PLAN B analog blog

I said:

From PG: Actually, all of the plyers took part in Secret Life of
Semiconductors. I was doing nine voices in total, four driven from
midi and
five others which were variations of two different live patches. TPS
ws takng
one degree of the E major chord on his Serge, Alessandro had three
voices - one
from the EAR system and two from the Buchla 200e and Gary had yet
another voice
coming from the Wiard that had two vairations. So these guys coupled
by my parts
made the bulk of the main voice - the E maj chord.

I don't want to confuse these facts and I stated them a bit unclearly.
The midi parts mentioned were midi-driven live parts - What I meant
by two 'live' patches is outside of the midi gates which drove the
EG's, it was stand alone with no midi control of pitch or dynamics.

One of these voices were fixed pitched on E with three different
processes in the audio path - One straight form the two ramps (which i
didn't end up using), one with the sine outs running though two
Deopfer Wave multipliers, and one having the triangle outs of these
two VCOs run through two Blacet Miniwaves (top left of the top row of
the man cabinet set into Euro-height faceplates) which were both set
to Bank 8 with stepped random via a Heisenberg to select which wave in
the bank.

The second non-midi-fied voice was a single VCO fattened up a bit via
a Yamaha SPX90 which was underneath in the cabinet below, being
controlled by Milton which had it's direction randomized by the Source
Out on the Heisenberg. The Milton was picking off different degrees of
the E major chord. Oroginally there were two VCOs in this patch, but
I had to break one lose for the midi controlled voices (I actually
added additional VCOs to the system the morning of the perfrmance for
the other midi-controlled parts).

All in all, it worked. Thank heavens we switched my piece to the
first half...i actually enjoyed myself during intermission knowing we
had pulled it off. I was a bit bummed that Richard's part was so low
in the performance, but it's better in the recording. It was screaming
in the last rehearsal.