Hence me uploading the crap I made while doing a tutorial. I upload precious little as it is while trying to ‘finish’ the stuff I consider ‘good’ :slight_smile: And some of the stuff I’ve previously considered throwaway quickly put together off the cuff live messing about have had some of the best responses I’ve had. Go figure.

Sometimes we can be our own worst curators :slight_smile:

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I’ve been hassling @sonocircuit trying to get mlre to be the portable live platform I’ve always dreamed of. Here I’m trying to revive the old mlr preset switching from back in the days that powered the phenomenal live sets where you could mangle many loops from different presets… At the moment it’s only working if the samples have the same duration, but we’ll get there! :sweat_smile:

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Hello, I’m mostly a lurker and echo many of the feelings I see represented in this thread. My partner has been supporting me creating as we have a newborn so giving me some time every day to #jamuary is a big emotional commitment and quite a luxury. Since I committed to it, I have 8 days now in a row.

Some days are just some random shit, and I have to post whatever I get; some days come out pretty nice. Many days I have significant technical issues to work through before I can even Jam (a problem of my creation). For example, on day 6, my phone recording setup just stopped working. Every day I fight through some technical challenge, self-imposed or otherwise but generally have fun at the end. I hope to meet some cool folks who are into making modular music and learning how all this stuff works and where it can go - I have a DIY bend although I love my manufactured modules and gear.

So I hope if you’re participating (or just creating) and you read this, you keep creating through the difficulties, and I’ll see you on the other side at the end of January :slight_smile:

Day 8 jacobnofives on Instagram

Cheers frens

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Day 9:

If I was titling these Jamuary videos, I would have called this one “Loquelic Orchestra”. This is my first patch with the Loquelic Iteritas, and I was surprised and delighted.

Voices:
Loquelic Iteritas

Sequencing/Modulation:
Dual Quantizer (uO_C Hemispheres), Chaos, Sloths

Effects:
Melotus Versio, Imitor Versio, OTO BOUM, OTO BAM

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this is really beautiful. Can you say more about “dusty sines”? Where’s the dust coming from? I like that the feel soft and sine-y but definitely appreciate the dust.

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Made on Jan. 9, using Bitwig’s Grid and XLN Audio’s RC-20 Retro Color:

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another iteration day, building a bit on yesterday’s oooooo idea, but with more explicit drift and modulation built in.

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Instead of Jamuary, this year I’m trying to finish a track every week, maybe culminating in a release of some or all at the end of the year. I hope that’s similar enough to warrant posting here! Here’s week one.

Listen to 1/52 by 365/7=52 on #SoundCloud

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@cwil Cool idea. Maybe I’ll try that next year.

I had an idea about rate modulation that didn’t quite work out. I also didn’t tune my oscillators. But that’s what I could manage tonight.

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Double Knot playing the modular and also playing itself. It’s crazy the difference between how the envelopes sound on the Double Knot’s VCAs vs. the VCAs in my modular system.

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Today’s jam, is dubby (+ raw)—going for a minimal dub techno type atmosphere. Using Doepfer modules for the sounds and drums, and an analog BBD delay by WMD (DPLR) on the bus. It is giving it a real warmth and grungy texture on the delays which I quite like.

And impressed by how much great music folks have posted, lots to explore here :slight_smile:

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just leave ones modules untouched for a couple weeks, natural dusty tones :wink:

this was sines going through a little bit of wavefolder and then through three sisters with a reverb’d white noise going through the FM input and then some gen loss.

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OP1 drones today.

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I’m not set up to do much electronic stuff right now due to some changes in living situation, but I made a simple little groove on the banjo this evening.

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two pianos, digitone, otis, oooooo, just friends, beads, filter pings.

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More details in the YouTube description, but this one is rhythmically driven by Thingamagoop 3000’s blinking LEDacle (getting away from using it as just a pure drone machine). Sound sources are Blades (blippy bits), Synchrodyne (chimes), Thingamagoop/Strega (“strings”), and the VCV Rack version of Cš-L (deep drone).

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I had a lot of fun with this one:

Everything was done on the OP-Z. It was my first time using the OP-Z microphone for vocals, and it’s really fun — to activate microphone mode you hold the OP-Z like a microphone, a pretty ingenious UX.

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tr8s (909 kit) and ob6 pair for a groove, with my rack in the back for bloops. run through analog heat and ua neve eq plugin. this was an exercise in building parts in with the hapax, a fun and nearly intuitive thing. i haven’t explored song mode, so i’m pulling levers here and there.

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gotta try the white noise + verb through FM. Thanks for sharing. Loving everything you’re posting, it all feels very richly composed and focused.

Combo post today. 8 is a little shift messaround to create an “arabesque generator” per Patch and Tweak. I like shift registers. 9 is an experiment aiming for semi-repeating rhythms and “drums” that develop and shift over time.

Feeling the desire to create something more “song”-like after all these exercises. Hopefully I have time later this week.

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Combining NLC Sloths with Ciat-Lonbarde came up over in the CL thread, and that made me want to find the nastiest bass I could squeeze outta the ol’ xylophone.

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