I set up four similar patches, each with two of the same Low Pass Gates module, four different makes.  Each patch looks like:  S&H -> Oscillator FM; Oscillator pulse out … Read More

A rhythm experiment using Pithoprakta, the probability pulse sequencer.  Six voices are triggered off by the module.  Manual intervention a few times on the Loop button to lock in a … Read More

Another excavation from cassette tapes, this is a recording of a live performance by my second band, The Fluks, from 1978.  It was the beginning of the New Wave in … Read More

I don’t use much synthesizer software. But, upon seeing a demonstration of Audulus by Mark Boyd at a local synth club meeting, and then checking out the price ($50 US), … Read More

I’ve often heard musicians describing their composition process as ‘hearing something in my head’ and then figuring out how to make those sounds.  My process is different.  Instead of hearing … Read More

Here’s patch made with two of my newest Eurorack modules, Just Friends and Rings. The Patch QCD generates two clocks, one to drive Pithoprakta, the other to strike Rings and … Read More

My friend Noah Kalos brought over his eurorack modular synth, with two DIY Mutable Instruments Rings modules (and lots more).  We noodled around a little.  

It’s a self-running patch that I tweak a little in real time.  Quantisise works with a Make Noise Maths and Function to generate a complex pattern that drives an audio … Read More

Getting back to working on self-running patches.  Today’s idea:  to process source material first through Cocoquantus, then through Clouds.  Initial trial uses Tides Parasite, Two Bumps, as VCO, with two … Read More