Thanks for the response!
> What are the 'same sorts of sounds' youve been patching up that you
want to get out of? Do you usually play your modular with a keyboard
or no?
There are a few main things I do with the modular:
1. Standard sort of 'moogy' lines played form a keyboard. Usually
things like Sawtooth -> 440 -> 420(HPF)
2. Weird noises, normally played on knobs.
3. Drones, not played from the keyboard. Often these are strongly
rhythmic, based around beating oscillators, LFOs and my Milton.
(These are the most fun to patch, often turning into monster 40-module
behemoths, but I usually only need one or two sounds like this in a
given piece of music).
4. Processing other audio, my guitar, etc.
I'm very happy with 3 & 4; it's 1 & 2 where I seem to be a bit stuck
for ideas. What I do get sounds glorious, but whatever variations I
try - multiple oscillators, miniwaves, different filters in parallel
or series - always has the same 'feel' to it.
If you want to hear the sorts of sounds I'm stuck in, then here's an
old piece of ours that's depressingly typical:
http://cormallen.com/twofish/RadioColumbia.mp3 > Sometimes I find it useful to block out a module or two that I
always use and force myself to start playing with others in different
ways.
Ah, now that's a good idea. I've been trying the inverse; taking a
module I don't use often and trying to use it. I like your idea better!
Thanks,
Harry