Been really into combining generative music with something repeatable. MPC Live sending a basic sequence to the Empress Zoia. Zoia is using probabilities to decide whether it will send the MPC pitch or it’s own, and whether to use the MPC’s gate or its own. The Zoia has multiple gates generated based on clock divisions and randomly chooses one via a couple sequential switches. The Zoia then sends the note and gate it decided on to the Moog Sirin. It doesn’t make another decision until the gate is done (using comparators for that) Sirin is playing a piano/string kind of patch I made.
My dotcom modular off to the right is doing something similar: receiving gates from the keystep (synced via midi from the MPC Live). The MU is using ornament and crime to determine pitch, triggered from a combo of the Gate Math module and a comparator module creating random gates by adjusting the threshold using an LFO, with a noise source into the positive input. Those random gates are synced to clock with a vca. Gate Math gate into the CV input to allow the string of gates to pass through. Modular is doing a sort of string kinda patch, running audio into the Zoia. Zoia is doing double duty here by also applying a BBD delay and reverb to the modular synth.
MPC Live has a basic beat going, but the toms and sub kicks are randomly cycling through layers, some of which have silent audio - a trick that basically skips playing them like 33% of the time.
