(= part 16 of all articles about sonic grains).

Some Notes about Composing with Grains

Techniques and cross-compositional resources:

There are different ways to come to grips with the immense amount of grains and their individual parameters, but most of them have one strategy in common: the use of tendency masks.

For reasons of practicability (when producing music) it is better to use a DAW environment sometimes (and sometimes it is not, of course). And the VCV Rack version, which works inside of a DAW is not a free one – you have to pay for it. And even if the price is definitely appropriate – it is still a price, still money. There will be some of you, who cannot afford these about 200.- Dollars (September 2022). CARDINAL is free – no money needed. So, how to work with CARDINAL? What are the differences to VCV Rack? When should we use CARDINAL, and when VCV Rack?

Things unseen and unheard before.

https://youtu.be/8YFS7akROXI

Don´t watch if you are rather stupid. Don´t watch if you are faint hearted. Don´t watch if you are an impatient kind of person.

A mysterious book! One book more! An unplanned project!

Are you brave enough to watch this:

00:00 Intro And Last Warning

00:07 Absolutely Nothing New

00:43 Terrible News

01:00 The Riddle – Solve It Or Die

03:45 Impatience – A Nearly Ambient Musical Slide Show

Some Notes about Composing with Grains

(= part 15 of all articles about sonic grains)

Structures, levels, time scales:

For my followers on Youtube: here is the promised finished patch:

To watch the 60 second video, just click ---> HERE

Enjoy your day!

Rolf

Some Notes about Composing with Grains

(= part 14 of all articles about sonic grains)

(contains embedded video – excerpt from my e-book about sonic grains: https://www.dev.rofilm-media.net/node/332). And if you want to support my work, please make use of the “PayPal” button at this website – thank you!)

For all my followers on YouTube: here is the patch graphic I promised there:

To watch this 60 second video about making this patch just click ---> HERE

Enjoy your day!

Rolf

A compact chart showing the relation between the MIDI note number, the pitch of a note, its frequency and the absolute Voltage to generate this note in Eurorack (and other synths) may come in handy from time to time. 

Well, here it is ready for downloading:

CHART

The Modules of the ARP 2500 – Part 13

Today´s original ARP 2500 patch is a rather simple one. But it´s interesting because of its legions of oscillators, one of which operates as an LFO. I´m very curious how this mass of VCOs will reproduce the original ARP sound in Voltage Modular. Let´s get going!

There are 10 VCO modules 1004-T working as sound generators. All of them are tuned to the same pitch, and all of them use only the saw wave, but 4 of the VCOs are switched to inverted saw waves.

(most creative and most in-depth way to learn modular, to dive into VCV Rack 2 and to understand generative music)