Steady On, Mate by Matt Colville published on 2021-01-01T10:09:55Z A more complex patch than my normal ambient nonsense. The Eloquencer is doing the heavy lifting here, discreetly randomizing certain notes on certain tracks. The BIA gives us the steady bass thumps. Plonk for the snare. The Surface gives us the second bass line while Plaits in Modal Resonator mode provides the bell sound we hear throughout. The Magneto gives us some echo and reverb and tape effects clocked from a /4 divisor thanks to the Rotating Clock Divider. So each delay happens on the beat creating a lush sound without SOUNDING like a delay. One Octone set to a 2-step sequence modulates the Surface decay so sometimes the second bass sound is short and plucky and sometimes it rings out more. The second Octone has 8 steps set to random and adds its pitches to the eloquencer's Plaits sequence using the vpme Precision Adder. Every 48 beats the bell sound shifts somewhat randomly but pleasingly. Finally the killer effects module from Qu-Bit, the Data Bender mangles the whole thing up randomly thanks to three channels from Pam's each set to /24 or /36, random skip = 60%, with levels via CV2 from Chance's discreet random output modulating Bend, Break, and Repeats. It's a lot of Data Bending but that's what this patch is about. Sometimes it's just weird and glitchy in an adorable way, but SOMETIMES you hear it do something that's quite beautiful and you think "hang on, more of that please" and it's gone. Genre Electronic Comment by miesterabel courageous effort 2021-06-21T19:46:41Z Comment by forestine Data bending bells! So good! 2021-01-01T17:06:40Z