APRIL - Generative Ambient Eurorack (Rings // Rainmaker // Lubadh // Magneto // Ensemble Oscillator)

Winter in Germany can really get on your mind. It's usually gray and cold. It rains a lot. Some days it feels as if you were absorbing the gray that surrounds you. You become the gray yourself.
But then suddenly there's a ray of light. It gets brighter. It gets warmer. You're drawn outside again. Out into the garden. You sow the first seeds, you plant the first flowers.
But the rain, which soon reappears, is different.
It is hopeful. It sounds like music. It restores what was lost for so long. With it, my garden blossoms anew. And with it, so do I.


Since so many people have commented that they read the patch notes - which actually made me very happy - the patch notes are available again from this video onwards.


Bass/Chord-Like:

The Xaoc Devices Moskwa II sequences the 4ms Ensemble Oscillator and the Make Noise STO. Both are mixed together in a Quad VCA and then go into one side of the MI Blades where some high frequency filtering is done. From there it goes into the ES-9.

The Spread parameter of the Ensemble Oscillator is modulated by Batumi, the Warp parameter by an LFO from Div Kids Ochd.
The STO produces the bass part of the sound, the Ensemble Oscillator the organ-like part. The fine modulation of the Warp parameter produces a kind of vibrato.


Melody 1:

The Vermona Melodicer sends gate and pitch to an MI Rings thru the Intellijel Shifty and plays notes from the G Minor Pentatonic. Both the rhythm pattern and the note pattern are randomly determined at regular intervals by two different triggers of a clock divider.

The audio signal from Rings runs thru a Shakmat Dual Dagger and is then multiplied. The LPF of the Dual Dagger is modulated with a relatively slow LFO of the Ochd.

One copy goes directly into the Expert Sleepers ES9.

Another copy goes into the Intellijel Rainmaker (which I received as a birthday present from my family 😊).

Another copy goes into the Qu-Bit Nautilus. In this, a low pass filter is selected as an internal effect, which is modulated by a five-minute envelope from the Xaoc Devices Zadar.

Another copy goes into the Qu-Bit Data Bender, which in turn runs into the Make Noise Q PAS. The Data Bender is in micromode. Its bend parameter is modulated by the MI Stages and switches back and forth between two values. This is not really audible in the end. I experimented with this in conjunction with Q PAS and the result was unexpected. But I left it as it is. It forms one of the textures in the background. Data Bender also plays the vinyl simulation effect, which becomes this clacking in combination with the Q PAS. The frequency knob of Q PAS is modulated by the random out of the Doepfer A118-2 (Noise/Random/S&H).


Melody 2:

The Vermona Melodicer first sends its gate & note information to Shifty, where every fourth note goes to both oscillators of the TipTop Audio Buchla 256t. One of the two oscillators is tuned to a fifth. Both FM inputs receive a fast modulation from the Ochd. In addition, the waveform of one oscillator is modulated by a slow LFO from Ochd.

The audio signals from the Buchla run together with a white noise thru a pico mixer into one side of a MI Blads. The wavefolding knob is turned up slightly. From there it continues into an Intellijel Quad VCA and finally into the Strymon Magneto, which is in Even mode. The first and fourth heads are activated.

From here it goes directly into the ES-9.


Melody 3:

I played a simple melody by hand into the Instruo Lubadh, which is played backwards and pitched up one octave. The playback is regularly retriggered by a clock divider. The audio signal goes into a Quad VCA where the volume is modulated by Zadar. From there it goes into the ES-9.


Rain:

On the one hand, a sample that I recorded in our garden is played via the DAW (Bitwig).
I also recorded some snaps and scratches on the microphone with Instruos Arbhar, which sound like splashing in the context of the rain sample.



Since I have the Expert Sleepers ES-9, I have a kind of hybrid setup. All inputs of the ES-9 run on individual tracks in Bitwig. Each track is equipped with a low-pass and a high-pass, which I can control during patching via a midi controller.

The OTO BAM is also set up there as a send effect. I can also control the send part of each track via the controller.

There is a light chorus effect on the track with rings.

I mixed & mastered with the following plug-ins:

Oeksound Soothe2
Fabfilter Pro-Q
Fabfilter C2
Fabfilter Saturn 2
Wavesfactory Trackspacer 2
Ozone 11


You can see my whole System here:
https://modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/...


I hope you like the patch!

As always:
Feedback of any kind - concerning the patch as well as the mix - is very welcome!
Especially constructive and critical feedback helps me to develop further!