I’ve been thinking about how to use controllable switches for automatic music. Being out of room in the ‘automatic music box’, I put together a 4ms RCD, the Pithoprakta, and … Read More

A Quartussy is a set of four ‘quantussy cells’. Each cell is a VCO with a triangle wave and a pulse wave output, with the pulse wave driving the trigger … Read More

Back to some automatic music! I’ve added the Freak Manifold Filter from Vult. Here, the Freak is in Resonant Comb Filter mode. This patch includes six Quantussy Cells, each enhanced … Read More

I played out at a local event, Cambient Amping IV, doing an improvisation using mostly Peter Blasser instruments. Didn’t get a picture of the setup, but here’s what I used: … Read More

Shown above is part of the patch used to create these compositions.  The Quantussy section of Cocoquantus is patched to Eurorack modules: Fourses and the L-1 Stereo VC Mixer.  It’s … Read More

Today’s patch:  Fourses is bounds modulated by Cocoquantus.  The five Castle outputs are distributed into the eight bounds inputs of Fourses.  Four of the quantussy triangles are controlling the levels … Read More

This diagram shows a generic quantussy cell, as I call it. See What Is The Quantussy for more information. It’s the name of the five oscillator cluster in Peter Blasser’s … Read More

Ever since that time, in 2012, that I was captivated by the Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus oscillator cluster, which Peter Blasser called the Quantussy, a Nabra or analog brain, I have sought … Read More

Quantussy is the name Peter Blasser gave to the cluster of five oscillators in his Cocoquantus.  He says, The Quantussy is a five (5) petaled flower, each petal with oscirator, … 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