Do we need a new approach to music?
This is the place where I summarize the discussion, which is spread across all of my social media channels. Let me – already now – say “thank you” to all, who have contributed and are still contributing. And here are all of the postings, opinions and thoughts so far:
Rolf´s Question:
Do we need a completely new kind of music?
“Do we need a new and completely different way of understanding music, of looking at music, of listening to music and to making/producing music again?”
In the World of Grains - Part 12
(= 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.
CARDINAL – Is it really like VCV Rack as a free VST? Part 1
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?
There Are Still Things The World Has Never Seen
Things unseen and unheard before.
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
In the World of Grains - Part 11
Some Notes about Composing with Grains
(= part 15 of all articles about sonic grains)
Structures, levels, time scales:
VCV Rack ultra-quickies #2
For my followers on Youtube: here is the promised finished patch:
To watch the 60 second video, just click ---> HERE
Enjoy your day!
Rolf
In the World of Grains – Part 10
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!)
VCV Rack ultra-quickies #1
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
Pitch, CV, MIDI Note and Frequency
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:
The Modules of the ARP 2500 – Part 13
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.