I’ll be the first to admit today’s product isn’t my best. I’m tired. I’ve worked very late the past 2 days, and unexpectedly today, which has left little time for planning my wiggles and wiggling my plan. To add on, I was wiggling unfamiliar modules in unfamiliar ways, and although some parts of this patch are decent enough for a quick twist, (I’m largely pleased with the melodic line and how its audio and control chains worked out), others are not really that great at all. My sequence is jacked (foiled again by my son, lol). Modulation is haphazard. Delays aren’t really well synced. My chords are muddy.
But I did learn a valuable lesson: it matters not how much you want to use those tape delays on everything, they don’t work well for everything. See the chords in today’s Jamuary for Exhibit A. They’re a muddy mess.
In this patch I was centering on experimenting with the Joranalogue Step 8 as a shift register to create polyphony. Inspired by DivKid and his Step 8 Tutorial, I sent my v/oct signal to Step 8, with various Analogue Outputs sending pitch CV to Generate 3, and the 3 v/oct inputs on the Acid Rain Technology Chainsaw. The melody was played by Generate 3 and its chain (VCO > Wavefolder > VCF > LPG), while the Chainsaw provided some chewy chords to run through the Pkhia, with all 6 outputs mixed to one stereo signal, and everything sent to delay and reverb before going out.
Today is the first occasion I’ve had to experiment heavily with the Bizarre Jezabel Pkhia. I’d run something through it just to test its functionality, but I’d never really played with it intently. What a beautiful sounding filter, particularly with the DJ filter mode. The stereo movement it creates is mesmerizing. I made a point to use all 6 outputs, for chords that swirled. Unfortunately, the swirl is mostly a mushy mess.
My patch today didn’t really work in the way I had imagined, but I also see room to improve upon it and get it where it needs to go. Not every Jamuary day will be a good one.
Modules Used:
Oxi One
Joranalogue Step 8
Joranalogue Orbit 3
Joranalogue Generate 8
Joranalogue Fold 6
Joranalogue Filter 8
Joranalogue Contour 1
Rabid Elephant Natural Gate
Acid Rain Technology Chainsaw
Bizarre Jezabel Pkhia
AI Synthesis 018 Stereo Matrix Mixer
Knob Farm Hyrlo
Knob Farm Ferry
Mutable Instruments Veils
Nonlinearcircuits Triple Sloths
Vongon Ultrasheer
Echofix EF-X2