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As I Pass You By

By rdomain on February 16, 2020 5:23 am

One take modular synth performance based on a Thai scale (7-TET).

Sound sources were:

Kick and bass - DPO
Percussion - Mysteron
Melody - Mangrove
Other textures - DS-M, Elements and Shapeshifter.

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This is rad. Love the bass line and just how textural it all is. Feels like musical weather effects. The middle section really stands out for me.

By the way, what's a DPO? I mean what you used for the kick and bass. (Sorry if it's a stupid question.)

hent03 wrote:

This is rad. Love the bass line and just how textural it all is. Feels like musical weather effects. The middle section really stands out for me.

By the way, what's a DPO? I mean what you used for the kick and bass. (Sorry if it's a stupid question.)


Thanks!  I was pretty chuffed with how this one turned out.  Just the opening girth and grit of the groove. Yum.

This is the DPO.  It's an analog complex oscillator.  Love it.
http://www.makenoisemusic.com/modules/dpo

The 7-TET scale has a really interesting sound. Bass is unrelenting!

Excellent! Beautifully weird and effective. The slow beat works very nicely here...

Sounds great, I really hope I can get my modular tracks to sound this full one day. Excellent use of the Mysteron too.

This is fuckin' great. I love that pitch collection so much.

license wrote:

The 7-TET scale has a really interesting sound. Bass is unrelenting!


Yes indeed on both counts smile

Ashen Simian wrote:

Excellent! Beautifully weird and effective. The slow beat works very nicely here...


Thanks! Dig those half time grooves.

Ryan wrote:

Sounds great, I really hope I can get my modular tracks to sound this full one day. Excellent use of the Mysteron too.


Thanks man!  For that full sound, the DPO is killer.  Analog in all it's beautiful glory.  The digital Mysteron and Mangrove cuts through it all nicely.  Combo works well!

fc wrote:

This is fuckin' great. I love that pitch collection so much.


Thanks Vince. Appreciated!  I really loved it too.  Somewhat close to normal yet still far enough removed to sound totally unique.  Hopefully I'll get to experiment with that some more.

Sounds amazing! I don't know much about modular synths but what you got going here is top notch from a tonal and mood standpoint!

Love that raw karplus - perfect

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