but there are similarities.

Yes, indeed, I don’t think you or me could legimitaly claim responsibility for this kind of Rack production, or even outside of Rack… It just is a fun mental exercise to come with new ways of generating notes, sequences, variations etc… And it personally helps me getting asleep with is a big bonus.

@chaircrusher

I actually made a track in the last day inspired by listening to the fade

You mean listening to the album I posted ?

If yes that is cool lol. Is there a way to listen to it somewhere ? I did a bit of reading in the thread you mentioned but did not find any clue as to which one I should listen to.

[chaircrusher]

@TanaBarbier

If yes that is cool lol. Is there a way to listen to it somewhere ?

It’s in the post I linked to but here it is again.