Full Song, One Voice: Modular Minimalism on the Moog Sound Studio (Mother-32, Subharmonicon, DFAM) скачать в хорошем качестве

Full Song, One Voice: Modular Minimalism on the Moog Sound Studio (Mother-32, Subharmonicon, DFAM)

As a recovering piano kid with a background in jazz, I tend to approach songwriting from a very chord-heavy perspective. To break this habit, I challenged myself to come up with a song idea that only uses a single voice. Using a chord progression I'd written at the piano earlier, I broke it up into three parts: a bass and melody to carry the progression, and a 2-note ostinato figure to bounce off them and add a sense of rhythm. Then, with the magic of MIDI, I ran these three parts to my Moog Mother-32, added some delay and reverb, and presto! A three-part modular etude for one oscillator. Then I cheated. But only a little bit! By running the outputs of the Mother-32 into the Subharmonicon, but modifying them with the unique alchemy of the its clock dividers and step sequencers, I used the second voice to sample and modify the first voice. Everything the Subharmonicon puts out is a warped reflection of the Mother-32. So I guess that makes it more of a modular fugue. There's a lot of patch cable spaghetti here, but basically it's just clock synchronization, attenuating the M32's LFO and multiplying it out to control filter cutoffs, and patching the M32's saw wave into the external input to blend it with the square wave (I find this thickens the voice nicely, especially with a bit of PWM). As always, on send effects there's Ableton's Hybrid Reverb and Echo, along with Arturia's EFX Motions. Valhalla Supermassive emerges at the end to devour everything, as is its wont. Thanks for listening!