=== vcp challenge #76: one voice ===

Hi all,

well here’s mine. I decided to base the voice on the macro oscillator and make use of its different algorithms. I’m not exctly a friend of random sequences, thus I built a simple song of 4 sequences myself. Of course I’m not Beethoven. Controlling the parameters turned out to require lots of sequencing. I`m a computer scientist and love to work with binary counters as a means of sequencing!

In the end, not the typical piece I’d normally do, but quite a nice challenge.

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The patch: https://hidrive.ionos.com/lnk/CWigGdUe#file

You know that the rhythm of you melody is not surprising

You can do better

Pretty good. I’ll definitely check out this patch myself :slight_smile:

Yeah probably need to add something or rather built a noise rhythm piece :slight_smile:

For example:

1100.0011.0110.0111

I don’t know if this rythm is correct…But it’s a simplification

On PC,I have begun with FruityLoops

Oooh - I would love a chance to experience playing a Continuum some day!

If you’re ever near Lummi Island, WA, it would be great to jam, and you can try it out.

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Awesome, glad it inspired you, cheers! :slight_smile:

I like it - it was driving me crazy for a while because it was reminding me of something that I couldn’t place. I finally figured it out - there is a Radio Head EP that I listened to for a while that sonically has some very similar elements. But of course I can’t remember the name of the piece or the EP.

On first listen I thought this was nice, but I was not particularly drawn to the piece. But after reading the @pachde post, I tried improvising along side with my Dm native American flute, and it was ever so enjoyable. Thank you!

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I very much enjoyed this one. Great to hear from you again. It has been a while.

After a lot of experimenting, I’ve settled with this, for now:

The sort of main features: Dark Energy, some oldschool-ish usage of the Doepfner A-124 and time switching of a Signal Delay. Wish I’d performed some bits more coherently, especially bringing Clouds in and out, but oh well.


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So I’m on sick leave and have plenty of time for f*+ing around with music :blush: Another try on the 76 challenge.

Make sure you can hear the deep voices :slight_smile:

Have a great day all.

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The patch: HiDrive

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I love this. Am I right in thinking that the noise is used purely for modulation and triggers, not audio?

Gorgeous. That shimmering in the background is so beautifully subtle.

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The noises are just a independent sources of random numbers that are sampled by the sample & hold module and are used to adjust the rise and fall times of the rampage (and the pitches of the oscillators and the filter). The trigger for sampling are the end of cycle of the rampage.

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Wonderful :slight_smile:

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Another long form ambient entry - something I posted independently a month ago, but I think it fits beautifully with this theme. I hesitated to enter this because again I use a Venom stereo VCA MIX 4, but again it is mixing three highly correlated signals to create a single voice that runs through one VCA and one VCF.

The star of this piece is the Geodesic Dark Energy - I adore the sounds this complex oscillator produces. Within it has two oscillators that I drive with two different S…L…O…W “melodies”. But each oscillator frequency modulates the other (as well as themselves) to create two highly correlated outputs. In addition they combine for a ring modulated third output, It is these three signals that I combine into a single stereo voice - ring modulated in the center at a constant level, and one FM output to the left, and the other to the right, both with varying levels.

Proteus provides the autogenerative driving "melodies’ at 40 and 10 BPM, and six Bogaudio Walk modules modulate the FM depths, left and right FM levels, and filter cutoff and resonance. Lastly a third clock runs through Venom Bernoulli Switch in Bernoulli Gate configuration to randomly trigger the VCA. Really pretty simple. Oh yeah, some Dawesome Love FX to add some additional magic.

The recording has 6 “acts” (timestamps in the YouTube comment) where I use different permutations of harmonic minor or pentatonic minor, coupled with either both VCOs at audio rates, or one or the other VCO at LFO rates.

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