Track nine is a requiem, grieving for loss but opening doors into the next dimension, not yet lived but right now.
Featuring the Casiotone MT-100 pictured here! Plus the regular assortment of voice and articulators of funk.
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Newly rearranged modules for a sequencer + synth voice thing. Nothing new here, just cleared out space in this rack case for another row and built it with modules I own.
And in case you're wondering, yes I did this for the track I'm working on. :)
This is why I love modular fundamentals and synthdiy - need an instrument? Build one! You cannot do that with a lot of the boutique stuff these days... your "sound" is someone else's.
Picked up the Maneco Labs Minilooper used, this is a reproduction of the ElectroHarmonix 16s delay from the 80's!
It behaves like a pedal with bypass and continuous recording, had a lot of fun playing with drones last night.
Love it when I find weird shit for sale. The panel design is definitely weird - which I love. And it behaves just like I like.
Hey @jepyang I got that Mac Salad right next to Maths! Appropriate, yes?
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@norootcause This may seem niche, but The Modular Synthesizer.
Invented in the 1950s and then ushered into reality by Moog and Buchla in the '60s, then soon by Roland. Used by all your favorite jam bands of the '70s, but very expensive and not reaching nearly the popularity of its contemporary blossoming technology, The Electric Guitar.
All sorts of brands came out with modulars, but it wasn't until the '90s that Dieter Doepfer's "Eurorack" - a "miniature" format for modular - began to infiltrate the scene.
Fast forward to 2025, and Eurorack has become the most popular format, it dominates electronic music with all the brands and DIY being done. There is no serious electronic musician without a modular, and it is probably one of many.
Do you techno?
Do you move?
Move to techno.
Five tracks down... what will be next?
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Took some juggling but I got them going together. Success! The G&T gate-to-trigger is sandwiched between the Doepfer A160-2 Clock Div II and the Nonlinear Circuits Poultry in Motion PT2933 delay with integrated divider that can be synched to the delay steps.
Picked up two used clock dividers at Perfect Circuit so I'll be tetrising a spot for them today.
I really want the large delay / divider in the big rack but the space I have is 8hp, not 10.
My Rotating Clock Divider died and I will try to fix it, but I have momentum on other makes that I need to finish first!
I thought after completing three songs and getting deeper into a fourth that I should share some of the sonic artifacts I've recorded along the way.
Ambient, dark electro, experimental minimalism, improvised corners of where I'm sourcing my sound library for constructing studio tracks.
#craque #ambient #idm #electronica #ExtendedGuitar #ExperimentalMusic #ModularSynth #EurorackModular #SynthDIY
A quick minute from my grimy filtered imprecise Shepard Tone patch.
Wiard Anti-Oscillator
2x Intellijel Dixie
Bubblesound VCOb
Intellijel Quad VCA
Doepfer A-143-1 Complex EG/LFO
DinSync Sara VCF
Richter Wogglebug (Make Noise)
Pico DSP
Tuning up the Shepard Tone into a color cone...
Drones and strung tones.
Today I am patching a combo I finally can achieve: a Shepard Tone, the sonic equivalent of a barbershop pole. 
To do it entirely on an analog modular synth, I have the mighty Doepfer A-143-1 quad EG/LFO, with each chained to the next, and separately patched to the CV inputs on an Intellijel Quad VCA. Four individual triangle VCOs are sent to the VCA inputs, so they fade in and out with the cycle of the quadrature LFO. The same signal coming from the Doepfer channels is fed simultaneously to the 1v/8va input of each VCO
matching that channel on the VCA.
The effect happens as each VCO is changed in pitch according to the LFO at the same time it is being faded in with the VCA by the same LFO shape. As the next LFO fires it fades the next VCO the same way, one after the other like an ouroboros.
With each quadrant of the LFO represented (+/- sign/cosign), the continuous sound you hear is a constant rising tone. Put through a bandpass filter to fine-tune the audible range, the result is an audio illusion: the pitch of the sound seems to always be going forever upward.
I promised some Ferrous sounds! I hope it works.
This is part of a patch I'm working for the third track. Layers of some looped figures with a deep synth ground drone holding up yawning higher pitched guitar tones coming from the Ferrous and through some delay.
Today's office. Patches reset!
Another sneak peek at album progress. This makes two so far! Going for six maybe?
I hear myself pulling roots up and rearranging them among the flowers of things I've learned over the past 30 years of creating songs.
I'm finding myself. Learning new things about my musical brain that I might have left behind. It feels strangely more professional, and everything is recorded from my studio of instruments.
Really like the direction I feel things taking me as I remove masks.
I can take the time to listen for myself.
My office this weekend.
had to try out some video with the audio interface I hoped would work for quick shots on the new phone, and it does!
squished into this psychedelic glitchtro funk while testing the recording chain into Live12 (it works great).
#craque #GlitchtroFunk #ModularSynth #EurorackModular #idm #ExperimentalMusic @synths