trance
By 0F on February 1, 2026 10:55 am
Testing a new sequencer and synth engine I'm working on for an upcoming gig.
Synth engine is a 7 oscillator, stereo supersaw/"supersquare" with an additional triangle wave oscillator that doesn't go through the filter. There's also a 2op FM mode which isn't in this recording.
Sequencer is two tracks, monophonic sequencing but using two note lanes that get added together per track, plus a global transpose for chord progressions. Each sequence lane can also be a different length and have its own tempo division, so it's possible to create nice phasing and polymeter effects even on a single track.
Each track is 8 note polyphonic (even though the sequence is mono), with its own parameters for its corresponding synth voice. Filter, delay and reverb are the Max versions of stock Ableton plugins.
Both parts of the system take some heavy inspiration from Superberry and Roulette by Fors 
I may make a few more Weekly Beats with this system as it's just so fun to use. This is what I was aiming for when I said last week that my previous system was too unwieldy. Just a nice fun groovebox.
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