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Here's my tip for making ("conventionally") musical use of randomness if you don't have a quantizer available: avoid that V/Oct input. There's tons of ways to go about this. You could modulate timbres, sound selection, rhythms, harmonics, etc.. In this patch, random chord selection in Plaits' chord mode is used as a substitute for quantizing.

Patch notes:

Plaits is in chord mode, and I'm using the stepped random CV from Wogglebug to modulate Harmonics, which in this mode selects between different chord types. Another little tip here, to "tame" the randomness, is that the modulation is actually not spanning the entire range of the parameter: The stepped random output produces only positive voltages in the range of 0-10V when the Ego/Id is turned fully up (if I'm not mistaken), but Plaits' harmonics input expects ±5V. In other words, by setting the Harmonics knob to 12 o'clock the CV only sweeps the upper range of chord selection and it "clips" at higher voltages, which greatly increases the chances of selecting the last chord. This works out well because the last chord is a simple major chord which feels like a nice place to "rest", and then the melody happens in the movement of extended intervals.

To trigger the chords I'm using the Wogglebug's clock output, with a little bit of modulation from the woggle CV out. The woggle CV makes little random jumps, with little groups of notes spaced by more or less regular rests as the woggle settles down. You have to be careful about that modulation attenuator though: Just a tiny bit does it!

Finally, the sound is passed through the Black Hole DSP 2's "Stalker" reverb, which is a reverb algorithm with feedback control. And that feedback is turned up quite high to make a sustained bed of sound under the chords. As you can see I have Crush set quite high too, which reduces the DSP sample rate to effectively increase the length of the reverb tail and add some of that pleasant, but indescribable lo-fi quality to the sound. Some gentle modulation of that Crush parameter is my new favorite thing. It makes for some lovely chorus-like warbling, which sounds great in stereo. Here I'm using the smooth random CV from Wogglebug for that modulation and I have it turned up almost to the point of seasickness, which you can see is still pretty low on the CV attenuator!

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