Welcome to Mannequins.

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Thank you :slight_smile:

Regarding your problem, there should be a button on the front, left to the level meters with which you can choose what is monitored. Either the incoming signal, or what is on the tape. I would guess that you didn’t push that button after recording and are still monitoring the incoming signal instead of the tape.

Ahhh, that makes sense! I’ll be sure to fiddle more with it soon. I love the saturation this thing makes, can get really fuzzy :zap:

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Happy CNY!

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A meditation for tape saturation

https://soundcloud.com/prms/sittingquietlydoingnothingspringcomesandthegrassgrowsbyitself

op1, rocknplay, bigsky, lofi junkie, mf104

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This is great. Reminds me a bit of The Orb - Orbus Terrarum album starting around the 13 minute mark.

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Thanks! I’ll have to check that one out :slight_smile:

The confusion is part of the fun, and it makes for better music.

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Getting to know Mangrove and Three Sisters.

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My good friend Jon (aka Disc Image) and myself recently put out our first tape as Outer Heaven, entitled Dredger. I like to describe it as “Dead C w/ eurorack” - we’re both interested in free improvisation / electro-acoustic improvisation as we are in more “traditional” things based in drone, as well as just straight IDM and the sort, lol.

Moreau is my little tape label, more here -> moreaueast.bandcamp.com

I decided to try something fairly straightforward in order to practice some mixing techniques… I would have liked to to have added a vocal element to this but I don’t sing and I decided to let it go and move on. Mostly Eurorack with field recordings fed into some of the CV inputs and a piano recorded to cassette tape.

https://soundcloud.com/salierno_d/filnamn1073

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Definitely make that a priority. Orbus Terrarum is a stone cold classic :slight_smile:

Nice. Looking forward to listening to this- good to see a fellow Richmonder on here!

Yet another ambient exploration of the Elektron Digitakt, recorded straight to cassette.

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https://soundcloud.com/namesishard/overthinking-this-title

Today’s patch. Rings, 3 Sisters and ER-301.

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The vocal sample here was something I happened upon via my op-1’s radio, whilst running it through my Cocoquantus… I listened to it permuate for an hour, sounding at times like an old blues singer, a Native American chant, a raga, and of course, like completely unintelligible sample mangle by turns… I actually don’t think the accompanying sounds are particularly complimentary, but was what I had cranking when it was captured. Still haven’t checked on the clean sample to see what it actually is yet, maybe I will tonight.

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Another track that came together nice & quickly - some enveloped noise into Rings “in” with a Euclidian rhythm triggering it - Ornament & Crime’s “Sequins” app providing melodic content to this & an STO - lots of random envelopes from Pamela’s New Workout, some drone underneath from the Mother 32, with Digitakt providing some rhythmic content.

https://soundcloud.com/high-towers-deep-wells/idylls

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Seemed to have lost the topic where we post full releases, so dropping this one here:

Birches Sessions Vol. 3
A compilation of recent electronic works, rounded stylistically under the Birches moniker.
Produced mostly with modular, drum machines and tape. The release is accompanied by a booklet with a photographic selection.

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Having some fun in Live while upgrading rack.
Full track coming soon. Does anyone else share snippets on ig?

Update: full track here

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My new music video of a modular synth composition over images of Antarctica shot while at sea.

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