Fairly Danceable for Modular - modular synth improv

Unedited modular synth improv overlaid with various loops after the fact. I jammed to a static loop. The stereo synth track is dry as a bone, no EQ, no compression, no nothin'. The computer supplies 4 trigger streams, via Volta/ MOTU 24io interface and I'm switching between those with a DIY switcher (upper rt) to change the both sequencer time division and the Modcan digital delay time division.
Left is mostly Synthesizers.com sate variable filter and right is mostly Suit and Tie Guy's Post-Lawsuit (Arp) filter.
Th actual pitches of the sequence (top 2 rows of the Modcan seq) are never changed.

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• Modcan
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• Volta

[blwvideo]

Revisiting this guy a year and a half later, this really is just a fantastic track.

[doctorvague]

@blwvideo Thanks Brian!!

[doctorvague]

I really like your videos first off. The VCDO is a 'pry it out of my cold dead fingers' module for me. The perfect foil with warm analog oscillators.Check out my tracks on virb - better audio, and VCDO all over the place. Especially the track called Perspicacity. Thanks for your fine music!

[Yuwipiman]

What are you using to get those groovy syncopated drum sounds? Is that the 730 with modules? Or a drum machine.

Sunsinger

[doctorvague]

That's Stylus RMX running in DP. Some of the loops are standard 'real' drum loops and some are chopped up modular previously recorded modular jam bits that I (rather time consumingly) chop into slices in Recycle so they can be sped up and slowed down in real time. Since the loops are layered afterward, I freely move the 'one' around and such.

thanks for asking!

[doctorvague]

also: about syncopation - I freely layer beats against each other where they're 'not supposed to go', like starting a loop on beat 3 and a half and another on beat 2 if that's what works feels good against the improv. And that changes as it goes along -the perceived 'one' at any given moment.

[qishmish]

Very cool videos, really impressive and good for ears =)

[RoboticusMusic]

@doctorvague abletons slice to MIDI. I just saved you a sickening amount of time.

[uppuz]

i love these sounds... so much. great performance doc

[Treseler7790]

I wish I had the money to afford this. You know how many hours I would spend on this thing?

[saltykraut]

glad I stumbled upon your work, very relaxing

[shaft9000]

deliciously groovin'!!! I dig the mix & clock dividing, too :o)

[keesvangelis]

this verry good it swings

[AbioticSneaker]

What do you do for a living and CAN I INTERN? 20 m fair mannered with an undying love for modular systems XD