Gave myself a little challenge today
This old thang is from uh....march of 2022, according to sharex. I still like it, but for the life of me I'm never able to recreate that patch no matter how hard i try
I decided that if i was ever gonna have my very own physical eurorack i should probably learn to work with limitations more. I have a bad habit of just Making A New File whenever i do anything creatively which probably contributes to my worse habit of not finishing things--plus I have a much better idea of what I'm doing thanks to a book bought recently
The challenge was to just Scrap Every Cable Here and make a totally new patch that only sounds kind of the same. The patch notes thinking about it while i was at work were as follows:
- So like. I never needed this many clocks.
- And using a waveshaper like AstroVibe as a VCA was kind of nonsense. But I still want it there.
- FM-OP can be replaced by a regular degular VCO with a regular degular filter.
here was the silly little redo
I failed to recreate the same thing for a few reasons. Here's what i learned:
- That delay module sucks ass. don't need it
- AstroVibe is soooooo much better to work with after being plugged through a VCA. So now I don't have to lose what i used it before for
- Ditto of above with BossFight.
- i didn't actually use NoteSeq in the rack I have. I used 8seq, which is okay.
- Using Shifty as an analogue to Clocked is perfect for things I want to modulate but not every time.
- I got rid of a couple of these too--notably the NSYNTHI modules. The only one I actually like of those is the simpler, and even that has a better replacement. HOWEVER!!!! I did add a few extra VCAs and filters. And an oscilloscope to see what I was doing. So much for working with limitations.
- so i guess my Actual lesson there is that I should have fifty million VCAs do anything in my all but eventual physical grid
An aside though: i actually think what i added was genuinely needed with these. Like using the VCA to control an LFO that's CV'ing resonance on one of the Filters makes that particular oscillator sound nice and Pan-y.
also also: i wound up appending Samuel as another sequencer just so Plaits wouldn't be going on forever. Sorry. The word is Mintchip.