#101

very very beautiful playing here!! all the reverb makes it feel really distant and otherworldly, love it!

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#102

Just Elements being fed lots of trigs and cv from Marbles and with the outs patched back to the external ins. The space should be up for it to start feeding back which it is here. When being fed a trigger it will interrupt the feedback, as heard in the begginning. About halfway through you will hear me remove the triggers and Marbles will just continue to modulate the feedback going on in Elements and finally at the end I remove all the CV. I was surprised at how great this could sound for percussion and hope to incorporate it into some kind of a proper track in the near future.

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#103

This one may be too long but I like it anyway.

The sound here is a Lifeforms Primary Oscillator with the sine sent through a D0 and back into its own linear FM input. The wavefolder output is heard, filtered by a slew for a somewhat grimy lowpass sound. The result is very vocal and string-like much of the time. The pitch of the LPO is fed by some slow, random, quantized CV and the time and amplitude of the D0 signal are being slowly modulated to further change the pitch and timbre, creating a lot of drifting, uneasy tones. I layered two different recordings of the same patch together here.

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#104


This one didn’t end up sounding all that interesting but I found the process pretty interesting to work with.

The way it works is that I’m using the quantizer outputs on SMR to sequence my oscillator, but they’re also going into two CV delays of Stages (all three are different outputs from SMR) and those delayed signals are then mixed, one positive and one negative, back into the CV offset on SMR. I also put an attenuated version of that mix into Filter 8 which I used to modulate both the wavefolder and the quantization speed.

The end result is kind of noodly. I enjoy listening to it but I admit I wouldn’t be able to tell it apart from someone randomly mashing keys. I’m still curious to explore similar patches, especially with some more control over time to make it groove better.

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#105

This has been harder than I expected, but I think I’ve finally made something that could expand to a complete track. Here are some sound from SMR to magneto, then back into SMR. This is a reels worth that is off to Morphagene:

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#106

really like the chordal changes at the end of this!

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#107


For this one I wrote a short text and read it out in monotone (around A). I then split up the text into 8 fragments where each fragment goes into a different infinite delay line at a different speed, creating stochastic and unpredictable overlaps. All of the delay lines are then autotuned by a looping chord progression, meaning each chord is filled out but most of the time unevenly.

I think I read it out clearly but here is the text, each line break representing a segment:

perpetuate repetition
the cycle
inevitably erodes
all meaning
forming
new meaning
from its patchwork
of noise

I’m pretty happy with the result, although I do think it could benefit from some other element like more delays of the same segments being faded in over time to create more density.

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#108

Thanks for the prompt.

Hadn’t tried using feedback before and was pleased with the result, which I’ve uploaded for the compilation.

Cheers!

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#109

I’ve been enjoying following along this thread, and finally made the time to record something today.

I wanted to attempt a closed stereo feedback loop with norns and my modular. I spent a lot of the time trying to get the gain staging right to avoid nasty digital distortion, which made me realize this type of thing is generally easier to do in the analog domain. I would love it if norns had a soft-clipping limiter of some sort, but don’t have the knowledge to implement it myself.

I ended up with a couple sections that I liked, did some minimal editing to crossfade between them, added some light compression and eq, and layered a little synth drone underneath in the second half just to fill out the spectrum a bit more.

Patch is… norns (timeparty) -> korgasmatron -> clouds -> mimeophon -> norns

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#110

That’s my track completed and uploaded. Thanks for your efforts @jlmitch5 and @jrdnrndl - looking forward to hearing and seeing the final thing.

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#111

(https://soundcloud.com/squim/squim-release-the-reins)

All made by sequencing the feedback of the internal routing of the Elektron Monomachine using a soundcraft mixer. Making it more or less a no-input groovebox.

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#112

Looks like we’ve got 6 tracks in the drive! This will be wrapping up towards the end of the week, so get your track in by then if you’re interested in being part of the compilation.

EDIT: Someone had trouble uploading to the drive, if that happens, just send me your track in a private message. Thanks!

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#113

I put together a little Bandcamp release of tracks based entirely on layered and edited feedback through guitar pedals (mostly just the Boss GT-6 multifx, but also various chains of analogue pedals). I’ve submitted the last one for the compilation.

This whole thread has been fantastic, so many great sounds.

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#114

I’ve been busy working on the song so I haven’t posted much in here lately but I figured I’d post the raw recording of this drum track, most of which probably won’t make it into the song:

It’s very similar to the other drums into mixer feedback loop only this time I only used sinewaves. Some of the sines are melodic, some are more like bassdrums.

@rvense This is incredible. Thank you for sharing.

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#115

Coming in at the last minute. Some feedback gurglings from a Random Source Resonant EQ, LPF’d noise, STO, ring mod, Cold Mac, and some slow knob twiddling. I set out to make something that wasn’t straight drone and I’m happy with the result.

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#116

Wrote a love poem to feedback, in the form of a shakespearian sonnet

the return of a fraction of the out
put signal to the input of the same
device the return of a fraction of
the output signal to the input of
the same device the return of a frac
tion of the output signal to the in
put of the same device the return of
fraction of the signal to the of the
same the return of of the signal the
of the the return of the signal the
the the return the signal the the re
turn the the the return the the return
the the the the the the the the the the
the the the the the the the the the the

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#117

Here’s my final entry for the month.

This is another exploration of sending a droning FM oscillator into multiple feedback paths made up of Tanh3, Tallin, and D0.

@jlmitch5, I uploaded my track for the compilation. Thanks again for putting this prompt together, it’s been a lot of fun!

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#118

9 tracks in the drive! Feel free to take through the weekend to get your track in. @oot @renegog can we include your poems, maybe in the format:

perpetuate repetition
the cycle
inevitably erodes
all meaning
forming
new meaning
from its patchwork
of noise

--oot (or however you'd like to be credited)

~~~

the return of a fraction of the out
put signal to the input of the same
device the return of a fraction of
the output signal to the input of
the same device the return of a frac
tion of the output signal to the in
put of the same device the return of
fraction of the signal to the of the
same the return of of the signal the
of the the return of the signal the
the the return the signal the the re
turn the the the return the the return
the the the the the the the the the the
the the the the the the the the the the

-- renegog (or however you'd like to be credited)
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#119

This is probably the last one I’ll post. It’s not really a full-featured performance, just one element on the song I’m almost almost almost done with.

It’s a vocal part that I am vocoding with microphone and speaker feedback. As the song goes on I increase the release time on the vocoder’s envelope, letting it feedback longer and longer for each syllable.

Other than that, it’s just two takes with different formant and EQ settings spread left and right.

I’ll make it easy for you and add it as lyrics to the song as a final touch.

I’ve decided on Öronbad as my artist name.

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#120

I never got around to doing anything for Feedback February, really very sorry, I wanted too and had some ideas but time disappeared… I am just too busy with existing projects and family life… Maybe next year…

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