Hour of Grace
By Janky Jams on March 15, 2026 9:41 pm
This track had a fun genesis... I set out to make something rough and dirty with fucked-up, mangled and pitch-shifted hard beats and breakbeats... and at first, it was going alright. And then I added some nice harmonic pads. And then this bass progression. And then I realized that the drums really don't fit into it anymore - so I removed them. Funny how these things go sometimes!
After listening back to the final take, I realized it was missing a bit of movement, so I pulled out the Osmose and recorded a little improv over it. I should do that more often... it's pretty fun to have the modular system as a giant, dynamic backing track to improvise over!
Anyway, I like how this one turned out. People always say, don't try to do polyphony in modular, to which I say: But I wanna!
Patch Notes:
Voices:
- Schlappi Three Body filtered by Xaoc Zagrzeb as the little melody loop
- Sdkc Helical through the Olivella Modular Imagènes did the chord pads, via Strymon Starlab for lush shimmer reverb
- Vhikk X as the bass voice
- Osmose raw for additional melody duty.
Reverb and delay added in Ableton.
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