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parallel/relative

By codydjango on March 22, 2026 11:55 pm

Another week, dialed in. Unfortunately, it's a speed trash week. They can't all be winners!

This whole week was really a calibration and tuning experiment, hah.

I spent the first half of my free time learning how to use a multimeter and calibrate the nerdseq. It was quite out of tune!

I spent the next couple nights resoldered a module I bought a few years back that never worked correctly, a Mutable Instruments "Edges". It has 4 separate chip-inspired low-fidelity oscillators. I got it working properly! So needless to say, I wanted to test it out on this weeks' beat.

I didn't have time for a big composition, so I chose to work with the ornament and crime program "harrington 1200" to generate chords pitches to run through the individual oscillators on the Edges. It's based on neo-riemannian triad transformations, which I know nothing about. As soon as it didn't sound like garbage I added some stochastic envelopes cycling through the triad notes and ran it all through a modulating filter and then a tape emulator.

I added the kick and bass, some hats, and messed around with an ms20 on top. Recorded 5 minutes and cut it down under 2. Didn't spend much time with editing. I think I'll reuse all the components for next week, but spend more time on the composition and sound design.

Take care y'all!

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quite hectic like im in a chase. lots to love here, especially the sound design for me

reading the description makes me curious about your process! from the above description I take it that youre predominately modular focused?

i have no idea what's happening here but i really like it!
i'm pretending this is the music that plays over the loudspeakers at abandoned malls

this is your version of speed trash?? gets the body movin' with mad fire! heart

RajaTheResidentAlien wrote:

this is your version of speed trash?? gets the body movin' with mad fire! heart

hah, too generous. love the gif, it applies to roughly 60% of the tracks I put out big_smile

jwh wrote:

i have no idea what's happening here but i really like it!
i'm pretending this is the music that plays over the loudspeakers at abandoned malls

oh dude, that's the dream! "vacant mall" is definitely my genre. like vaporwave and muzak crossed with a spencer's

monstret wrote:

quite hectic like im in a chase. lots to love here, especially the sound design for me

reading the description makes me curious about your process! from the above description I take it that youre predominately modular focused?

yea, mostly! In previous years absolutely, I was all modular. I'd sequence everything in nerdseq, record live off the floor, usually with some live modulations, and then cut, limit, and render in reaper.

I've moved houses and have a bit more room, so my setup has changed a little. I now have a rad old 90's 24 channel sound console I picked up for $200 where I mix channels coming from the modular, drum machines, and other synths and stuff I've picked up. It puts out a main mix as well as four stereo submixes, which I run to reaper through my audio interface, so it's now possible to tweak levels, eq, compression on the submixes etc if I choose to, without having to record the whole thing over again. It's a flexible arrangement, and I'm stoked on the workflow! Thanks for asking!


fun

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