Teezer Through Zero VCO

Ian Fritz, January 2009 This module is a sawtooth-based VCO capable of frequency modulation (FM) extending past zero frequency into the negative-frequency regime. Thru-zero FM provides a much wider and … Read More

Summer Play

Summer is almost here.  I haven’t spent enough time patching lately.  But this emerged yesterday.  I started out with the idea to apply three envelopes to the MOTM-410 Triple Resonant … Read More

Forgotten Patch

I found this recording on my disk from a few weeks ago.  I think it uses the Resonance Mixer and some Low Pass Gates, and probably the CGS Bi-N-Tic filter.  … Read More

Machine

Here’s a piece featuring the CGS Bi-N-Tic filter.  Whatever you call it, this module isn’t like anything else!  The patch is simply to take a pulse wave from a MOTM-300 … Read More

Resonance Mixers

I designed this module mainly for the purpose of increasing the resonance of the Cynthia/Buchla Quad Low Pass Gates.  There are quite a few low pass gates circuits around the … Read More

RCF ART 310-A Speakers

I wanted my own PA system for performances, so as not to depend on house PA systems.  So I purchased a pair of these RCF powered PA speakers.  The RCF … Read More

North Slope

First in the Modules in a Hat series.  To break out of limiting habits a bit, I wrote the names of 79 physical modules on little pieces of paper and … Read More

Bridge Of Sighs

Searching for interesting timbres today, I came up with a simple patch using four modules:  Cynthia Webster’s ZerOscillator, the dual MOTM-480 Resonant Filters, one sinewave LFO from a MOTM-380, and … Read More

Gong

This recording breaks new ground for me.  I used a natural sound input with a microphone, the striking of a small bell, via the Blacet Input module.  I used the … Read More

Studio 2009

Photos of the whole studio setup in March, 2009.  One of the portable cabinets sits to the left of the main cabinet stack and holds modules with a digital emphasis.  … Read More