Gregg recently posted this MP3 on the Analog Heaven mailing list, as an example of the Metalbox 8008, a Roland TR-808 kick drum clone. The MP3 also includes a Blacet and Wiard modular. I asked him if it would be ok to post the sample as I thought it was really good, it's very clean so you can hear each instrument clearly. He gave me the go ahead and a whole lot more. Below are some notes by Gregg and a few more samples and descriptions of each. Very, very cool. Thanks Gregg! "i post a lot of info about my modular to the black dog forum here.
i have a 37 module (and still growing but nearly complete i feel) frac
rack system with a mobius and fat controller sequencer, and a
moogerfooger mf-101 lpf. apparently it's the only frac rack modular in
japan ;)
that dimension c track is two modular voices (one blacet pwm wave into
moog filter, one blacet/wiard miniwave into blacet stonz phaser into
wiard boogie filter, both sequenced by the same cv from the mobius) plus
effects (2 blacet time machines plus a boss dimension c pedal) tweaked
and recorded live in one take and then post processed digitally with a
little reverb, compression, limiting and eq. the weirdest thing is that
if you listen to it for a while, it REALLY sounds like a grand piano!!!
here are some other modular noodlings:
- http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma-ChineseLantern.mp3
an example of putting the feedback signal of a delay through a phaser.
the main patch is the wiard noise ring output quantised by the miniwave
to a pentatonic scale set to "play" the vco's randomly, through the
above mentioned effects. - http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/OneDropDrums&Acid.mp3
slow and dubby acid with the heavily modded tr-606. - http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma-VeryPhat.mp3
an excercise in phatness. - http://techno.dogsquad.co.uk/darkflame/DoubleDelaySweep.mp3
how BIG can those blacet time machines sound? - http://techno.dogsquad.co.uk/darkflame/3SquDroneEndorphin.mp3
a long drone, nice but boring? would make a good "bed" for other stuff. - http://techno.dogsquad.co.uk/darkflame/Babaluma-TheKindThatWinds.mp3
techno track, lots of modular, 606 and 8008. - http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma&Decadnids&Elf-Maggie-YamatoFluteMix.mp3
splitting a stereo mix digitally into m/s components, then processing
the m and s signals through DIFFERENT modular patches, back into the
digital realm where the m and s signals are recombined into stereo...
mmmmm.... - http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma-HymnForJohn.mp3
a complete track featured on the http://www.darkwinter.com/ album "full
cold moon", a tribute to john balance of coil, and featuring tangerine
dream/coil style modular sequencing. - http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma-TsunamiTidalWaves(PowerAmbientRemix).mp3
a full track, and one that i'm very happy with, even though it's old and
was made almost entirely in the digital domain (audiomulch on the pc). i
hope to be able to make stuff like this with just analogue gear in the
future.
anyway, feel free to post any of this stuff on your site. i'm always
looking to collaborate or master other people's stuff when my schedule
allows.
best wishes and thanks for listening and commenting, i really appreciate it!
gregg janman."
Thank you Gregg!
Good Stuff.
ReplyDeleteDark, I like your taste in sonic flavors.. the cleanliness and warmth, breadth of the sounds is great. I love the snip of where you split a stereo track and ran it through different patches and back to stereo,, I could listen to an hour of that straight..
ReplyDeleteyour blacet is bigger than mine, and I dont have two awesome analog sequencers, but I'm catching up!!
~Steve