radio

One of the goals this year is to use the OP-1f more, or at least give it an honest shake. I had the non-f a couple years back, and it just didn't click then, mainly because I was trying to make it be something it wasn't, at all - a beat-driven groovebox. Sure, you can do that with it; folks make amazing stuff, but that's not how I'd want to do that. But as I've learned to create in a broader range of styles, I've yearned for a chance to try that workflow again. Sometimes the chance just falls right in your lap.

So, yeah, I missed Friday. So it goes - I was sleepy!

Saturday I was lucky to have my friend Eric over! He came prepared with his guitar and a preprepared Morphagene reel with it. We recorded another loop into Nebulae, then I plated the modular while he played guitar into it. Splice and looping points for each looper were controlled with Planar, and stored voltages controlled Nebulae's speed-independent-pitch. The guitar itself went through a manually wiggled BLmk1.5 cannel for distortion and aliasing, and finally, an input envelope follower was used to control the volume of a sub-osc from Three Body. Really fun stuff, and I always love to collaborate.

Then, today's is a nice Three Body loop through Echo for warming and texture. A bass I'm kind of lukewarm on from Just Friends through QPAS and Bib too. For both of these, I used some varied gate lengths, instead of mixing some envelopes for an ADSR, I explored a new technique I like a lot - having a simultaneously-triggered ASR for the VCA and AD for some timbral element. It's like the percussiveness of the initial hit, but more interesting. An EOR trigger from one of the lead hits gates an octave-up of JF (i6) super-distorted via BL through Data Bender to turn it into noisy rhythm. Finally, Scrooge through Ikarie makes a hell of a texture. I find it a bit of a pain to use, but need more of that!