kymatica – peaks and nulls

Between work and the second snow storm this week I was super short on time, which made today another iPad only affair. I started with something similar as with Jamuary 2507 and 2508, the Alexandernaut Fugue Machine feeding two instantiations of Decent Sampler, one with cello samples and the other with viola. Both go through some delay and reverb, and later Fluss, a beautiful granular synthesizer by Bram Bos and Hainbach.

I have lots to work to do with these sort of patches, and with this one in particular. I’m a midi novice, and still inexperienced with software instruments, particularly those on the iPad, so good chunks of my time were figuring the best way to do X or Y. It’s a pain, but the effort has not gone unrewarded, and, more importantly, I’ve opened a new world of possibilities for the future.

Plugins Used:
Alexandernaut Fugue Machine
Decidedly Decent Sampler
Numerical RP1 – Dual Digital Delay
Blue Mangoo Stratosphere Cloud Reverb
Bram Bos + Hainbach Fluss

Performed and recorded in 1 take in AUM on iPad.

I don’t use software very often. I’ve never recorded a piece of music using only software. Until today.

With work looming early, and the promise of a late evening, a full modular patch just isn’t in the cards today. So I decided to pull out the iPad and create…something. Though just a little bit of effort went into it, I’m supremely happy with the result.

The patch is simple. The Alexandernaut Fugue Machine, a wonderfully conceived four head interactive midi piano roll where each head can be sent in any direction, at any speed or octave, sent 3 channels of midi data to Klevgrand Speldosa, a beautiful music box plugin for iPad, while sending a fourth stream of midi data to Decent Sampler loaded with the DK Solo Cello Spurs sample pack. Both software instruments are sent to the Eventide BlackHole Reverb, and out.

It’s not a super low effort day, I needed to figure out how to do a few things, and come up with a quick and dirty improvisation, but it’s not a high effort day. Whatever effort, the result is wonderful; in the spirit of Olafur Arnalds. After eight modular recordings in six days I think I can forgive myself.

Software Used:
Kymatica AUM
Alexandernaut Fugue Machine
Klevgrand Speldosa
Decidedly Decent Sampler
Eventide BlackHole

Performed and recorded in 1 take in AUM on iPad.

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