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modular sequencing christmas thoughts
Author: astroid on December 23 2007 Viewed 2255 times. 16 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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so i bought a switch.
a doepfer dual 2-1 vc switch. it's bidirectional, meaning that it can go 2-1 and 1-2. the purchase was mainly to get some timbres that i'd been getting on the g2, for instance the idea of putting a pulse width on anything. i tried this, smiled, and then started to make some more patches. and then MY FUÇKING FACE EXPLODED.
i realized that, in its essence, the switch is a 2-event bidirectional multiplexing sequencer what that means is that, unlike a sequencer, timbres, gates, note values, anything can get routed through.
who cares? WHO CARES? WHO F***ING CARES, YOU IMPLORE?
i care a little.
what i realized could be done is that you could atomize the sequencer!
btw i hate the normal function of a sequencer. all they do is spit out some notes/gates you put into dials/toggles. bleh bleh bleh.
but this idea, chunking it into component parts, this is special. you could do everything a normal sequencer does, including running it from different lfos, through making the different steps into event [x] that can be defined only by limits of talent. maybe clock pulse 1 advances the sequencer, pulse 2 runs intervals until a certain note is reached, pulse 3 starts a windmill and wakes up frankenstein who must hand a flower to a young girl who is actually a robot with pulse 4 in her hand, etc. etc. and also, you could modularize order of steps, make testing circuits via comparators that advance to certain states: a true analog computer instead of your LAME ASS 16X2 STEP SEQUENCER.
so yeah, i had visions of the most absurd doepfer g6, a collection of s&h, switch, multiples, cv sources, comparators, invertors, diodes, etc. basically the most expensive (because these type of modules, though inexpensive, tend to be small) and hard to use (most of these modules also have only patch points, no knobs or buttons hahah) doepfer EVAR.
lol
fun facking times.
ps: i also have a dual s&h on the way MUAAHAHAHAHAHAHA | |
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12/23/07
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Spark
I KNEW IT!! YOU'RE DR.OCTOPUS AREN'T YOU!!!!!
edited: Dec 23 2007
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Spark
P.S.
I was wanting to ask some advice regarding an Analog synth purchase this coming year.
I was thinking of the Doepfer A-100 Basic System 2.. but maybe you have some other thoughts on what I should get..
Generally.. I'm not particularly interested in full on analog madness you're describing... but I want to make lush analog tones, with the flexibility to get messy and create a monster patch that makes some ungodly noize from hell. Primarily for sampling and using to write really beautiful musical phrasings.
A "you need.." or a "Basic System 2 will do nicely.."
Merry X-1 Mas.
Don't spare the technical details, I'll figure it out.
12/23/07
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Roshi
My brain exploded reading this
12/23/07
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astroid
that's a massive question that only jesus and santa claus together could answer.
my contribution will be less measured but i will try.
i'm glad i went with eurorack. there's a healthy used/barter market out there, and you can get everything for cheaper than new prices. if i were starting mine over, i'd buy a g6 case, 2 oscs, 2 multimode filters, 2 envs, 2 multiples, and 2 vcas first, before anything else, and then figure out what else i wanted.
there's some things in the basic systems that wouldn't be soooo essential to me, personally (audio divider, waveform processor, trigger divider, trigger sequencer, slew limiter). envs and oscs can double as lfos, too. this is my perspective only. also, getting alllll that crap at once can be daunting. i've expanded at something like one module per month, and it's always shocking how much one more little inconspicuous piece does.
why 2 multimode filters? because they are the best reason to get a modular at all. they have so many patch points (multiple ins, outs for each filter type) that they become serious tools for massively fucking shit up.
i open the floor to dissent now
12/23/07
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astroid
i'd like to state for the record that i didn't really intend this blog to turn into an orgy of mass consumerism. the ideas i talk about could be done in a variety of free hosts, like PD and supercollider. i most certainly will never assemble an analog modular doepfer computer, choosing to do this stuff via midi and gear i already own. the ideas are really not dependent upon owning something.
12/24/07
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jdg
R.I.P. JESUS
12/24/07
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minisystem
i've been using the modcan sequencer: link
while not as sophisticated as your dream analog computer, with the clock module and asynchronous step selection and synchronous retriggering modes you can do crazy things with step selection.
while i love working with it i'm ashamed to say i have yet to master it, although the only other examples i've seen of its use are incredibly cool and complex sequencing patches set up by its inventor (his workshop is around the corner from my house), so maybe i shouldn't feel so bad...
modular sequencing is cool. this blog has inspired me to do more of it. 
12/24/07
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breakscience
sample and hold this buddy!
I like your modular freak outs, please continue.
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breakscience
hey, building me own (simple) analog sequencer wouldn't be to hard I imagine. I already have tons of spare digital ICs from college. A standard trigger pulse is +5 volts on modulars right?
12/24/07
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xik
Man why doepfer? theres either better performing or cheaper stuff out there.
12/24/07
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astroid
i wish i understood electronics enough to solder my own board. it'd be a bunch of multiplexers, shift registers, flipflops, logic gates, comparators, etc. i guess these modules are easy enough to make if you know what you're doing, but i don't.
12/24/07
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ricemutt
haha, it's so tempting to just say something pointless and poke fun... cause I dont' really know what the fuck you're talking about.
Actually I get you, that switch is just kind of like... a logic gate and a switch and a f'd up amplitude modulation and a bunch of other things all built into one, if you use it creatively. That's cool.
DONT GO TOO FAR DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE!!!
haha
just kidding, that crazy granular/sawtooth envelope mashup thing you sent me sounded pretty wicked..
hey, make something that isn't ubermashupfuckupcrazy and show us!
12/24/07
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ricemutt
other thing is... interesting that switch got you so excited, because it seems like the most digital type of module possible--that you could get in an analog modular. In fact, you could have implemented that functionlity pretty easiily with your G2, or like you said, with synthedit/PD... and you have plent of ins/outs on your soundcard right?
12/24/07
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astroid
i have a couple of i/os, yeah, but the conversion makes it sound a little different, for sure. i don't have a streamlined solution. the g2 has 4 ins and 4 outs. you can do massive processing once it's in, and i am working from that angle.
the things about making the computer analog would be to be able to "test" it at a lot of points and then use control/audio streams with no midi-resolution issues.
12/24/07
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ricemutt
yeah, true, and there's the latency thing to boot, which changes everything and I guess I already knew that, I was just playing devil's advocate ;)
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