Blade Runner Vibes – on Modular Synth
Since I’m a big fan of the old and the new BladeRunner movies, I simply had to do this tribute synth patch. Please enjoy and re-watch the movies.
The Blade Runner style melody pattern is randomly advanced by Qu-Bit’s Bloom fractal sequencer. No pre-recorded melody here.
Bard Quartet arpeggiator plays the bassline on Brains.
A rainy soundscape is generated by Ensemble Oscillator waveshaped into pink noise, which is then delayed and processed in Nautlius.
Mixed together with some random envelopes triggering an VCA to form kind of raindrop sounds impacting from time to time.
Typhoon, FX Aid and Milky Way shift all sound layers into an appropriate atmosphere using long delay reverbs.
Fractal sequencer – Qu-Bit Bloom Voices – Bastl Pizza (main synth) / Behringer Brains (bass) / 4ms Ensemble Oscillator (rainy noise) Modulation – Behringer Chaos (Marbles) for clock and random filter CV Filter – Bastl Cinnamon EG – XAOC Zadar with slowly randomized envelopes ARP – Shakmat Bard Quartet VCA – Behringer Four Play FX – Qu-Bit Nautilus (De-Shimmer Cascade) / Endorphines Milky Way (Tape Echo) / After Later Audio Typhoon (Spectral Clouds) / Happy Nerding FX Aid (Delay Magneto)
Mix – Endorphines Cockpit Samples – 2HP Play with a sample Remix FX Vocal Warp FX 03 from Apple Jam Pack 2: Remix Tools (pitched up and mixed into rain noise)
Audio recorded from my #eurorack synthesizer and video recorded via iPhone combined in Final Cut Pro in HDR.
Monthly Archives: January 2024
Eurorack – again
still searching for more self-generating melodic patterns….
Vermona Melodicer
this one is a great probabilistic pattern sequencer, it is so easy to enrich patterns with more notes, and come back to more sparse notes or completely blend into different base chords
After Later Audio Fuse
yet another Mutable Instruments clone of Warps, but with an updated Parasites firmware with many more new modes
Eurorack power up issues
Spent the whole weekend reorganizing my eurorack modules, but I still have powerup issues for some modules, so I decided to buy one more WMD softstart adapter. Hopefully this will help, otherwise I need another expensive power supply.
WMD Softstart
delays the power on current flow for a “low energy module” so that the bigger ones can get the startup juice first 😉
And of course I could not resist to get some extras….
DPW Design SW-1
the module version of my self mode simple A/B switch boxes, much more convenient, I use them a lot
Erica Synths Pico Input
always good to fill some tiny gaps with useful modules…. this one allows for quick audio input from various sources shifted to eurorack levels
Eurorack – Stepper connected
Stepper connected – on Modular Synth
An improvisation inspired by the era of accustic modems, when FidoNet was more affordable than internet. And printers and floppys were using stepper motors that we made music with.
The main arp voice is steadily modulated by random envelopes, and gates and notes are also triggered with probabilities from Black Sequencer.
Typhoon gets triggered from time to time and freezes into an interesting long spectral reverb cloud….
Sequencer – Erica Synths Black Sequencer Voices – Bastl Pizza (bass) / Behringer Brains (Plaits super saw arp) / 4ms Ensemble Oscillator (stepper sound)
Modulation – Instruo 0chd / Behringer Chaos (Marbles) EG – After Later Audio Baker modulating Brains VCA – Doepfer A130-8 for gating
Clock – ALM Pamelas New Workout FX – Endorphines Milky Way (Gated Reverb) / After Later Audio Typhoon (Spectral Clouds) / Neuzeit Instruments Quasar
Mix – Bastl Aikido / Endorphines Cockpit
Samples – freesound.org-546450 Internet Dialup / Remix FX Vocal Warp FX 03 from Apple Jam Pack 2: Remix Tools
Audio recorded from my #eurorack synthesizer and video recorded via iPhone combined in Final Cut Pro in HDR.
Eurorack – Bloom v1
Bloom v1 – on Modular Synth
My first try creating a melody with Qu-Bit’s Bloom fractal sequencer.
I tried to let it sound a bit underwater bubble like, with some whale like noises in between.
Almost everything is modulating everything else, hard to tame….
Fractal Sequencer – Qu-Bit Bloom
Voices – 4ms Spherical Wavetable Navigator SWN / Bastl Pizza / 4ms Ensemble Oscillator / Neuzeit Instruments Warp
Filters – Bastl Cinnamon / Bastl Ikarie
Modulation – Instruo 0chd / Behringer Four LFO / Joranalogue Filter 8
EG – After Later Audio Baker / Klavis Quadigy
Clock – ALM Pamelas New Workout FX – Endorphines Milky Way / Qu-Bit Nautilus / After Later Audio Typhoon / Neuzeit Instruments Orbit
Mix – Bastl Aikido / Behringer Four Play / Endorphines Cockpit Drums – Endorphines Queen of Pentacles
Visualization – Mordax Data
Audio recorded from my #eurorack synthesizer and video recorded via iPhone combined in Final Cut Pro, first try HDR.
Beautifying my Eurorack
Befaco Bananuts – beautiful color anodized aluminum nuts
since I’m a visual guy everything has to be color coded in my rack,
who wants to learn every jack’s function or read fancy fonts when you simply see which color does what
My color coding:
Midi/Clock – Purple
Audio – Blue/Red
CV – Silver
V/Oct – Yellow
Trigger – Green
Modulation – Black
After Later Audio Popple
a clone of Mutable Instruments Ripples V1, multimode filter
Another Behringer Eurorack Go case
same problem, too many modules and still not enough power 😀
After Later Audio SHTH
a sample and hold, and track and hold module in 2HP
Time to save more money, another module via Reverb
This time, the Klavis Quadigy quad programable envelope generator
A new 2nd hand eurorack module from Reverb
The QU-Bit Electronix Bloom fractal sequencer.
