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ModEration

...Just because I like modulating things

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Isolations

My first Isolation Session series has come full circle. Here they are in a playlist:

Switcheroo

I got a third dotcom Sequential Switch, so now I can do 48 step sequences. Thats good isn't it? This patch also uses the modified Roland Dr 55 which has drum trigger ins

Moogway Shift

A patch on the Moog 3C which uses the sequencers and sequential switches to change melodic patterns. Delay and reverb from the Buchla 200

Multi-Modular

Here is a multi-modular patch, whereby I use the Buchla 200 MARF to control the EMS VCS3

This is possible because I modified the VCS3 Jones cable to be able to send and receive CV and gate signals

I’m also using the Roland 100M to add some filter modulation on the VCS3 via the pin matrix

The last bit of the patch is sending some triggered bursts of sound from the output of the VCS3 into the Buchla 200 delay and bandpass filters, which are being modulated by the MARF as well

Recrochet

Crochet is a process of creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn

Recrochet is a process of creating sounds on a modular synth by interlocking loops of noise so that they sound a bit like early Tangerine Dream

Another Buchla self-player. Mainly using the 296 Spectral Processor and taking 4 different frequency outputs from it into 4 LPGs and then randomly panning the result with the 102 Stereo Locator

Miniature Moog

Check out these mini versions of Moog Modular modules. They look pretty interesting if you want to build a compact version of a classic Moog system without spending 100k and using up one whole wall of your studio. I have no idea what these sound like and how they feel to use, but going on the specs and the fact that they are made by a division of Club Of Th Knobs, who have been specialising in accurately cloning Moog modules for years, I guess the chances are they will be pretty good

I put together a system in Photoshop that fairly much matches my original Moog 3C, just for fun (although its missing the big matrix mixer). I don't intend to buy any Aion modules at the moment, I just wanted to see what a mini Moog modular 3C would look like, OK?

Dodecacid

More messing on the Buchla 200 (and 100, and a Roland DR55 with modified trigger inputs)

Modules used: Dodeca, Marf, 277 Delay, 261e VCO, 257 CV Processor 123 Sequencer, 106 Mixer, 110 Gate, 130 Attack Generator, 194 BPF

Native Foundation

I was very honoured to be asked by none other than Michelle Moog-Koussa, daughter of Bob Moog, and director the the Bob Moog Foundation, to contribute some sound samples to a new Native Instruments PLAY SERIES sample-based instrument from some of my vintage modular systems. So I spent some time PATCHING (linked here) and sent them over. Well its ready for use now so go ahead and make some noise, 50% of profits go to the BMF, "Its for charity.."

Delations

Another Buchla patch using my new delay module (277), this time a softer tone is being explored. I sent the melodic tones from the 201 and MARF to the delay, and also the Buchla 100 stereo spring reverbs

Distortions

Just got a Buchla 277 delay and 257 voltage processor. Thank-you Wes! The system is rounding out very nicely now

Patchwork

Been busy patching today...

Pinging

Ping: make or cause to make a short, high-pitched ringing sound

Verb: ping; 3rd person present: pings; past tense: pinged; past participle: pinged; gerund or present participle: pinging

Strong Karplus

Mod Can Do

I have finally put together my dream Modcan A system. Yes We Modcan!

Six Million Dollar Piano

Trying out a patch idea for a piano sound on the Moog 3C. (Patch idea based partially on an article by G.Reid, 'Synth Secrets', SOS magazine, October 2002)

Modules used (all RA Moog from around 1968): 5 x VCO, 1 x Noise, 1 x LPF (for tuning the noise), 3 x 4 :1 Mixers, 1 x Fixed Filter Bank, 1 x Spring Reverb, 2 x VCA, 2 x Env Gen, 1 x VCLPF, 1 x Multiple, Keyboard, Output Mixer with EQ

The patch is as follows: 3 square wave VCOs tuned to unison into a mixer and out into a fixed filter bank for fine-tuning the tone, then into a VCA/envelope with a very long decay (this models the piano strings)

A second bank of 2 VCOs and some tuned noise go into a second VCA/envelope with a very short decay then into the reverb module (this models the hammer hitting the strings)

These two signals are mixed into the LPF and the long envelope controls the frequency of this

No other sounds or effects are being heard

I only wish it was 88 note polyphonic! To buy the required 88 Moog Modulars to accomplish this would cost about 6 million dollars