DN patches. Raw sound
Archetype Drone
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Modular.
Important. All oscillators tuned by ear. To vibrate my solar plexus when I stand at the back for the room. Absolutely NO PITCH MOD.
Layer 1. A DX7 algo from plaits straight to mixer. Super slow LFO to timbre, super slow cycling slope , with CV mod to exp , to morph.
Layer 2. Disting algo B8 waveshaper VCO. Super slow LFO to shape. Into Doepfer SSI filter, no mod. To Jwlr Cast ring mod/ cross fader in 1, sine wave from SV1 primary oscillator in 2. Super slow cycling slope from rampage into mix CRV.
Layer 3. SV1 blade wave through SV1 filter (no filter mod) super slow LFO to PWM, into Jwlr cast wave folder.
mix out to A&H zed 14. Recorded to iPad via usb.
important. No FX. No filter modulation. All knob tweaking done in rhythm with events happening outside studio window , leaves falling, tree branches swaying, clouds passing, light changing.
kinda ruins it reading all that hey? But that was the brief, explain how you did it.
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I think thatās a fair challenge to all the rest of us spamming drones to the thread. To be honest, though, as challenge initiator I see the last weekās posts as more of a warm up than anything else. With a month and a half left there is plenty of time for people to locate their deep vibrational spaces in even more inspiring and resonant ways.
But will reference your post as good practice in the intro to this thread.
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iāll keep guilt drone spamming, but with requested context below.
i used an LLM to create my own spec generative system with 111 patch parameters. 32 harmonic drawbars. 10 LFOs. 10 audio-input envelope trigger routes and 14 xy morph banks for each section that have a perlin noise walk.
sections include Foundation, Spectral Shape, Timbre Sculpt, Partials, Motion, FM, PM, FFT, and Reverb. You can shape pitch, partial count, brightness, formants, detune, ripple, blur, envelopes, stereo width, drift, and phase, then push the result through spectral freeze, feedback, shifting, and time-smear processing.
it also includes a convolution reverb with 44 sampled spaces. thereās a master fx section too with 8 band eq.
itās producing harmonic drones/textures, spectral washes, wafty atmospheres and soundscapes. these can slowly evolve over hours or be intense fast moving patches. the visual system is just for sharing patches here.
when you tweak it in real time things can become more humanised and dramatic, and then processing through external hardware adds another dimension.
but for now i generate a patch, tweak and listen, and can be bemused, disappointed or transported.
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Got my SP404 MKII out for this. After regaining some muscle memory watching youtube tutorials, I came up with this drone, based on some random sounds from the built in tone generator, pitched down and resampled with compression, filters and effects to be played back in looping ping-pong mode with slow envelopes applied.
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Thatās amazing. I tried to get my AI to build me a simple three oscillator drone box based on the Crum Hum and failed spectacularly to achieve anything useable. That is definitely an interesting and rather impressive achievement
And lots of fun clearing the parameters and reloading it to create new random drones.
Perhaps one to leave permanently plugged into nullband as an autonomous droning agent.
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I am tossing up the idea of permanent transmissions
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Bass Station 2 and reverb.
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That is excellent. Very much in my zone. Hadnāt thought of the Bass Station as a drone machine. But shows you can drone with anything!
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The drone (cut down to fit 10mb)
The patch
Not pictured.
Vermona retroverb lancet, quadraverb, Octatrack.
Modular provides main body. Using ring modulated slewed random from Pams to modulate Plaits parameters. SV1 cross mod voice.
Sending modular signal to vermona, with an envelope follower to swell the bandpass filter. This signal sends to the quadraverb.
Octatrack on a seperate channel running looped field recording, slowed down to almost zero, filtered, a smidge of lofi and compression, into the quadraverb.
No pitch modulation. This time I wanted something more cranial and fuzzy.
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operator, the reason I love and keep Live, 2x2 setup on the voices, i.e. 2 separate voices with independent modulator for each, running through bunch of all kinds of fx.
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Superb!!
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thanks 
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experiment with 3 oscillators beating
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Patched this up on my ALM modular system again (brief notes below). I did try to compress to upload here but even with ~120kb bitrate MP3 I still wasnāt able to get it under 10MB, so have resorted to Bandcamp again.
The sub bass that makes up the foundation is output A of the CIzzle oscillator, with ocassional manual tweaking to add some noise. The FM tones are the TAZM-O oscillator, modulated by a self-oscillating filter, with the amount of index tweaked and modulated across the duration. Output B of Cizzle provides some ring-modulated tones later on.
The background noise and texture is the rest of the sounds sent to reverb, and fedback through heavy distortion, saturation and a couple of filters, subject to various LFOs, random modulation, and manual tweaking.
Recorded straight out of the system in one take, with light mastering in Ableton to clean up some of the muddiness.
Inspired by some of the above Iām going to try some beating oscillators in my next one.
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Two Max/MSP rungler patches processed in Ableton. Timestretch has been stretched to itās limit.
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Brutal!
A maximalist drone, in a sort of glenn branca way.
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Wow. Some proper head swimming nightmare fuel there!
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hereās 3 sine waves drifting at low frequencies through the analog heats high gain.
this one made me feel really unwell and need the toilet.
you might be ok, depending on the size of your woofers and room modes.
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