- That's weird man
- yep

It's random, but it doesn't really loop. Let's call this a #RandomLoop anyways

Where I was just updating the firmware and configuration on my #ES9, testing outputs with a test tone, then suddenly! Yeah, I ended up chaining effects ( #Beads #Magneto ) just to see what happens, and started playing :)

Here you go, no bpm on this one. I'm triggering stuff by hand thanks to #Ears, through #Maths triggers the #sv1b as the sole ~~cat~~ sound source.

Here's a tiny tiny loop I recorded while setting up my new (tiny) midi breakout, providing 6 TRS A/B midi in/out, via breakout pins to (for now) the #DistingEXPlusα. In the future maybe for the #ES9 too, for clock syncing.

I'm now able to sequence the sampler on the #DistingEXPlusα from my #M8 tracker! This is going to be super cool for creating richer melodies.

So here it is, today's #RandomLoop is at a groovy 85bpm, drums and compression added in post.

This week is something different: software meets hardware, eurorack case meets #VCV Rack. I'm adding the #sv1b sounds through #Magneto to a VCV patch. I'm sending out a fresh melodic #RandomLoop, with exciting “clicks” from laggy USB hubs (it's how I connect the #ES9 to the computer) and probably some #Pipewire missing optimizations. I must have spent more time setting up than actually making sounds :)

Anyhow, it's recorded now, to ears everyone!

Hi everyone,

Couple of days ago I was watching a video called “Resampled Sequencers” from Jakub Ciupinski (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnmkdGsA0jA) and I thought to myself: Genius! I mean, it's not that it's super arcane or difficult or anything, it's just a technique that is easy to overlook, but gives really interesting musical results.

This was the genesis of today's #RandomLoop

I'm pairing #OrnamentAndCrime with the Hemisphere Suite firmware, with my trusty #sv1b, #PNW is on clock duty and #FXAid is providing great sounding reverb. All that goes through the #ES9 straight to #Reaper for recording. Clock 1 is going to a turing machine-type sequencer on the O_C, and clock 2 is going to a quantizer, also on the O_C, and a copy is used to open the ADSR of the sv1b. The output of the sequencer is going through the quantizer of course. The pitch information is routed to the first oscillator of the sv1b, and the sound output then goes to the FXAid for some reverb and then out.
There is a very slight amount of FM on the oscillator, to give it tremolo, translating into some hesitation or bad tracking.

Here are a few modulation points: I'm playing with the amount of reverb, I'm changing the slopiness of clock 1 (it's adding jitter to the clock), and I'm also changing the probability that a value is changed in the source sequence, very slightly.

All in all it's a (mostly) subtle progression to a memorable tune :)

*runs away*

Wanting to try out generating sub-harmonics with #Maths, I recorded a new #RandomLoop. It's a slow (69 BPM), somewhat dark, and minimal piece, recorded live.

There are three “channels”, the first one the #sv1b played by the #deluge, going to #Clouds (#microcell) for some ambient reverb.
The second channel is taking the sawtooth wave output of the #sv1b into the trigger input of #Maths channel one. #Maths is set to not cycle, linear response, fall set to minimum and I'm playing with the rise time to get different sub-harmonics. The full trick is explained in this video [1], if you're interested. #Maths output then goes to the #BBD for some light flanging effect.
Drums come from the #QueenOfPentacles, and are also sequenced from the #deluge, which is the third channel.

All was captured by the #ES9 connected to my #PineBookPro (seriously that ARM laptop is sooo great), with #Reaper.

Have a great day, everyone!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L10PjCdSJqA (sorry again for the youtube link… Please point me to a better way to link yt resources if you know one)