#29

hey! a long time lurker here, finally decided to participate!

here it is:

the process looked something like this —

the dice and the accompanying decisions:
10

i set up three voices on my modular:
1 (constant tone) — (modulated) E352 -> 3 Sisters -> Dervish (reverb)
2 (“note 1”) — (really modulated) Furthrrr Generator -> Springray spring reverb -> modulated pan
3 (“note 2”) — self-oscillating Folktek Conduit delay -> Verbos Bark filter
all (slow) modulations coming from Vermona Fourmulator, Maths, New Pam’s and Just Friends

note change around 3:00 comes from pressure points into both Furthrrr v/oct inputs, slew limited by Maths and Function.

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then i set up stopwatch in my iphone and recorded everything live into the Tascam 464 4-track cassette portastudio, overdriving it a good bit, at the same time recording with Ableton in case the wretched cassette thingy goes haywire (it didn’t).

then i found some balance between 2 recorded stereo pairs on the Tascam and dumped the mix into ableton, adding a layer of Strymon Big Sky hall reverb with Tascam’s FX sends.

then i eq’d the reverb a little, added fade in, master limiter and exported. fade out is too abrupt but i did it live so no way to adjust.

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#30

Welcome! Great end to the year.

#31

thanks! i hope to become a regular!

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#32

Excellent. If you ever have thoughts about a project, let me know.

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#33

Great, will do of course!

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#34


This was a cool challenge. Great work from everyone.

Rolled:
3 - 2
5 - 3
2 - 3

Oscillators:

  • Plaits: main drone
  • Piston Honda: 2 notes used throughout

Filters:

  • Ripples: main drone
  • Three Sisters: 2 piston honda voices in, All out

Effects:

  • Erbeverb
  • Tape delay pedal

CV:

  • Maths
  • Marbles
  • Cold Mac
  • Quad VCA
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#35

Hello, this is my first Junto project.

I rolled:
3 + 2 (2 min - tone + voice2)
2 + 3 (1 min - voice 3 enters)
1 + 5 (1 min - voice 2 disappears)
plus 1 min - voice 3 disappears and then, the end.

Tone + voice 3 on eurorack and voice 2 on serge modular.

Tone : Sawtooth wave through 4ms sprectal multiband resonator (different random control voltages on each bands + randomly voltage controlled enveloppe on resonance) and then through Make Noise erbe-verb.

Voice 2 : Sawtooth wave through resonant eq and then through variable Q low pass filter (randomly voltage controled enveloppe on resonance + audio modulation on resonance).

Voice 3 : Low pass gate (Make Noise Optomix) randomly triggered through 4ms dual looping delay. (I realized a bit too late that I didn’t completely follow the rules because the pitch of the vco going through the LPG is voltage controlled).

Everything was played live.

Enjoy, merry christmass and happy new year to you all.

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#36

This challenge was the sort of thing that I would naturally try and use eurorack for - but I’ve gone home for the holiday, with no musical equipment bar a laptop.

Doing drones ‘in the box’ is strange - because you can easily make very long pieces of music without listening to them. I used a sample I recorded a while ago, and a woodwind sample pack to try and build up my drone. The initial result was uninspiring - and very static, so I added a plethora of max4live lfos and envelope followers and randomly assigned them to lots of parameters. I also recorded the sounds out of the window with my laptops microphone and laid them over the top.

I’m quite please with how it came out

1 minutes, 4 voices
3 minutes, 2 voices
2 minutes, 4 voices.

