All of these songs were in a live jam situation. It’s my third Tier One Operations and I feel this is the most complete. I feel that this is the first EP that has got everything I want on it. The other EP’s are kinda like practice hours. Next release will have a different sound because I recently acquired the WMD Performance Mixer. I’m feeling acquainted with it and enjoying the send/return and using that in stereo is just a game changer.
This is an eclectic mix, as is the nature of Modular, but mainly Techno.
Please check it out, any feedback welcome. All of these songs were also recorded on video and are on my IG account.
Yes mate! Thanks a bunch. That is awesome to hear. Especially coming from you. You’re sooooo good. ATM I’m just putting things together like jamming stuff out and then doing a track. It’s progress which is good. I haven’t built a set yet. Any tips? I’d love to do that one day, just like you @kryten42
Slowly evolving Deep Techno improvisation on my newly configured system: https://modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/… First test drive of the Industrial Music Electronic (IME) / Harvestman Modules (Piston Honda and Hertz Donut as main oscillators, Erica Synths Baseline used for - eh baselines :-)). Main Percussion drivers in the lower case are the Steady State Fate Ultra-Kick, Ultra-Perc and Entity-Metalloid. Erogenous Tones Structure used for visuals. Live recorded in a single take on 1010 BlueBox. Delay and reverb also added on BlueBox.
Follow your own path is my best advice, I don’t plan so much these days, just try and have more material than you need , or at least enough to fall back to if you need it. Jam and record and repeat
Introduced some white noise through Skulpter filter bank for this one, got the Syncussion back in the set up too also did some live playing…with a keyboard like
After dreaming and lusting of almost 30 years now (with a lot of mind racing and evaluating pros and cons - and finally biting the bullet),
an OG Roland TR-909 arrived recently in my studio
First test drive of the ancient machine being sequenced by the Digitone 2.
With the 16 sequencer tracks (here I used eight midi machines for sequencing the TR-909).
With all the modern Elektron sequencer feature, conditional trigs, different length per track, muting and unmuting functionalities - a true game changer.
(Thanks Roland for having a MIDI-implementation on this machine :-)).
Live recorded in a single take on 1010 BlueBox.
Only Digitone FX being used.
Four tracks used for melodic content on the Digitone 2.
As a brain for each system - a no-brainer! (Circlon 2 is not a topic for me anymore).
I hope this is a good place to share it. Just found this on Youtube with only 500 views so I thought it deserved some more attention. Really good walkthrough from Colin (almost 2h workshop) on how we builds his sets. Audio is not best but good enough to inspire
sounds like when you have two sequencers cross-talking and locked to the same root notes and/or rhythm.
This little experiment involves a DB-01 and SH-01a, which are both midi and CV capable.
The DB is playing a 32 step sequence, but it’s all restricted to the same note: C1 – not so compelling until you start sending pitch CV into it from another machine, in this case the SH.
The SH-01a is playing a pretty arbitrary set of notes + chords (notably) + rests, entered with the onboard step sequencer.
In some parts of the little recording below, the SH is locked to the DB-01s trigger timings; in other parts, it’s not. Pretty easy to hear in the L and R channels. The DB is always locked to the current (or most recently played) root note of the SH. Neat.
No thought to the mix or effects really, just amusing myself in the moment… I was just kinda amazed at how the simple sequencer locking technique can produce insane variations when having the other parameters of the synths interact in the stereo field. very hands-on, these two guys. went from zero to this this p.d.q., so I dunno, maybe its ok to post it here even though it’s not really techno. it is improvised almost completely though, this is cut from like 30 minutes.
Hey pretty much anything sounds techno if you throw a 4/4 kick under it : )
Seriously though those parts could sound right at home in a techno set, if that’s what you were aiming for.
I like how the two voices sound interlinked but still their own beast. On the modular side, this reminds me a little of when you have two voices being fed by two separate (but related) outputs from the Metropolix.
For a mix, maybe you could make the DB the “bass” and have it lock down the lower freqs, while the SH plays the upper registers - and then throw some delay/verb on it. Or even change the timing of its sequencer to get polyrhythms?
