The topic of this SSL is to explore two specific machines. One that I would consider very versatile, and one that is probably considered limited or difficult:
Machine 1: SY Swarm Machine 2: The dreaded CY Alloy…
This means that I’d like you to post separate contributions for the two - one using only SY Swarm and another using only CY Alloy.
Post your contributions here (Audio file - project file - a little comment). Listen to other people’s contributions, comment and enjoy!
For Science Lab rules, discussions on upcoming Labs etc, please see this thread:
Alrighty! Here’s my attempt at an all CY Alloy track!
I couldn’t figure out how to pull a pattern out of a project after all, and I’ve got a lot of half-baked patterns in the project I’m not yet ready to reveal anyway.
Sorry I can’t hold up that part of the challenge, but maybe I can spread some ideas anyway.
CY Alloy is fine for hats, but not much else! I got a few sweepy effects out of it and tones, but they lose lower frequencies real fast.
This is six tracks of CY Alloy all together, all with Overdrive maxed out and routed through FX. I’m relying on the filter and tracking a lot for tonal bits, and a few Euclidean sequenced rhythmic bits. I don’t PLock nearly as much as others, but there are a few on Decay Length and Modulation in a few steps.
FX has a slewed S&H LFO on the Delay Time parameter, and an Exponential Trig Mode One LFO on the Delay width. This was the most fun for me!
I could have spent more time with this and tried to put together something more musical, but I’m sick of these frequencies already.
Who’s next? Show me what you got!
I hope I did’n mess this up already…is it make a track with Alloy AND Swarm, or just one of the two? Working on a thing with 6 tracks of Alloy and 2 tracks with Swarm at the moment
I made one pattern today and really went deep on the swarm, gotta say, this challenge has sparked my interest in exploring ST as deep as I could, really cool. Got too tired tho and didn’t record:) stoked!
Thanks, The kick is really just using alloy to ping the low pass filter with the resonance cranked. I haven’t tried to do this with every machine but I assume you can do this with any of the syntakt machines since it’s the same filters. The sweet spot is a lot smaller on alloy to find a good transient to ping the filter with compared to some of the more bread and butter machines. Since there’s not enough low end in alloy for a good kick I have the volume cranked with it running through maximum distortion and I turned the other tracks a bit further down than I would normally.
I had a really hard time finding a snare sound I liked this time so I might give that another go
