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Re: Lost Terrain - Serge Modular Explorations

2009-03-23 by Carbon111

don hassler wrote:
> They are all really nice, but I like Artic the most!
> You'll sell a handful of Creature/Gators I bet.
> Thanks for sharing!
> Don

Thanks Don!

I hope you mean *STS* will sell a load of Creature/Gators! :D
...well they should! ^_^

Check out the FLAC version or, better yet, burn the FLAC versions to a
CD and you'll see how nice these *really* are! ;)

Artic-11/25 was the real presentation piece in this album as it's the
most complex structurally. As an exercise, I decided to use only the
Serge "Creature" and "Gator" M-odules. Going into it I thought it was
going to be very minimal with such a constrained palette but I was able
to get a much wider selection of timbres and rhythmic motifs than I
could have ever hoped.

The combination of the pulse divider and Boolean function blocks on the
Gator allowed for lots of rhythmic variety even though derived from a
simple pulse train - and having odd divisions as well as even ones
allowed for some unexpected poly rhythms.

The Creature was the workhorse for sound generation in this pairing and
I got many of the "bed" sounds, including the initial, and repeated,
"rumbling drone with sonar ping" motif from this simple patch:

http://www.carbon111.com/serge/creature_patch1.jpg

That was just a jumping-off point though - I added a lot of modulation
from the Gator to that initial config to get those delicious timbres.

The VCFQ is a fantastic sound source as well as being a workhorse
multimode filter. The Trig input on that function block is a godsend for
percussion of all types.

In Artic-11/25 there are maybe six passes of Creature/Gator laid down.

Best Regards, James
--
http://www.carbon111.com

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