Thanks @_mark and @anon45924993 for making this happen!
Some notes on my track ‘For N.M.’
I took the patch apart shortly after recording, so these are rough notes. The only sound source was the 4ms SMR through Erbeverb, then straight into my interface. The SMR was getting pings on both inputs from Bastl Little Nerd in Euclidean mode, clocked by a really slow LFO (either Batumi or uLFO, don’t quite remember). Levels of each channel were being cv’d by other channels of Batumi and envelops that were being triggered by other channels of Little Nerd, also in Euclidean mode. There was lots of cross modulation between Batumi, uLFO, envelops and probably had some wogglebug in there too.
A relatively simple patch. At times it sounds like a loop, but there’s very subtle, slow moving variation thanks to the very subtle cross modulation. This quality of repetition and super slow moving change is a quality I really like in drone/ambient music.
One main section with 5 or 6 of the SMR channels sounding, then embellished with two additional runs through the same patch, but with slightly different settings in rate on the LFO controlling the whole thing and just one or two deliberately selected notes sounding on the SMR.
After reading the discussion way back in the thread about stereo spread and keeping bass centered, I decided to try out some of the suggestions and use a M/S eq plugin on the various tracks; reinforcing the bass on the M channel and higher register tones on the S channels. This really changed the track for me and brought some clarity and space to it, so thanks for the suggestions in that discussion! I found it really helpful when working on this.
Best,
mm
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