I went back to the patch drawing I had sketched out for Undersea, back in 2008, just about two years ago in July. Recently I scanned this into the computer.
Undersea seems accessible to a lot of musical tastes, so I tried creating it again. I replaced the MOTM-310 VCOs with MOTM-300 VCOs, but the patch is essentially the same. However I neglected to make notes as to the settings on the Modcan Dual Quantizer and the initial ratio of pitches on the two oscillators. I had to remember how to calibrate the automatic panning. Despite the lack of this information, the patch sounds quite like the original, but still unique in its own way. I made several short takes of this aleatoric patch. Here’s one.
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Nice! Never thought of running one S&H into another. The overall effect of this reminds me of something I’ve heard elsewhere…not sure if it’s one of the Lovely Music artists from the 70s (like David Behrman), or possibly one of my Vaz Modular software synth patches. In any case, me like!
I wish more people would post patch diagrams when they post sound examples of modular stuff. Verbal descriptions get convoluted.
Glad you like it! I use the cascaded S&H quite a bit. The trick is to clock them on different phases of a square wave LFO. This creates the ‘analog shift register’ effect. The second S&H follows the first one, resulting in a divergence and then re-convergence of the outputs, which here translate to pitch.
I’m continuing to work on this patch and will post another take soon. I think I have found a way to solve the problem of the Miniwave glitch that happens when the CV falls right on a boundary, causing the MW to buzz indecisively. I’ll use the quantized CV to control the MW, instead of the raw S&H output. And I will draw a new and better patch diagram.