Today, I've been making samples out of the #PittsburghModular #SV1B #eurorack module, while learning more on how to use my sampler. I made pads, a bass and several kicks. Needless to say, the process was very inefficient :) This took over 4 hours. I put together a small #RandomLoop to showcase the captured sounds.

Chill but dark #RandomLoop extract of my recording of today. Pretty classic setup #GroundControl at the helm, sequencing everything, #sv1b on bass duty, #BitBoxMicro on drum sampler duty and #DistingEXPlusα on piano sampler duty. Some effects on bass with the #FXAid, and on the master track with #Magneto for usual tape goodness!

I've attached a small extract, the full session recording is around 1 hour long (!). Oh and it's my first time doing things completely out of the box, I've recorded directly onto a Zoom recorder this time + ambient mic, so if you pay attention, you can hear cables rattling on the table :)

Here it is, buckle up!

Sometimes, there's a need for something more experimental, letting loose of (some) structures, letting the instrument play itself more. Not really experimental per se, but I'll get there eventually, still too afraid of letting go of everything. That's a #RandomLoop

On the technical side: I have four tracks recorded on the sampler, two piano takes, similar, but different, and two resonant filter pings, one with a unique tone, only rhythm, the other with rhythm and pitch. Next to this, the #sv1b goes through #RuinaVersio and then #Magneto for some tape goodness. Captured live, triggered the samples recorded and moving parameters on RuinaVersio and Magneto as the track progresses.

Another #RandomLoop, some acid bass from the #sv1b, some arpeggio, some rich synth from the #OP1, still training for live, here we go!

- 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.

HSTR is for Hypnotic Saturated Techno #RandomLoop

Done in under an hour, because I have had too little time to make anything lately. It's my first hour with the #GroundControl sequencer from #Endorphines, I'm in training for a potential live gig in the summer. It's growing on me :)

Bass is coming from the #sv1b through #tanh3 for saturation, drums are from the #QueenOfPentacles and the lead theme is #Beads through #RuinaVersio for grit. Everything is sequenced by #GroundControl and performed live.

Have a listen!

(I'm also giving a try to posting in mp3, instead of opus, in the hope that more people will be able to play it from the browser directly)

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!

Just throwing this out, while no one's looking. More #RandomLoop, this one's called Triad Danger. Live recording of the big eurorack case ( #sv1b #Magneto #Beads #LxD #Stages and #PNW ), plus kick and clap samples, from somewhere.

It's right there at the edge, you'd almost like to dance to it, but nah, it's too weird, what would people think of you (but you shouldn't care! I'd dance to that with you).

Ambient alert! Ambient alert!

Well, it has happened again, I went to ambient territory. I'm trying out my eurorack delay module #Strymon #Magneto and felt like it.

The patch has 2 voices, one is the #DistingEX in sampler mode playing the piano, this goes directly to #Magneto and then to out. But! #Magneto has a send and return feature, in which I'm plugging the my other #BBD (bucket-brigade delay) which is super noisy, and even whinny if you push it: 200% character, I just love this type of noises.

The other voice is the trusty #sv1b for bass duty, going through a very nice (and unknown) reverb/delay algorithm on the #FXAid and then to out.

Sequencing and clock comes from #PNW as one could expect.

Have a relaxing listening session, here's my latest #RandomLoop !

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*