Analog synth orchestra w/ Deckard's Dream, Dreadbox Abyss, Typhon, ARP Odyssey, Squid, Eurorack

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A live, semi-improvised track performed entirely on hardware.

The concept of this arrangement was to use exclusively analog synths for voices, some of my favourite sounds, with the flexibility and weirdness of eurorack. I've had this setup sitting on my table for a couple of months, but I've been constantly distracting myself with smaller setups. No more!

Here, I use the Toraiz Squid—a more playful sequencer than it gets to be in this song—to sequence eight different lines across four different devices: four sequences on the Deckard's Dream (pad, harmony, high melody, cyclical thing in 5), two sequences on the Abyss (melody and harmony), and one sequence on each of the Odyssey (bass) and Typhon (lead). A late addition was the 4ms Ensemble Oscillator, which provides a drone during the breakdown section of the song. Lots of fun sounds in this one.

A livestream songwriting session for this song was recorded with my supporters on Patreon, if you're curious to see how the song came together.

Toraiz Squid — All sequencing
Black Corporation Deckard's Dream Mk2 into Noise Engineering Electus Versio — voice 1 (pad, harmony, high melody, cyclical arp)
Dreadbox Abyss into Mutable Instruments Beads — voice 2 (melody, harmony)
Korg ARP Odyssey into Strymon Magneto (path 1), and into Noise Engineering Ruina Versio and Qu-Bit Data Bender (path 2) — voice 3 (bass)
Dreadbox Typhon (using its own effects only) — voice 4 (lead)
4ms Ensemble Oscillator into Intellijel 1u Multi-FX — voice 5 (drone)
Other utility modules: ALM Busy Circuits Pamela's New Workout (clock and modulation), Intellijel 1u Mixer (mixer), Befaco STMix (mixer), Intellijel Audio I/O II, Strymon AA.1 (i/o), and probably more I'm forgetting
Kenton MIDI Thru (MIDI thru!)

Performed and recorded live, with eq, compression, and limiting.

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