Neutral Labs Elmyra 2 - Study 2 (At The Ocean's Core)

For this second study I wanted to try for something less obliquely "ominous" (although I'm not sure I necessarily achieved that). Early in the process of putting the patch together, the combination of the pulsing bass running into the delay along with the fading, distant noise put me in mind of a submarine's sonar and the waves of the sea, which provided the inspiration for the rest of the piece.

The occasional, glitchy arpeggios come from slowly modulating the delay time with the delay in tempo synced mode which results in harmonically related pitch shifts as the delay buffer gets squashed and stretched by simple factors. Although it's not immediately obvious in how this patch came out, this patch also helped me further understand how you could have the sequencer act in a more "conventional" manner - it's probably missing the point of the instrument a little, but I've long held that the intentional misuse of an instrument is how you get to know it in more depth so I'll see where those experiments bring me!

This time, reverb is provided by the lovely GFI System Specular Reverb in its default mode.

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