#41

!Ay¡ I forgot to add an S&H to my patch, but for other VCV users there is also the free Audible(Mutable) Instruments utilities(Kinks).

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#42

For people having trouble building the Rack:

JuntoBox.zip (14.6 KB)

“JuntoBox.nksr” is just a Rack including only the proposed Blocks. “JuntoBoxChirp” was an in-progress draft, and “JuntoBox Birdsong” is my submission for the Junto. We’re having a beautiful day, so I sat on my patio and patched that together. I’m not submitting a Soundcloud link, as I’d rather people open it up and treat it like an interactive composition. Give it about 10 seconds to start generating when you open it up, as the LFO needs to finish a cycle to start the modulation process.

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#43

This is really nice. Are you willing to share a bit more on your process… how it came together - where you decided to expand on the prompt… etc.?

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#44

Excellent range of sound! Lovely!

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#45

I think subconsciously you were heading from blocks to bollocks :wink:

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#46

First time using VCV Rack. (Sorry, I didn’t really understand the prompt, but I made something from VCV >> Ableton.)

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#47

Cool - Like a really strange operating table. Nicely tense!

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#48

Thank you, Robin! (and for exposing me to Reaktor)

I really enjoy scannerdot, btw - Great writing.

Think I first saw it referenced in a list of various The Fall appreciations. I liked your selected favorite Mark E Smith lyric. Anecdotally, my favorite stanza of his from the 80s:

And sometimes they say ‘Hey Mark you’re spoiling all the paintwork’
And sometimes they say ‘Your thumbprints are on the paintwork’

:sunglasses::partying_face:

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#49

Thanks for the challenge this week. Excerpts here from a long exploration in the shared system instrument, recorded to Logic, wherein I sliced, and added reverb and compression

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#50

:wave: this is my first post here on Lines, and my first Junto project.

This was a nice concrete prompt. Restricting myself to a piece of software I’d never used before was really productive. I used several different patches, but I think they all shared a couple things in common: using the VCA in a feedback loop with the SVF to get it to self-oscillate, and using a fast LFO to trigger 4mods in “?!” mode, with one sequencer channel gating the EG and others providing kinda-sorta weighted random voltages. All that amounts to a whole lot of semi-random modulation.

‘fiberglass’ is primarily a bunch of tracks of hard-panned VCO + SVF tuned close together with subtle modulation everywhere. I tried initially to tune them to specific harmonics / just intervals from 164 Hz (chosen arbitrarily), based on the frequencies shown in the UI, but thanks to the modulation I was applying and the fairly coarse control (can’t move a virtual knob less than one pixel, apparently) I definitely didn’t achieve anything I’d call accuracy.

‘catbird’ comes from a recording of the first patch I made, before it even occurred to me that these patches could be saved, so I don’t remember exactly what all was going on, but the main “oscillator” is the SVF + VCA, with resonance/gain right on the edge of self-oscillation, and the resonance is being modulated by both the VCO and the LFO.

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#51

apparently Reaktor lends itself well to birdsong! The fixed set of notes from the sequencer are really effectively bird-like – on my accidental birdsong patch I’m pretty sure the pitches were just random. This is way more melodic.

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#52

Thanks EPTC :slight_smile:
Glad you’ve been enjoying the challenge and thanks for your kind words about my work. I try to share not only things relating to my own work, but thoughts on creativity and most recently the sound of silence.

It was an honour to take part in The Fall show too!

Have a great weekend.

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#53

Yep, you’re damn right. It’s pure Freud. :wink:
Reaktor Bollocks, that’s where I was.
Bolcks is now number 7 in the list of my own 50 better typos.

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#54

No guilt, besides it seems I’m the only one having concerns and “limitations” with Reaktor, because I use Kontakt a lot and last time I used Native Access 50% of my libraries went in demo mode and it was a big mess. So I had to find an “illegal” way to add libraries to my “legal” copy of Kontakt w/o Access.
And that prevents me to use/update any other NI product. Bad for me.

I’m completely uninformed about the modular proceedings (vs playing notes on a synth as I do) and would love to get into it (using another software? or borrowing an Eurorack for a week lol) but this time around I just couldn’t get it and it is a missed opportunity, ended up using Blocks Wired as a normal synth/arpeggiator mostly.
But yours was a great idea, and talked to me immediately “go modular, just for one day”, I’ll do that eventually, but not with Reaktor it seems.

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#55

I made 3 patches for this project. This deflated a bit from the road, LFO OSC so much modulation filter are present, random. I have not used sequencer.

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#56

All source sound in this small (and experimental) piece is from “leftover” eurorack modules - conforming to the few kinds, that this week challenge allows.

The sequence/sound has then been imported into Ableton and MANGLED like crazy - and a few drums then added…

Picture of the patch below:

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#57

Maybe for another thread, but I’d love to see this list!

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#58

I have to admit I 'cheated" a little–I did this using ChucK instead of the shared software because I’m running low on disk space and I wanted to see if I could reproduce the spirit of the exercise in ChucK. Anyway, I coded up a sound chain of sine oscillator => filter => envelope and then two LFOs to control filter cutoff and pitch. I launch various instances of the code where I turn the gain up on each gradually and fiddle with different parameters. Here’s the video:

audio: https://soundcloud.com/north_woods/disquiet0381

last not least, the source code: https://github.com/charliekramer/ChucK/blob/master/disquiet0381.ck

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#59

That is really great. I have a question: I hear a little little click when you are changing things in the Virtual Machine window. Is that an option to turn on/off?

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hey thanks! I don’t think so–ChucK sometimes makes those clicking sounds when there are abrupt changes in volume. That said I’m not sure I’m using the software as intended! :slight_smile:

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