1976 Really Delayed - A 100% AE Modular Track

Many thanks, moruial, you're very kind   I'm pleased that you enjoy it, I have enjoyed incorporating the AE Modular into what I do and it has provided me with exactly what I wanted - something with which to experiment. I wish you the same.

pol, I do use it on outputs other than the triangle and using the 2SIGNALAMP to balance against the Drive control of the WAVEFOLDER does give some interesting results. As with all of these things, you can try out something new. I did that with the attenuated LFO modulating the Shape CV. It was a fine balancing act, as I said, as it did drop out sometimes so I had to find the sweetspot and adjust the output on the 2ATT/CV to get just what I wanted.

I don't pretend to know what I'm doing, but I do know what I like to hear 

Thanks, admin  

Ratcheting is a sequencer technique invented by Tangerine Dream in the 70's - or at least it was a huge part of their sound. It's a simple concept, like all of these things, but takes a little bit of thinkin to implement. It's the rapid re-triggering of a note within a sequence - ideally using a musically-relevant interval so that it jumps in between the syncopated delays. For a good example, try Stratosfear by Tangerine Dream.

There are many ways to do it and robertlanger has honoured us by providing most of them with his modules. I have tried many ways of doing it, this time I used the re-triggering effect from the TRIQ164, once I found out how to access it. So, I fed the clock to TRIQ164 and also directly to the OR2X4, then the "Or"-ed output went to the 2ENV to trigger the 2VCA. This meant that the VCA was triggering when it saw either the output from the TRIQ164 or the clock itself. I then set up the steps of the TRIQ164 to have repeat on them and selected them on/off as I wanted to add re-trigger on the relevant steps. Then it was a case of fine-tuning the decay on the 2ENV and the repeat value on the TRIQ164 to make it musical.

I also used the same clock, but through the DIVIDER to modulate both the NYLE filter and the shapeCV of the WAVEFOLDER - both using an LFO and passing both through the 2ATT/CV. It was a lot easier than it sounds and really made the sound move - a bit too much at times, where it disappeared.

To get the smooth sound, it was combination of the slow setting on the 2ENV and using a shimmer setting on my reverb pedal to blur the sound a bit. It almost becomes polyphonic when combined like that. There was also some tape delay from another pedal, again to blur and warm up the sound a bit.

Hopefully that was useful and/or not too detailed. It's difficult to know how much is useful   For me, the AE Modular is helping me to realise the sounds that are in my head, and have been there for a long time. Other instruments can sometimes do this, or get close, but this modular helps me to feel like a sonic explorer and for such a decent price.

That's a nice multi-effects pedal. Looking at the manual, I see that they reference some classic pedals and you can chain up to six effects - I imagine ony one of each type, but I could be wrong. That will certainly get you a long way into sound experimentation and for a decent price.

I started buying guitar effects pedals (for my guitar) and now have quite a few that do a good job, so you won't go wrong in following this route. I do have a small portable rack with studio effects that I used to use live, but that doesn't get used much any more since I discovered the versatility of stomp boxes   Once you have a few, you can set up parallel routings and move them around quite easily. I did think about one of these, but I can do most things with a small mixer and some imagination.

This track is wonderful. So nice, in fact, it has tipped the scales and convinced me that ordering an AE modular system is an excellent idea.

My vote for best track on the forum, so far.....

p.s. spacedog
thanks for the tip on the tonelib zoom editor... i didn't know that existed!

You really swept me up on this track... and your transitioning at around the 6 minute mark was wonderful !

Sound like somebody's gonna have fun

Hey! This is great! Thanks for sharing this! I love it.