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June 2016
"Red and Blue Noise"
"Red and Blue Noise" [mp3 removed -- please listen on Bandcamp]
Have been working on the modular synth to make it more beat-capable. This tune was all done with the modular, except the pads, "shaker," and some effects. The kick isn't as punchy as a sampled kick -- it's a sine wave with short envelope -- but it sounds like a rhythm synth. Snares are white and pitched noise with random voltages modulating the filter. Hats are SID chip samples played in the Doepfer A-112 with random voltages affecting the pitch. The 303-ish runs are Doepfer mini-synth, played with random sequencer settings and then edited down to the most melodic clips. Much of the digital noise piled on at various points comes from the Segoh "bit rot" chip in Tiptop Audio's Z-DSP effects module.
freedom from choice is what you want
...sang DEVO, in 1980, and 36 years later it's still true! Meet the Brand X and Brand Ecch of Election '16:
photo via Stop Me Before I Vote Again
Meanwhile, Benjamin Studebaker analyzes the logic of the "unite behind Clinton" pressure Democrats will be feeling from now to November.
"Part Mental"
"Part Mental" [mp3 removed -- please listen on Bandcamp]
303-ish runs from the Doepfer A-111-5 mini-synth and A-155 sequencer, interspersed with nasal SID chip riffs and Ableton "convert to harmony" MIDI passages based on some Poulenc harpsichord samples I made last year. The Poulenc material was altered significantly by Ableton's magic algorithms, which read recorded audio and convert it to MIDI clips with the same approximate pitches. I moved the pitches around and then used the clip to play the Massive softsynth.