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#37

Disquiet0364

5-6 4-6 4-3

Rolled the dice online at: http://roll-dice-online.com/

5-6, 4-6, 4-3 came up

Used a Tampura drone in C minor that I downloaded from Sounds.com

Used Analog Lab 3 for the other drone notes

Used a Matrix 12 V instrument in Analog Lab 3

Base note was the Tampura

Bracket one was 2 notes with the Matrix 12, C and G

Bracket 2 was 2 notes with the Matrix 12, C and G

Bracket 3 was 2 different notes with the Matrix 12, F and C

All done in Reaper

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#38

1-6 1-5 1-2

I’ve been playing acoustic guitar a bunch which doesn’t sustain enough to drone for minutes, so I recorded a bunch of takes on banjo, nylon and steel string guitars playing only the note G but in different octaves and rhythmic patterns for the main drone. Then I did the same thing but just the note D, then B and finally E.

The dice gave me an arrangement to start with all the tones and slowly remove them each minute.

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#39

The playlist is now rolling, so to speak:

Thanks, again, @Toaster for having proposed this project.

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#40

Welcome, @manu-b. Thanks for joining in.

#41

I had so much fun with this yesterday so, before breaking down the patch/system, I thought I’d go for broke and do the full, 61 minutes.

The setup and dice throws are the same as the short version. I scaled up the time dice to work as a corresponding proportion of the available time. I extended the fades in and out to make better use of the time.

I also changed the control system for the second 4 voice section to use a joystick + JAG as a vector mixer which was really fun to perform on.

Everything, even the fades in and out, was recorded live and posted completely unedited. (I had to downsample the master file to get a file size that Bandcamp would accept but I’m not counting that as an edit).

So, if long form drone is your thing, get some here…

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#42

the title is from an uncharacteristically poetic wikipedia article (about rainbows i think)

got a dice in a cracker when i went for an anniversary/xmas dinner with my partner the other night. i rolled 4 5 / 6 4 / 6 6

i misremembered the instructions a bit… and did 4 minute / 6 minute / 6 minute drones, repeated to 61 minutes. one drone was cello thru protoplasm, second was phonec, third was synthmaster+podfarm. all of them had lots of ambient reverb. some slight automated changes. but i kept it really repetitive.

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#43

Hi folks.
A “newtimer” (on site) here and this is my first junto attempt, so please, be kind with rookie. :blush:
My dices rolled 3-4, 1-4, 2-3. I did 2+1+1 min +some extra seconds on start and on finish.
I did not use a synth. All sounds are derived from wind at the begining of the project. I did use timestreching on wind and than fed it to ring modulator. copy of only timestreched wind was fed to a set of plugins-eq, comp, distortion, reverb and bit of chorus. On fx bus, I used cool plugin - regresiff and than fed it to IKEA plate reverb IR, made by LeoMakes (his YT ch).
I recorded the project on casette and than back into pc. I’ve joined the two together.
I’ve left hum and noise on purpose.

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#44

As always, if 24 hours pass and your track isn’t added to the SoundCloud playlist, let me know.

#45

Taking a page out of Demetrius Tabu’s book, here is a non-submission.

I took three of the pieces I liked from this disquiet and combined them.

Dimitrius Tabu the Third’s

Detritus-tabu3 – Drones-cancelled-my-flight-disquiet0364

cigazze sketches’

Cigazze-sketches – 422223-disquiet0364

umcorps’

Umcorps – 6-36-41-6-disquiet0364

I made some minor changes by warping them until they had then same length and then mixing them, there is some small amount of delay used at the end. Dimitrius Tabu’s piece was the most overpowering, so I used it a bit like punctuation.

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#46

https://soundcloud.com/ohm-research/drone-disquiet0364

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#47

A 2-minute + 1-minute + 1-minute drone, with a single note on a cello + Shepard tones* forming the base (and the “2”); the first 1 (3) is base + Saturn (sounds from NASA’s Cassini), and the final 1 (3) is base - Saturn + helicopter.

*Shepard-Risset Glissando, which I learned from a video explainer on sound design in Christpher Nolan films :wink:

My idea of a perfect drone is something infinitely dense and textured, still from a distance, always moving close-up, like snow on a CRT; made up of many different parts, yet never really parseable. This isn’t that, it’s too various; things are just distinguishable in the snow…

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#48

Yum!

That is so good.

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