Sunday Synth Jam: This video, by Bryan Noll, captures a live performance on Eurorack modular synthesizer, with Electro Harmonix 45000 looper.
Technical Details:
Ableton Live feeds notes to Yarns. Yarns in 4M, clocked by Ableton plays Tides > Clouds, triggers René, triggers Peaks and modulates Elements, clocks Electro Harmonix 45000 playing two loops (SH-101 > Eventide H9).
René triggers Maths Ch. 4 which Gates Elements.
René QCV to Elements VOCT, CV to Elements Mallet.
Maths modulates Elements and Tides:
Elements – EOR > Position, OR > Geometry, SUM > Space
Tides – Ch. 1 env to Tides Level and Smooth, INV to Shape
Additional reverb, delay, sidechain compression in Ableton Live.
100bpm
Beautiful! Very soothing/dreamy
So nice to hear a creative tonal modular piece, that says more than ‘I can make interesting sounds.’ A steady stream of interesting sounds can get boring really quickly!
Odd to call it Analog Canyon when so much of the setup is digital.
From the Muffwiggler forum:
“Here’s the latest patch, title inspired by a chat I had the other night with my neighbor while sitting around a campfire. He was telling me about Antelope Canyon and I could have sworn that he said “Analog Canyon”. Got a good laugh out of it… Analog Canyon reminded me of something Longmont Potion Castle would say. “
Thanks for the info, a good story always adds to the song and just to clarify I really like Analog and Digital and use both in lots of ways, I definately wasn’t bringing up that old discussion. Just thought the title was a odd choice given the equipment.
A really accessible, enjoyable piece. Bravo.
And not a 4/4 bass drum to be heard!
But a 1/4.
Actually there is an 808 style kick sound coming from peaks that could be viewed as being 4/4 bass drum at a very slow tempo.
This is a really beautiful piece. I would love to hear more of this sort of thing come out of the modular world.
very nice, thanks for playing. great sounds out of the MI modules – some of which I think are the most interesting around. most modules are just the same VCO, VCF, etc from the past. MI are future forward 🙂
patch on
I have to echo the sentiments posted so far; this is a wonderfully *musical* example of an evolving, nuanced modular patch. It immediately inspired me to get back to my modules and make some mischief!
Thanks much for sharing this with us.