Trying out the new Macro Oscillator2 algorithm on Disting EX, which gives you four independent Plaits voices. I'm using the ipad app, Fugue Machine, to sequence the four Plaits.
Detailed patch notes in the video:
Thanks TumeniKnobs!
This semi-generative piece was based around a method I devised to get Pamela’s New Workout to instantly and automatically regenerate a loop of random voltage every few bars. Three interlocking melodies – a bass line, a treble voice, and (via Beads) a kind of string section – unfold from a single Mutable Instruments Plaits module and a single pitch sequence. This piece was also an effort to get outside my diatonic comfort zone, and use some “outside” chords, in this case an F#maj13 that disturb the Cm and Gm. (How can a major chord sound so bleak?). The overall mood is dark ambient but with warm tones, hence the title.
Further patch details in the video:
Stygian Colors: a semi-generative piece
Lugia's excellent post - especially his remarks about Eno's approach - inspired me to try to emulate the tape-loop version of generative music on my modular:
