#52

I wrote scenes of that kind, so if you feel like isolating the functions and describe them clearly I could try to make something in the same vein (holidays are coming, I need things to work on :grin: ).

#53

Does it have lfo functionality?

#54

You can make it act like an LFO, or an audio rate VCO (which doesn’t track V/OCT). Use Deja Vu to make it repeat some values, adjust the pattern length, spread and bias for the overall shape/number of steps, and Steps to tweak the smoothness. I was able to get sines, triangles and squares out of it, and more complex shapes with length>2.

#55

Here I’m feeding Marbles a 6-step sequence, quantized (by Teletype in this case, though I could have had Marbles do it if I had set up the custom scale in it). Deja Vu is enabled for both sides, set to 5 steps and about 11 o’clock.

A drum pattern is selected in the “t” section, and Jitter is set to about 12 o’clock to “humanize” the rhythm a bit.

t2 advances the sequencer, t1 and x1 feed Plaits, t3 and x3 feed Rings; both are in FM mode.

https://soundcloud.com/starthief/marble-funk

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#56

I really appreciate this stripped down example. Rad. It’s easy to imagine how to build this up!

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#59

Thanks for sharing! There’s been a dry spell as far as slow tempo Marbles examples are concerned.

Come on Perfect Circuit… send me that shipping notice! :star_struck:

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The dice :heart:

Can’t wait to get home!

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#63

Plaits in inharmonic string mode, Cold Mac noise thru LxD, W/ is delay. Marbles is the only sequencer, tweaks made through the recording.

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#65

Had my first proper play with Marbles tonight. Took 1/2 an hour or so to get my head around it, but I’m loving it now.

I can see me also using this as my main clock source (the jitter control adds a nice humanised element).

Here’s what I came up with after a couple hours:

Marbles is sequencing a Mangrove and Erica Pico Voice. The main melody is a random sequence from the Korg SQ1.

Looking forward to feeding it an existing sequence/cv next and seeing what it can do next!

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#66

Really enjoyed that! Thanks or sharing.

#67

feed Marbles from the SQ1 see what happens to that sequence

#68

wow, really beautiful! after hearing harbour earlier today and now this, I’m in bliss

#69

fantastic! This make me want to grab one!

#70

There is some amazing plucked violin vibes here! Amazing, love this so much! Are you willing to share some other patch notes on this?!

#71

IIRC the patch is relatively simple. I think it was Marbles doing the triggering and pitch-CV (with the built-in quantizer), with some modulation on the t section’s BIAS, which creates these intermittently faster notes. Everything then passes through a delay (I think Chronoblob with a VCF in the send-return loop). Rings is being modulated by Marbles and by some other LFOs (likely Stages) and its excitation signal comes from Tides. Maybe I was also modulating Tides’ level with Marbles…
I think that’s all there is to it, I remember it being a very simple patch.

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#72

this is awesome! vaguely reminds me of some of the ambient sound beds in the movie “her”

#73

Thanks for the kind words everyone, most appreciated.

I must remember to watch Her. Joaquin Phoenix always does good films, I want to catch 'You Were Never really Here. I think Jonny Greenwood did the score for it as well (sorry for the derail :grinning:).

Back on track, I was thinking that Marbles and Plaits (along with a few other goodies) in a 42hp ‘lunchbox’ would make a very capable+portable sequencer+synth combo!

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#74

Loved it as well, are the chords the Pico Voice?