Eurorack

I hit a snag while building this patch. I wanted to route filtered sound back into my Morphagene. This bit of circular signal flow would let me capture and layer some of the more interesting filter movements, and without devolving into a messy feedback patch.

I’ve been working a sound built around a bread-and-butter FM’d oscillator (258t) through a lo-pass gate (Natural Gate), then through layers of delay and filtering. I find myself reaching often for this style of patch. The formula sounds great, and admittedly without much work. …

Introduction I have nothing better to do with my time, so I make electronic music, play it live, and build generative audio-visual experiences for the web (1, 2, 3) and outside of it. One line of my ongoing research is generating techno tracks semi-randomly. A toy I built (click oscilloscope for…

First off here’s today’s jam: #Jamuary day 27. My take on Crockett’s Theme (partial). Basimilus Iteritas Alter (BIA) is playing the lead. And here’s my Jamuary playlist. I only started with hardware modular 8 months ago, and unfortunately a personal incident about 6 months ago prevented me from really exploring…

It’s been months since I’ve spoken with my eurorack. My Eurorack rack has become this thing in the corner. My little disaster. That makes sounds that are too wild for any application outside of a late-night sonic exploration into whatever I was feeling at that very moment. …

I came across a short interview with Phil Oakey at Synth Fest 2019 where he talked about hardware sequencers that allow you to multiply steps. I had to learn more. The Sonic State interview by Gaz Williams was short and impromptu, but I pieced together what he said and started exploring this style of sequencer. It looks like he was referring to the RYK M185 and the Intellijel Metropolis. Both of these sequencers let you adjust how many times each…

Patch notes for My first YouTube video: a eurorack improvisation called “Tell Me When”. I did a bit of re-organisation of my modular case so I could fit in a fairly simple analog voice along with Rings and Plaits. This meant removing all of the drum modules apart from a…

In the first two parts of this article on my ‘studio as modular’ method of music production I’ve covered a way of deconstructing how to approach sound sources and shared my thoughts on how to re-consider using modulation. This time it’s all about use of FX. A bit of background…

In the first part of this article I introduced a way of working I’ve adopted recently that I’m finding useful for more innovative and interesting music production, and focused on the idea that ‘everything is an oscillator’ — ultimately deconstructing perceptions of what instruments are or do and treat them…