i’ve been lowkey hosting a matriarch for a few months now (traded a buncha things) and finally feel like i have a sense of how to incorporate it into my otherwise non-keyboard life. here, i’m just running the four voices individually out through a low pass gate and into three sisters, which is being fm’d by mangrove. the fourth matriarch voice, with some noise, is also routed through the matriarch’s delay.
the rhythms and envelopes are all just friends in geode mode, being triggered through the in-progress ^^jf_geode crow m4l device.
when i first got the matriarch, i put a lot of pressure on only using it. though i got it through trading, it felt irresponsible to treat it like a zillion hp eurorack module. but it became really challenging for me to think of creative ways to exclusively use the matriarch’s on-board modularity – likely because i feel so close to the mannequins line and haven’t connected with many other modules. their perspective has guided my entire experience with modular, which has made it hard to feel engaged by a more traditional building-blocks toolkit.
all to say, it’s been really rewarding to incorporate the matriarch into my normal practice, rather than force it as a centerpiece. the oscillators are stupid gorgeous and really stable.
