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Peripatetic

By Janky Jams on February 15, 2026 3:10 pm

A chill one for you this week. Set up a bunch of rhythmic sequences and static pitch chords/sequences, and then improvised the harmonies on the Oxi One Mk2's Performance view by offsetting them in-scale.

"Peripatetic" because the melodies and harmonies restlessly wander throughout.

I tried a slightly different recording process this time around: instead of using the main mix directly from the modular and recording stems just on the side, this time I used the audio from the multitrack recording directly. That way I was able to get better gain staging on the stems (and consequently less noise), and it just generally simplified the process a lot. It's less modular purist though, and I don't know yet how I feel about that... We'll continue to experiment next week!

YouTube:

Patch notes
Voices were:
- Serge Medusa through Serge Stereo VCFQ
- Serge NTO through Serge VFCS, with occasional spikes from the Medusa through the Serge Wave Multipliers' rectifier circuit mixed in.
- Cursus Iteritas Alia through Doepfer SEM as the bass

Drums are my usual:
- Ohmforce Bohm as The Kick
- WMD Clutch as The Hihat
- WMD Kraken and Fracture as The Clap

Rhythmic patterns for the voices came from the 1U Steppy this time. Drums sequenced from WMD Metron as usual.
FX added in DAW, a touch of Valhalla Supermassive and Ableton's standard delay.

SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/jankyjams/peripatetic

BandCamp:
https://jankyjams.bandcamp.com/track/peripatetic

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deep! great mix, sound design is on point too

Great chill vibes, really love the composition. Easily could listen to this for hours.

Lovely chill progressive beat!
Could listen to this for hours smile

Amazing tune! It's like a happier Petar Dundov tune with fewer drums.

As someone who is particularly infuriated by technological speed bumps in workflow... for example all the typos I am making while trying to write this... i say fuck the modular purists. You can't hear modular purism. If it's streamlining your workflow its a good damn thing.

(And if anyone says otherwise name names and knees will be ...)

This sounds amazing. I am envious of your ability to do so much with what sounds very minimal in all the best ways, this is very complex but sounds natural and effortless, its beautiful.

I'm not a modular guy, but this is the kinda thing that can make me go "oh. What if I am?", the composition and flow are lush, particularly when the bass and drums hit and start to drive the chords.
Lushhhh

As mentioned on the stream, nothing janky about this jam. I like the wistful chord progression and the timbres you dialed in work very well with each other and that thematic setting.

Agreed with neon liminal here, your current approach is pure enough to anybody who cares about the music. Whatever gets the better result from you with less frustrating labor, that's a winner. Hybrids is where the most interesting stuff can happen.

cool rhythmic playfulness. beautiful sound design too. cool to read about the rec process.

I don't care much about purists but I do understand the principle of recording straight out of the thing vs processing the stems after, for instance I like to be able to do one-takes in my current process because I want to take it live eventually, rather than processing anything in the daw. so I feel your constraint is in the same spirit. but when the goal is to make a nice track for wb, anything that shortens the trip from A to B is the way to go tbh

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