"Xylodrome" [mp3 removed -- a revised version has been posted on Bandcamp]
Bouncy rave-ish thing where two sequencer melodies, both played on Reaktor instruments, intersect, mostly not in real time but with some virtual knob turning at the end. No drums (though they could be added.) Lately have been trimming several-minute "sessions" down to small loops of one-to-four measures and then rearranging and splicing the measures. Most of the work is in the editing but the cuts aren't heard so much.
Update: Coda: "Horserace in Airport Scanner, Take 4" (hat tips GucciSoFlosy, vokoda)
"Pacific Scrim" [remixed and reposted here]
Apologies for the detailed technical notes, will forget this if I don't write it down.
Right channel: Sidstation sustained note C3 (raising and lowering octaves to C2 and C4 at the end) enters Mutator filter through main audio input (also in the right channel). Midi notes on MIDI channel 3 play in an ascending/descending sequence, affecting the pitch of the cutoff filter [and retriggering LFO sweeps at the beginning of each note--I think]. At the same time a drum pattern from an Electribe groovebox entering the Mutator's right channel external audio port changes the envelope contour, giving the sequence a syncopated beat it wouldn't otherwise have. (The Electribe was set at the same BPM but I ran out of MIDI cables so it's a miracle it's in sync.)
Left channel: Same as above, except the audio being filtered (the Hawaiian guitar sound) is a high note from an analogue drum machine (with some FM wobble), the MIDI on channel 4 is triggering descending/ascending notes instead of the reverse, and there is no Electribe beat envelope.
The opening section is the same setup as the left/right channels described above, played with the Sidstation and Ch. 3/4 MIDI notes but without the Electribe beat envelope in the right channel, making the LFO/filtering more swirly.
The melody at the halfway point sounds like it wandered in from another song but it's kind of pretty, IIDSSM.
"Edible Plastic" [mp3 removed]
Previously posted as the third part of "Modular Medley."
A Sidstation solo, Mutator-filtered and digitally delayed (FX chain alert), plays over a couple of layers of analog kick sounds. (Hey, John, I finally used that Red Sound device I bought from you.)
"Genes of Pure Arsenic" [mp3 removed]
Previously posted as the second part of "Modular Medley."
Kraftwerk-y sounding tune based on the MIDI demo pattern for Reaktor's SQP sequencer, drastically altered by turning the (virtual) dials on the HERW Modular-Mini 2 synth in real time, while the sequence plays--my own patch, FWIW.
