#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?

#75

Cheers!

The chords are Plaits in chord mode, with modulation applied to the inversion control (if you have Plaits then make sure to try this… it sounds amazing!).

The output of Plaits was sent through Ripples for some filter modulation.

Pico Voice is the high melody line that crops up every now and then (sequenced and triggered from Marbles), Mangrove is the ‘brassy’ type sound that weaves in and out (sequenced and triggered from Marbles), and Rings is the main melody heard at the start (sequenced and triggered from Korg SQ1).

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#76

Interesting thing to try: X section as an clocked quantizer

Set Spread to zero

Set Steps to the quantized values

Input signal to be quantized into Bias

internal or external clock sets the “resolution”, how soon it picks the next value

Set X to yellow or red modes to have additional random outs

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