045 / Moog Matriarch / No. 3 / S&H Sync Patch Jam

Performance includes a filter sweeping intro, improvisations, arpeggios, and sequences on the wonderful-sounding Moog Matriarch. Enjoy! There are detailed patch notes below ...

No. 3
#Moog #Matriarch #tendrils #Meris #Mercury7

INSTRUMENTS:
Moog Matriarch
Strymon Volante
Meris Mercury 7

NOTES:

This jam is all the Matriarch, aside from a touch a spring reverb from the Volante and more than a touch of Cathedra reverb from the Mercury7.

If you're interested, here's a detailed breakdown of the patch:

The basic idea of this patch is sample and hold pitch modulating oscillator 4 which is in synced to oscillator 3. Gate Out of Arp/Seq to Sync In on Modulation. Sample and Hold goes through Attenuator 1 (set at +1.5) and on to Pitch in of oscillator 4. The Attenuator itself is being modulated by a slow triangle wave from LFO 2, which is fed through Attenuator 2 (set at +3) to lower the amplitude a little. The patch sounds fantastic played a number of different ways, in monophonic or duophonic mode. With envelope amount full or almost full you can play the filter from around 0-5. The filter sweeps here are in high pass into lowpass filter mode and I'm cranking the resonance up and sweeping the spacing for effect. Most of the arps and sequences are done in stereo low pass mode with low resonance. There are places where I switch to parallel high pass low pass for a boost effect and places where I switch to high pass into low pass again for high resonance spacing sweeps. Oscillators 1 and 2 are both saws at 16' and 8' respectively. Oscillators 3 and 4 are both square waves at 8' and 4' respectively. Oscillator 4 is synced to 3 and is pitched up to +2. Filter envelope is set to 0 attack, 2 decay, and 1.5 release. VCA envelope is .5 attack, 5 decay, and 5 release. You can play the sustain sliders for short or long notes. The delay is set ping pong and sync -- time 7, spacing 0, feedback 2, mix 5. The main modulation wave is set to sine with rate set around 3 -- Cutoff Amt at 3 and PW Amount at 1. You can play the mod wheel for nice effect. I like this patch a lot, so I'll take a good picture and post it somewhere. :)

RECORDING:
Everything recorded in one take with no additional processing other than adjusting the level.