Modular Jam #1 with Elektron Analog Four - "Cognisent Compound"

Published on Aug 25, 2014 Matt Keenan

"This my first completed piece using the my eurorack rig. I've been noodling around with it since I got the first few modules (check my Vine and Instagram profiles), but here's a full jam.

You can download the track here: https://keenan.bandcamp.com/track/cog...

Equipment used:
- Elektron Analog Four
- Intellijel Metropolis, Atlantis
- Grayscale Synapse
- 4ms Rotating Clock Divider, Shuffling Clock Multiplier (and breakouts)
- Synthrotek Sequence 8, Echo
- Make Noise Maths, Pressure Points, MMG
- Doepfer A-143-4 Quad VCLFO/VCO

- Clock comes from the Analog Four into the Grayscale Synapse, to the 4ms RCD and the SCM. A slow clock goes to the Sequence 8, and a fast one goes to the Metropolis.

- For the bass the pitch is coming from the Sequence 8, goes into the common CV input on the Doepfer Quad. A low pitch square goes into the Maths’ channel 1. A gate comes from the RCD which gets inverted on Maths’ channel 2, then it controls the rise and fall of channel 1, creating an off-beat pulse effect. Output from Maths’ channel 1 goes into the MMG to roll of the top end, then out to mixer.

- On the Sequence 8 I use outputs from individual steps into the reset, to control how long the bass seqence is. If you want a two-step sequence, you patch step 3 into reset.

- The melody line is coming from the Metropolis, into the Atlantis. There’s also a triangle wave coming from the Doepfer Quad into the external input on the Atlantis’ mixer, which follows the bassline (but +1 octave) to add an extra voice. There’s a little bit of vibrato on the VCO coming from the internal modulator. And some modulation on the Atlantis’ filter from the other Doepfer Quad channels. A slow triangle LFO is put into the CV input of another LFO, to modulate the LFO rate. This then goes through a Maths channel to attenuate, then into the Atlantis’ VCF modulator. Final output from the Atlantis goes into a Maths channel to bring the volume down, then into the Synthrotek Echo. The Echo’s rate is being controlled by the Pressure Points, where I select one of four previously set rates. Output of echo goes into mixer."