200e

http://divisionbyzero.com/birthday.m4a

recorded for a 60th birthday present. not in quad so hopefully this  
sounds closer to what i'm actually hearing than the last sample i  
posted.

technical notes:

since "happy birthday" has more notes than the 250e i sequenced the  
first 12 on channel 1 and the second 12 on channel 2. i then used a  
256e channel to pan between the two voltages initially. then i used  
another 256e channel to pan between my initial panning and a quantized  
random voltage output from the 266e set to 2 states (ie, random gate).  
this was triggered every 6 notes so the pieces of the melody are for  
the most part sequential. i also sent another random gate into the  
stage address pulse input to get a skip here and there. the sounds are  
all 259e and 261e (both "dry" and run through a 291e which is fm/am/bm  
by all sorts of stuff). i put the resulting wav file through a  
dimension d to soften it up a bit and added a small bit of reverb.

i'll take a picture of this patch; it's messy but cool looking.

thanks,

-jon


"There are no differences but differences of degree between different  
degrees
of difference and no difference."
- James, William. "Subjective Effects of Nitrous Oxide." Mind. 1882;  
Vol 7.