My AE Modular recordings :)

#52weeksofsound week 42

'The Orchestra' is back to this:

• Tangible Waves AEModular Starter Rack 2 + SEQ16 + 4I/O;
• Sennheiser e912 boundary mic;
• Behringer UFX1604 mixer

I've been playing with this patch for most of the week… early on I was in the house (who isn't?) and a lorry must have gone past because there was a delicious low rumble as 'something' resonated. So I started playing with the modular. This is the product of multiple unsynchronized modulations (2 LFOs plus the envelope geenerators self-triggering), modulating the filter cut off, delay time and envelope attack/decay times. There are no VCAs in the audio path, so there's always a low rumble going on.

As it's a Friday, the building site behind the house is active, which adds some interesting interjections to the mix I think!

Reverb (big and cavernous) is added from the mixer, and this is actually the 'live stereo mix' (I have the individual tracks for a later remix perhaps).

(I ran out of patch leads again — very much looking forward to getting my next order!)

Due to the unsynchronized modulations, the patch evolves over time and seems like it never repeats — for me, it's quite nice simply as a background ambience.

The Track is Here

#52weeksofsound week 43

Orchestra is just the modular, but different:

* AEModular Starter Rack 2 + SEQ16 + 4I/O + FMOS + MULTIFX + Wonkystuff rbss prototype

A few additions to the modular this week: FMOS and MULTIFX modules (supplied by Juno in the UK) and the initial prototype of the soon-to-be-released 'rbss' from Wonkystuff.

rbss is providing the main tempo clock, and the clicky rhythm (mutating over time), SEQ16 driving the FMOS through the MULTIFX reverb and a simple saw fading in and out. the rbss is also modulating the multiplier control on the FMOS — depth being modulated by an LFO.

With a small 'chance' dialled in on the rbss the sequence mutates slowl over time, so there are enough repetitions to hang on to, but enough variation not to be boring (I hope!)


Track is here: namcom.bandcamp.com/track/its-those-things-that-make-a-difference

Clicky Good!
:~0

Week 46 of #52weeksofsound — I can almost taste the year end…

Listening back to the year's tracks, I'm pretty pleased with almost all of them, but the later tracks using the AEModular are showing that maybe there's a 'proper' album in there.

To that end, this week I was working on a longer-form track for the as-yet-embryonic album, and this is the last 7 minutes of it.

Week 46 Track

Week 48: Three rbss' in control

rbss/3


An experiment in self-defining music: using a self-triggering envelope, and using the envelope-end signal to clock the rbss modules as well as the envelope-start. rbss modules are controlling the attack and decay of the envelope (and thus the tempo), each rbss being set to a different length so that the patterns don't repeat. rbss' are also used to control the pitch and modulation depth of the FMOS, as well as the lofi-delay's delay time.

The drone in the background is just the VCO through a slowly modulating filter into the lofi-delay (being modulated as described above).

… and the MULTIFX reverb of course.

Drizzly outside.