modules make their live debut
2007-10-22 by NoRMaN PHaY
See if you can spot them: http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc314/johnsherwood2007/DSCN1968.jpg http://www.infectionmusic.com/HJJ2007reduced/NormanFay01.jpg The event was a live synthesiser jam - 9 guys altogether, three onstage at once, playing on a sort of rolling rota basis. I lucked out, and got the job of running sequencers at the end. I had 2 top-line sequences, using my Wiard modules - one was random stepped voltages quantised to Amin, the other was a step-up sequence from the Blacet Binary Zone, one of the raddest modules ever made, again quantised to Amin. For the bassline I used the little Plan B voice - I mixed 2 VCO sawtooth waves via the dual timbral gate, into the filter. I set the timbral gate knobs about 1/2way up, and plugged a gate from step one of the sequencer into the CV in of both gates - this gave a little blip "on the one" -handy thing w/vactrol-controlled stuff is that you can hit it with a gate, and you don't get an obnoxious click at the beginning/end. The filter cutoff was controlled by the envelope generator, and by the inverted output of the sequencer. The sound was pretty meaty, and when I hit the resonance boost switch, very very acidic. I was just getting into really working on the acid aspect of it, when they put the house lights up. Oh well. A sonic pass w/flying colo(u)rs, anyway, for plan B sonics. Apparently the event was recorded, though I haven't heard anything yet.