#jamuary2024

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Transient - rhythmically modulated distortion.

Percussion takes the front seat in this jam. Heavy modulation from Maestro and clever Crucible sequencing allow for some dynamic sounds, made more interesting by Data Bender and a touch of reverb from Milky Way.

Ts-L's fold output goes through Erbe-Verb, QPAS, then Ruina Versio. A number of parameters throughout this rumble chain are modulated by Just Friends' slopes, made to trigger in sets of 2 due to the normalization, controlled by Marbles. Triangle is pinged through DPLPG straight to the final mix to add just a twinge more melodic content.

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Bias bursts.

The big thing here is using bias on marbles as both a coin flip/probability gate to let the acid sequence fire as well as controlling the multiplication in the burst - very performative. However, the wonky multiplications plus being on an odd sequence length means it sometimes misses the rest of the beat. But that's okay! It's a jam and helped shed some light on another fun concept and it's good enough to share.

On top of that stronger conceptual part, I'm a big fan of the ambiance added by Erbe Verb getting tweaked in the latter half, as well as the fun-if-plain percussion from ABD and O_C (BootsNCat). Looking forward to getting back into the main case and more fully exploring a lot of the techniques I flirted with this month.

By my count, I managed to get something up 22 days of the month - pretty good! It'll be nice to give ideas more time to simmer though. And next year, I hope to get even higher - maybe the full 31 :)

[kuliak]

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Plucked pings.

Another quicker one - marbles drives the patch with all three outputs affecting QPAS. T2 pings the filter while 1 and 3 ping Floom LPGs going into !! inputs on the filter. Filter freq sequenced with X2. BP 4 pole goes into erbe verb, multed into the final mix and electus. Just friends mix out goes through Data Bender micro mode for rhythmic glitches, and simple kick and snare for ABD and Taiko. Filter core spread is controlled by Planar.

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Sustain - human interface.

Made some big changes to my case today. Since I hit the power ceiling of my old PSUs some time ago, modules had been getting set aside and rotated as I acquired new ones. I finally installed a row power and another busboard so I can re-install them and use everything I have concurrently. On top of all that, I also added a Planar 2 to my rack, on which I got an amazing deal secondhand at Perfect Circuit.

It's a more simple one today, but in the spirit of jamming as often as possible this month I wanted to get it down before I headed out for the night. Percussion is all Daiko controlled by Traffic, through Data Bender. The drone is Banshee Reach with waveshaping and envelope controlled by Planar. Finally, the breaks/resonance sweeps on the drum mix was made using triggers to progress mod chains on maestro. I want to explore this as I get into patching constellation too - the more meaningful macro controls I can set up, the better.

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Live mode switching.

The big performance feature here is using the transient/sustain switch on Just Friends to switch its envelopes from firing only when their cycle is completed, leading to sparser distorted swells, to then all firing together for the full "voice" in the main part of the song (Ts-L->Ikarie->Ruina Versio). Other than that, just continuing to be more intentional with drum sequences, creating modulation chains on maestro, and bringing parts in and out in a more planned order. Planar 2 enters the case on Saturday, so I'll be exploring more leads and plenty of other things with it then!

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Blowing and screaming.

Now a bit more musical - looping functions from Just Friends control a number of parameters, and the kick from T1 (Marbles ratio) resets them all at once for a sidechain-like effect that adds structure to the piece. There's a lot of depth to explore in this realm. I think my final -ary Jam will be something different, but I definitely want to explore more feedback and especially explore more with pushing it to be more musical back in the main case. A little variable-width BP on the end of this and more percussive voices would take this from an interesting but abrasive jam into something worth seeing through.

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Another Strega-inspited patch, but more rhythmic.

Ts-L into QPAS into Erbe-Verb. Simple path. Maths is self-patched, acting as a master clock and sending signals all around the patch. It also receives some modulation from Just Friends, with a gate out from Planar and some modes switched throughout. Finally, Planar also controls some space parameters on Erbe-Verb.

This is more exploratory/less dance-y than I've been doing a lot of this month, but it's a good exercise in patching, and as I'll likely miss a few more days this month being out of town, I want to get out what I can in the spirit of "just sitting down and playing."

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Gate logic arpeggios.

Using 4 channels of pam's with internal logic and additional logic from O_C to trigger 4 channels of just friends with higher voices choking out the lower voices. Mix goes through Ikarie's beyond out, while the root also goes through Erbe-verb.