Noodlings of Lars

More playing with the Valley plugin. This laid back piece is “Dexter Enjoys a Day in the Sunshine”.

This time I’m playing Dexter as 4 individual oscillators, and Interzone is playing the occasional background swells.

All notes are supplied by Bohingler from NYSTHI, and they are quantized by Erwin from Aepelzen.

The Resonator, in “Sympathetic Strings” mode, is playing the occasional strumming of strings, being triggered by the Burst! module from Aepelzen.

Enjoy!

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Very cool project. Remind me Kitaro music.

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Nice composition, a few modules I’ve never seen before! Liking the burst and the vibrato violin

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More really good music from Lars… If there are some people out there who have never taken the time to listen to your music then, now’s as good a time to start, than ever :slight_smile: Really enjoyable and very interesting to listen to and understand as always. Thanks Lars for all you do… Cheers, Nigel

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Hey, thanks very much Nigel, that’s very kind. And may I say- Thank you for all that you have done for the Rack community!

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I’m still in the Valley and this is “Dexter Goes To Berlin”.

The constant swelling FM voice is the A voice from Dexter, modulated by Caudal. Notes are provided from Alan through the Quantum.

The brighter of the two short voices in the ongoing sequence is the B voice of Dexter, and the darker of them is the FM-OP. They are both provided a simple 4-note sequence from Seq-4, which is run through Evolution and Quantum, and finally treated to some delay with the Dual Delay from MSM. They are offset by using respectively Out 1 and Out 2 of Evolution, and slightly different delay times.

A note on Evolution: This is a bloddy genius module! I thoroughly regret discarding it early on because I didn’t understand it, but re-watching the Klirrfactor tutorial made it more clear. It’s a surprisingly versatile module in such a small package, and it’s heavenly for someone like me, who likes slowly changing and morphing sequences. Pairing it with Quantum just makes it even better. Fantastic module; well done and thanks to Martin Lueders!

I think the volume is a bit low on this one, so it should probably be played loud. Enjoy!

The patch is here if anyone want’s to play with it:
https://patchstorage.com/dexter-goes-to-berlin/

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Another great one! :sunglasses:

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Thank you maestro!

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Oh yes- really nice patch - love the slowly evolving theme and chords, gentle modulations going on with Dexter, definitely be having a play with this patch - thanks for sharing!

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Hey, thanks a bunch Al! Very glad you like it, and you’re welcome!

Excellent patch Lars! Those voices, chords, & melodies sound so nice!

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Thanks a bunch Adi! Glad you liked it.

Last patch of my self-imposed Valley challenge - This is “Amalgamations In The Interzone”, and it basically includes all the modules in the Valley plugin.

The lead sequence is a self-generative thing, playing the A and B voices of Dexter in full FM glory. Topograph supplies the rhythm and Xycloid supplies the raw note material, which is then slowly morphed by Evolution into an ever evolving 5-note sequence quantized to D# Pentatonic.

The first Interzone is playing the mid-bass, cycling up and down, and the ouput is suitably distorted by Amalgam in ringmod2 mode.

The second Interzone plays the bass and the Macro Oscillator 2 in “Analog hi-hat” mode supplies the high-pitched “claps”.

Also, for the first time I’m emplying a limiter module in Rack, to get the volume up which has been a problem. That’s the LMTR from Bogaudio, and my expert usage consists of cranking the Out Gain knob to 5 db. It seems to have worked fine and not destroyed the sound. Perhaps it’s taken the edge of the dynamics, but that’s what these things do, so it sounds acceptable.

Enjoy!

The patch is here for your destructive pleasures:
https://patchstorage.com/amalgamations-in-the-interzone/

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Happy Birthday Lars! :slight_smile:

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Thanks very much Jim! :blush:

Sounds great Lars!

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My humble tribute to Brian Eno. A musical genius whose groundbreaking work has inspired countless musicians, and certainly had a profound impact on the development of my own musical universe. He pioneered and named the ambient genre and for that he deserves a lot of credit.

This is my first play with Foundry which is quite a beast of a sequencer.
There’s two FM voices from Dexter and one from the little NYSTHI FM operators.
And there’s a Choir VST from Spitfire LABS in Host.

This one is for the slowheads. Enjoy!

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Wow Lars, you been holding out on us! Incredible sounds!

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That was fantastic!

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Thanks very much Jim, I’m very happy you like it! The perfectionist took over whilst I was looking away, endlessly fiddling with this patch, and that’s never good, so I had to boot him out and finish the damn thing. I did learn a lot in the process though and that’s the important thing :slight_smile:

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