Blue Eyes and a Bob

YouTube Uploaded by davidryle on Oct 17, 2011

"A first rough draft of an idea using a newly bought Moon Modular 563 Trigger Sequencer and the 554 Octal Divider. I used the 553 Midi to Clock module to handle reset/start/stop functions on the 563 and 554. The main clock timing was from Cubase with midi.

The entire piece was a live take with the modular except for the melodic line which was a midi track from a session the night before. It was a megatron patch from MTron played by Cubase midi at the time of the live recording.

The 554 was sending shift gates to the Q960, Q119 and STG sequencers as well as the 563 and some switches for selecting double beats for the bassline. Row switching of the sequencers was handled by a Random Gates (Yusynth) module and various switches. Two suboscillators (CGS01) were used for bass crunch and portions of the percussion sounds.

The bass line voice was fun. It was 2 Q106's with a triangle wave to an Ian Fritz 5 Pulser as well as various waveforms routed through an Oakley SVF. The SVF was frequency swept by an LFO and it's LP output was sent through a CGS01 along with a sine from another Q106 to pick up a few sub-octaves with the Ring Modulation feature and summed with the notch output from the SVF before blended with the 5 Pulser signal. Lots of slowly changing timbres."