MATRIXSYNTH: 0-coast ambient: rain.paths


Saturday, March 17, 2018

0-coast ambient: rain.paths


Published on Mar 17, 2018 C Nich0lls

"Multitrack ambient recording featuring Makenoise 0-Coast analogue synth. It’s been raining here in LA and I think it’s the absent sound on all of my tracks. I sometimes add washes of noise or tones to the background, so this time decided to add a recording of the rain that I made late one night.

In the rain, find your path.

On this track the synthesis goes a bit more macro from the micro. I built up a patch on the 0-coast that allowed me to have a lot of flexibility to the harmonic content of the output. I think the o-Coast excels at this so I wanted to explore that more specifically. There is quite a bit of modulation going on, but the synth is self-patched.

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Patch/Recording notes

Makenoise 0-Coast

Clock and MIDI B LFO running at slow tempos/rates
Clk out to Contour Gate in
Rnd Gen to Slope Time in
MIDI B LFO to Volt Math in
Volt Math out to Ovrtn and Multiply in
Oscillator Square out to Slope Trig in
Slope out Balance in

The Ovrtn and Multiply pots are adjusted through each recording
Slope Rise and Fall are adjusted through each recording
Balance pot adjusted through recording

Many combinations of harmonics are possible by adjusting the above post.
Note the Slope generator is running at audio rate
It is possible to derive a second pitch from the Slope generator independent of the main oscillator with careful tweaking

Contour is repeating and Dry time is adjusted through each recording.

The track original idea for the track was 6 single-take recordings of the 0-Coast each playing just a single note, with intervals spread over several octaves. The 0-coast was tuned by hand for each pass.

Only the recording of the rain played whilst recording. Therefore each track was recorded without explicit reference to each other, but each one followed the same rules. A single note, whose harmonics and timing pulse followed a trajectory from simple to complex and back. I didn’t listen back to recorded tracks until the last one was complete.

I came up with this approach in college when I was too lazy to stripe 8 track tapes late at night in order to sync them to the Atari ST. Most of the tracks done back then were done by programming harmonically evolving patches on the DX7, which is an amazing synth to do this with.

Once these passes were complete and using the same patch, a short motif was recorded into the Arturia Keystep Pro. This triggered notes via MIDI, but )-Coast remained self patched for triggering the envelopes. A stuttering, glitched version of the motif came out from this and was then buried in the harmonic wash.

All passes recorded through the Strymon BigSky pedal running a custom Cloud patch (to be thematic) :-)

There are a couple of alternate takes on my Soundcloud page. One that just uses the harmonic cloud and a second that reveals the melodic motif more clearly. Best way to enjoy is to open 2 tabs or windows, lower the volume Youtube and play the alternative versions with the video. They work just as well.

Ambient version
https://soundcloud.com/cen-8/rain-pat...

Melodic version
https://soundcloud.com/cen-8/rain-pat..."

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