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Just finished and emailed all the application stuff in for our Spaceworks Tacoma application.

Hopefully we get the space it would be great to be able to have the Tacoma Noise Rodeo tie into Art Walk and have a space for the other projects we have in the works. But damn what a lot of work. Luckily I’ve met some awesome people lately who helped us throughout the application process. After writing and rewriting something countless times getting a fresh pair of eyes on something is great.

Now we wait and see what happens with the application. Hopefully we get the space.

But while i’m waiting there is still promotions to be done for the Tacoma Noise Rodeo on Jan 27th and press releases to be emailed out. But thats for tomorrow.

This how I look all the time.

Last night I was looking at my DrumDokta and wondered what it would sound like if I triggered all the drum sounds at once. So I ran some voltage from an offset from channel 2 of maths into a multiple and triggered into all the triggers at once. I ended up running out of output on my multiple so i had to trigger the bass drum off the SQR out of the envelator and the accent off of a LFO that was running pretty slowly.

I also ran 3 of the 5 raw oscillators from the expansion into my little bimix mixer and then ran those into SEM20. Then into a VCA so i could make it go WAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAAWA

Snappy, BPF1, and BPF2 are all being modulated for teh awesome.

So even though its been made with the idea that 10ms triggers will are the target it will let you experiment in wonderful ways like this.

Sounds good with umm… not a trigger.. not a gate.. umm.. continuous voltages I suppose you’d call it.

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How I roll

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Gate outs from Rene into DrumDokta. DrumDokta is also feed gates from Timetable and SQR output of Envelator which was triggered by the Timetable.
Quantized output of Rene into Wiard Unkle multed with stackcable into Filter CV in of assblaster.
Assblaster’s noise gate is opened by the timetable.
Timetable’s CV1 output into pokey.synth.

Getting the hang of the gate outs and quantization of the Make Noise Rene.

Red is the sequencing color of choice

My make noise rene showed up today in the post and boy is it a fun little beastie.

There are a few features I still haven’t wrapped my head around yet. The logic gates still somewhat confuse me. It didn’t help when I was trying to figure it out I had a different module plugged triggering my Envelator. Once I moved the cable from my timetable to the rene everything made a lot more sense. But by that time i was so frustrated and annoyed i just gave up.

Made a quick recording of playing with it.

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You can tell by the blinky lights

I’m playing a benefit for Toys for Tots this weekend at Dorky’s Arcade (754 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, WA 98402) kind of excited to try and do more beat based stuff. Its really been coming together for me the more I play with the timetable and the drumdokta.

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Should be a great night for a good cause.

A rare photo of the Pittsburgh Modular VC Bend in the field.

Quick demos of a pretty awesome little module
Notes in soundcloud let you know whats going on as I do it.

VC Bend on Envelopes

One output of Maths is going straight into the mVCA. The other output is going into the VC Bend which is being CV’d by the viLFO.

Modules used:
Wiard Unkle Sqr1
Bubblesound uLFO Sine
Make Noise Maths
Pittsburgh Modular viLFO
Pittsburgh Modular VC Bend
Doepfer a145

VC Bend on Audio

Running Audio though the VC Bend

uLFO is going into the In
Unkle is going into the CV

All knobs at 12 o’clock to start.

Modules used:
Bubblesound uLFO
Malekko Wiard Unkle
Pittsburgh Modular VC Bend

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Pretty wicked little guy. It has been continuously confusing and delighting me the more I play with it. It definitely requires a little tweaking to get it to do what you want and you’re better off giving it a little thought rather than just tweaking to see what will happen.

I’ve done it both ways and while tweaking to see what happens is always a wonderful thing with pretty much any module I’m getting way more satisfying results from thinking about what i’m doing as I do it. Again pretty standard with any module but a bit more son on this guy.

>_<

Playing with some of the interesting things the AnlogBytes pokey.synth module can do. The limitations of the Pokey are wonderfully used. If you turn it down far enough you get these great clicks depending on the waveform.

This video explains it very well at around 4 minutes in.

I was using them as triggers to trigger Maths channel 1 and the Bass Drum on my DinSync.info DrumDokta. Since pattern of the triggers depends on the waveform selected I have a LFO going into the wave selection CV in.

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The back is totally different i swear

Kittenrock just released a little EP of droney chip stuff I put together.

Its all nanovoice based gameboy stuff for the most part.

It can be found here.
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Jamming with my Nord G1, Nanoloop, and a KP3

So i thought i published but i guess i saved it as a draft about umm.. a year ago. So yah.
Old news is better than no news eh?

So the idea was solid. Use my Nord G1 as routing mixer and FX box with my KP3. I whipped up some stuff in nanoloop to run through it. All four of the patches have a mixer built into it with the idea being that i would be able to route audio when i want to into the KP3. I could have easily done this with my mixer’s sends but it was easier to control with the nord. More fun as well.

I have one knob controlling the output 1/2 which was audio out for the nord. Then a second knob was output 3/4 which was going into the KP3. The idea behind the patch was being able to use the KP3 for live looping. The loops were good for two reasons. Firstly i could have up to 4 loops going at once, that let me layer everything, and editing the loops live is a snap. The second reason for the looping was for when i switched patches on the Nord. When ever you switch patches on a Nord G1 it takes it a second to look at the DSP used and reconfigure the voices in the patch. During this second its quiet, which is not something i wanted to do.

Over all it went really well. The filters on the nord worked really well with what i was doing. The big thing was that I did have a hard time remembering what does what. When i had ran through my practice sets i had the computer screen open to the Nord editor so that i could see what knob was mapped to where.

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Obligatory picture

Its just full of surprises. I had a patch and I was playing with it making a lot of noise that I eventually blew up. Turned all the oscillators down into LFO range and all the LFO’s as slow as they would go. But surprise I’m still hearing noises. Nothing like what I had been playing with at all but lovely in its own right.

This was on purpose and was I wanted it to sound like.

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This was a happy accident that was begging to played with.

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This is really one of the reasons why I enjoy the modular so much. You can pull such interesting noises out of with a little effert and a lot of patch cables. Its not something that I was wanting or planning on but it happened and its awesome and sometimes thats the best part of the day.