Grooving with Elektron Model:Cycles, little texture sound with Eurorack modular added, as well as a partial e-bass played by me. Quite dancy I guess. Since I didnt film the cycles live action, it´s shown in play mode synced by Cubase, where some usual smooth EQ- and compressing was done then in the end.
The video shows more or less a public transport trip with the Viennese suburban train line, ending in “Aspern Nord”, which I lovingly call the Texas prairie of Vienna 😉
Eurorack modular patch with rhythmic pattern of Korg Volca Keys. Volca is playing a repetetive sequence, while Eurorack is adding texture and sounds. The Volca Keys is tempo triggered by an Eurorack LFO. Towards the end you can see in Cubase how Volca is partly cut out and Eurorack is run through Soundtoys´ Crystallizer, and vice versa Volca run through Tritik´s krush pro, both adding some special sound textures. Some regular EQing & compression added in Cubase for final audio mix. Have fun!
Modular patch with grooves & soundscapes, a wild but fantastic journey to your soul.
(pls listen with good speakers or headphones!)
The patch was recorded in one piece, only some intro chord pads were added later. No effects used beside usual compression and EQing in Cubase. The reverb you can hear comes from the Doepfer A-199 spring reverb.
Because the patch wasn´t filmed while recorded, I did some shootings afterwards. So the modular patch shown in the video was filmed after the fact, nevertheless it is the same as with the audio recording. To make the video a bit more interesting I tried some kind of action-film cutting by going with the rhythm. Kind of 😉
I hope you enjoy that wild, maybe crazy, journey, – and you are ready for „all in“.
Thanks for watching!
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modular drone with feedback reverb of the doepfer A-199 spring reverb, which itself is fed by external synthrotek chaos nand vco. A quantizer (white noise layered) gives feedback little tonal directions.
Drone modular patch.
Doepfer Quad VCO doing the chord, A111-3 and Diexie II+ in the lower register. Tides is modulating, Stoicheia and Erica Synths ADSR are triggering VCAs & Wasp filter.
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my first (conscious) Rebel Technology STOICHEIA rhythm.
After some well meant introducing words I switch the audio to recorded sound (pls watch y volume there, a warning will show up), and have some fun with doing little variations in the rhythm with new Stoicheia module. It´s a very simple patch, just checking things out, I´m using two different VCOs, each one triggered by it´s own envelope, which themselves are triggered by the two Stoicheia sequences; – running finally through Doepfer WASP filter.
In the end I´m playing around with the filter, and some delay, reverb and Alter Boy automations added.
History
This goes way back. In the third century BCE, the Greek mathematician Euclid described a way to determine the largest common denominator of any two integers. As it turns out, his method is the same as what people have used to divide beats into rhythms. Across the globe, from ancient to modern times; the rhythms that pervade human existence can be generated using the same, simple algorithm.
The cultural and historical range covered by these rhythms is nothing short of breathtaking. From Brazilian Samba and Bossa-Nova, to Bulgarian folk dances, thirteenth century Persian drum patterns, and complex poly-rhythms of West and Central Africa.
Rhythmic modular patch with Doepfer A-111-3 as single sound source. Erica Synths Black Envelope Generator is modulated by three envelopes itself, then triggering XAOC Tallin VCA and Doepfer Wasp filter. By mixing all three envelopes, I could attenuate each of them seperately to create different rhythms by the main modulator Erica Synths EG.
To get some tonal variety as well a random voltage triggered a sample & hold, which was then getting through my quantizer in order to get little tonal definition. No sequenzer used.
Finally some delay, reverb automation & Krush was added in Cubase, as well as usual sound treatment.
Thnx for watching!
Track only (better sound quality I guess) at:
soundcloud.com/mcfproject