I know 
Yeah, that’s a scale change. It’s difficult to “stop the world” in an orderly fashion, in a generative patch. Let me know if you have any suggestions, I want to learn.
Does the choice of scales help? Or how different one scale is to the next?
Not sure. My feeling is more that it simply has to do with the notes that Galaxy happens to play when the scale changes, combined with what the first few notes of the new scale happens to be. But I guess it calls for some experimentation.
This patch rocks Lars! really nice work!
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digging this too Lars, I think you paired two really great modules together. Not sure if you’ve tried yet but it can be interesting to take the chords from Galaxy to play a pad or something and also run the individual outputs thru a switch to get a nice arpeggio going with another voice. Never thought of using a quantizer with it like you did, but now I think that could be a great way to eliminate certain notes that you don’t want. Much exploring to do!
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Thanks Adi!
Do you mean polyphonically, using multiple outputs from Galaxy and multiple VCO’s?
Not quite sure what you mean, can you give a quick mockup example screenshot?
This is where Quantum Multiverse shines, with its multiple inputs and outputs, the spread-knob and individual settings for how to transpose for each input, all of which I’ve used for effect in the patch. I recommend watching Omri’s recent tutorial on it, which is quite good.
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I got inspired by Martin Lueders’ wonderful “Edgars Dream” patch, so this is me playing around with three mellotron samples in VCV Rack.
You’ll find Edgars Dream here:
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Hey Lars! I’m not sure how to respond to single statements like you did, but in order: yes, polyphonically using the Galaxy outputs and with different VCO’s(like an EV3 or something convenient). for the arpeggio, here’s a patch that is a basic use of what I meant Galaxy2.vcv (11.0 KB) . and I really love Multiverse, used it a bunch of times and thought I knew every control on it, but honestly I never even tried this spread knob, I’ll have to experiment or watch Omri’s tutorial again which I’m sure I’ve seen but maybe spaced on that part. Looking forward to listening to your latest patches!
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Thanks Adi! Will be away for a couple of days but look forward to try it.
I like that Lars. That classic mellotron sound. The layers sit nicely.
The pitch shifting works pretty well. I’ve done it that way in some of my earlier tracks. It’s much easier than the indexed table technique I posted in the recent video, but you lose using the actual sample for the note - which is OK and may not be significant. But it does make a difference if you want a higher note of long duration - at two octaves above the 7 second mellotron samples will last 2 seconds
I need to spend some time with the new Arturia mellotron and hear a comparison to these techniques.
I see chronoblob made an appearance too 
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Thanks Paul!
I’d love to hear the outcome of your comparison!
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So far i’ve tried 4 mellotron samples in Arturia’s Analog lab, and i’ve got to say, they are really awesome. If you guys have the money, go for it ! Also the fact that you can load your own samples and give them ‘’ the mellotron vibe ‘’ makes the possibilities endless !!!
If i wasn’t saving for some hardware synths i would get it ASAP 
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Thanks, I will try it out.
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Ah! Now I see what you mean. Note inputs to a sequential switch, and then randomly selecting between the inputs. It’s like holding a chord on a guitar, and randomly picking the strings in the chord. Very nice technique, thanks for sharing that! And very nice use of the Resonator by the way… it reminds me how I’m in no way finished with exploring that module. Lovely patch actually.
My entry to the Very Cool Patch Challenge 32 (VCP-32).
It’s a sort of organ cantata’ish piece (?), that turns somewhat bubbly midway.
I’ve used Ben’s patch unaltered, except for the addition of the master recorder.
There’s three voices:
- The bass is played by Cosmic and pitched by the Volts expander.
- The mid-voice is played by Macro Oscillator 2, pitched by Alan.
- The bubbly sequence on top is played by Basal and is sequenced by Entropia, running a mixed blue and yellow sequence. At various time in the piece it’s clocked by 1x, 2x or 4x.
Lazy Susan is quantizing all three voices, and the Dual Dual LPG provides an envelope for all of them. Caudal provides modulation for Basal and Macro Oscillator 2. One of the Walk modules modulates the harmonics of Macro Oscillator 2 and the other provides some gentle transposition for the sequence of Basal, via the Falls attenuator. The Segment Generator provides an LFO for gentle amplitude modulation of the foreground sequence.
The patch is here:
https://patchstorage.com/entropic-organ-bubbles-vcp-32/
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Thanks Lars. I like the layering, and that organ voicing.
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Thanks Paul, glad you like it!
My second entry to VCP-32
I finally got some quality time with the marvellous Chronoblob2 delay from Alright Devices, and it’s a beauty!
In this patch I have Macro Oscillator 2, in Two operator FM mode, playing the picked strings on top through the Chronoblob2, and the Cosmic oscillator playing the bass.
The Chronoblob2 is frozen, playing an endless delay loop of picked strings, with the live voice from Macro Oscillator 2 playing on top of it.
Macro Oscillator 2 is pitched from Alan and the Cosmic is pitched from a sequence running in the Segment Generator, which also supplies three LFO’s modulating the Chronoblob2 and the Cosmic VCO.
I debated whether I should enter this patch to the contest at all, since it’s such a simple patch, but I figured - hey, if I like it someone out there probably will as well, right?
You will find the patch here. Note: When you open the patch it will not sound the same as the recording, since the delay loop is not saved:
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Welcome to the Chronoblob club
I like the patch
Thanks Paul, yeah… It’s a very nice module for sure.
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