It took a few months, but the ciani patch has returned. Added a 64 grid to my teletype scene using @scanner_darkly 's module and haiku which he realized for me (thank u 
). Changed out 2nd Mangrove for a Telharmonic which I’m still wrapping my head around but is gorgeous. There’s also a Telexn in there I’m using as a fixed matrix mixer, right now I have it going to two separate w/2 delays. The W/2s i’m still figuring out exactly how they’ll fit in, that’s the main part of this patch that is still being tweaked. Otherwise the patch is quite similar to the previous iteration so I wont go into it too much more again.
So far, this is getting me closer to what I wanted, which is to create brain room for sequencing, structure, and song-making. Using the grid, I am doing some steevio inspired pitch sequencing for telharmonic and mangrove (combining values from two separate sequences running at different lengths or speeds to get longer, related but transforming sequences). Separately sequencing envelopes using JF in Geode, and triggering samples from Grandpa… I’m not 100% to the point where all my “patching” is inside teletype, which is sort of where I was going theoretically.
After patching this all up, I thought “they should make these with all the cables behind the panel” which amused me somewhat, but I think it belies the actual issue here which is that the limitations I am trying to give myself are not limiting enough, but also might be a little bit too limiting in some regards. In some ways this is a problem of imagination (especially when it comes to utilizing teletype) and externalizing it doesn’t solve any problem, and indeed the pursuit of some end or perfection is, in part, the same deluded thinking that contributes to GAS among other fallacies we tell ourselves.
The next iteration, I am going to take inspiration from the DFAM and try to make something similar using grid ops. Trying to simplify sequencing even more, to move away from trying to juggle arrangements (which I feel is part of the problem I face in the uninspired sameness that I’ve been wringing out of this system the past couple weeks) towards a more unified “single voice” instrument (not in technical terms, but in feeling).
The struggle with this infuriating and inspiring machine continues.
