"A cult-favorite patch from the original Maths manual, the "Bouncing Ball" has been a source of inspiration and exploration for years!
This video— hosted by Pete from the Make Noise Instagram channel— takes a look at the history of the Bouncing Ball patch through interviews with Tony Rolando and walkthroughs of its various incarnations.
Timestamps for the video's sections are below— enjoy!
0:00 Introduction to the Bouncing Ball patch
0:56 Interview with Tony Rolando about his inspirations for the initial Maths patch ideas
2:01 A walkthrough of the original (2009) Bouncing Ball patch
8:08 Interview with Tony Rolando about his inspirations for the Bouncing Ball patch
10:56 A walkthrough of the updated (2013) Bouncing Ball patch
13:33 Suggestions for ways to expand the 2013 Bouncing Ball patch
15:11 A walkthrough of the Bouncing Ball patch on an 0-Coast
18:12 Interview with Tony Rolando about recent musical examples featuring a Bouncing Ball effect
19:02 Interview with Tony Rolando about the legacy of the Bouncing Ball patch
23:02 Conclusions"
"Pitch quantizers take incoming CVs and adhere them to a scale. In this video, we'll use voltage and LFOs on the Intellijel Tetrapad into Quartermain on After Later Audio Ornament and Crime, triggered by the Tubbutec 6equencer, into the 4ms Spherical Wavetable Navigator to make generative melodies. Intellijel Rainmaker brings the wetness."
"The 1980's was a prolific period for music. This collection of recreations explores a few of my favourite jams from a decade that was dominated by synthesizers and drum machines.
Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
Talk Talk - It's My Life
Midnight Star - Midas Touch
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
Madonna - Holliday
Hall & Oats - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Queen - I Want To Break Free
Rockwell - Sombody's Watching Me
DTrain - You're The One For Me
"The Erica Synths DB-01 sends and receives CV and includes a handy attenuator, so a little experimentation with CV can really extend the sound design possibilities. Here both DB-01s and a pod of Euro clocks and modulators (two Erica Synths Drum Modulators) are synced together. One DB-01 is the master feeding pitch CV into a mult and then into the second DB-01. Both units are getting filter CV inputs from the Drum Modulators. The main machine is sometimes going through a Microtubes B3K for extra overdrive goodness, and the second DB-01 get washy with an Earthquaker Devices Afterneath V3 - which also accepts CV. Hopefully this little demo gives you some ideas. A little CV goes a long way.
"This morning my daughter pleaded with me to work from home. It was really cute, and sad. I told her that even if I stayed home, I wouldn't really get to play with her. She insisted, 'You can work. I won't bother you.' I still left for work. I need the exercise (I bike to and from work and just won't do cardio if I don't have a reason to do it).
I got home, ate dinner (but was on my phone), gave her a bath (and was somewhat on my phone), then we watched TV together... I missed it. I missed the day with her, even when I was with her. All she wanted to do was to be with me. I was 'there' but not really.
All I can do is try again, to do better.
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Gear used:
Korg Polysix (sent through Strymon Volante)
Roland SH-101
All tracks sent through Eventide Blackhole VST"
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If this could bring you back | Rhodes Piano and Prophet 10 | Tribute to my father
video upload by MIDERA
"Eleven years today, July 22nd, 2010 - that sounds like a long time. It feels like no time, once you've gotten there. It's been 11 years since I watched the last breath leave my father. The sense of sadness, but relief - his pain was over.
I still have dreams about him - he always has stubble on his face (which he never had prior to cancer, he always kept his face clean) and I'm always shocked that he survived. "But... how did you survive??" Although normally I don't even ask him that anymore. I think I'm just happy to see him again, and my brain knows not to tempt it by asking those questions.
One time, after I'd gotten into a car accident and he was yelling at me over the phone, I found the words that dug into him and hurt him. I said to him, "You were never there for me." Apparently that ripped right into him and - I always regretted saying that. It reminds me of the lyrics from a Pearl Jam song, 'Some words when spoken, can't be taken back.'
I wrote him a letter, a few weeks before he died, apologizing for having said that back in 2003... He read it, I think, or I hope. My mom recently gave me the letter I wrote to him. Three pages of how proud I was of him, how I'd always regretted saying that to him, how I hoped he'd still be with us for a long time... After that - I don't think I actually saw him conscious, he was basically in a coma the next weekend and never woke up, except for some strange bouts of strength and alertness (although I wasn't there for that).
I ended my letter to him, saying that I'd love to read anything he'd write back to me. But there was nothing there. I never heard back."
