The picture tells the whole story!

But be prepared for something

EXTRAORDINARY

at the end of next week!

Cheers and Peace!

Rolf

In this series of posts and articles I´m exclusively using rather basic modules to fulfil certain tasks, and I always try to leave the patches as less complex as possible.

Today´s tasks is: creating a simple macro controller

(this is really a simple one, but some of you might not have thought of it nevertheless)

Sometimes you don´t have enough hands to dial all knobs in your patch that you would need to in a live situation (or when recording in the studio without having automation on).

It is said, that modular synth enthusiasts suffer from a lack of humour and take their activities (too) deadly serious.

I don´t know whether that´s true or not.

So let me think back and find out if this is true for me.

Alright then.

In the late 60s it was definitely not true, nor was it until the late 70s.

In this series of posts and articles I´m exclusively using rather basic modules to fulfil certain tasks, and I always try to leave the patches as less complex as possible.

Today´s tasks is:

Make a random mono pitch progression polyphonic using only a single pitch CV source.

The block diagram shows the principle.

Red arrows are pitch CV,

yellow arrows are triggers and gates,

orange arrows are envelope modulated audio volumes,

blue arrows are pure audio.

All texts are written, all examples are produced, all patches and presets are made, all sound files are recorded and all graphics are finished – the book is nearly prepared for getting published.

What´s left to do is optimising the layout and preparing some material for the book marketing (I make my living from writing books and doing sound designing etc. anyway, right?)

… and 2 more large chapters are finished. 

The projects which I´m describing in part II of the book are getting larger and larger, and I´m introducing some patching techniques, which I haven´t seen anywhere else so far.

Will my trilogy of e-books about making generative music with modular synths cross the 1,000 pages border?

I´m curious myself.

Enjoy your day!

Alright: the book has grown to 324 pages. 3 large projects are finished in part II by now, and I´m writing chapter 10 at the moment.

There are 157 video clips integrated in the e-book so far, there are 200 patches (presets) and 233 pictures/graphics.

The whole part 1 is finished! 6 chapters and about 200 pages.

And what´s more, the first chapter of part II – the first large project – is finished as well, and I´m well into chapter 2 (the second large project of generative music).