Notes for my track Skylore:
This track was written in a Stockholm hotel room, looking out just before sunset and one of those beautiful skies that are just pure graduated colours. I don’t have a picture - but really it’s the effect of the winter light that made this. There’s also something in the short days that enhances this, or at least changes your perception of it. So the track tries to capture this depth.
The track is synthesised entirely in Max, and is then mixed in Live. I’ve been a bit obsessed by this gen~ rungler patch posted on the C74 forums a while back: https://cycling74.com/forums/sharing-is-rungling-stepped-havoc-in-gen, and have spent a bit of time tinkering with the arrangement inside along with building a control system around it. This is the current setup, with outputs from each of the runglers, plus phasor outputs driving a slave set of wave~ oscillators, then a whole bunch of other oscillators modulating amplitude - from lfo to audio range, with others modulating frequency (rect~'s at the top). Filtering is handled by the wonderful Surreal Machines Sallen & Key filter, and reverb by the Beap Gigaverb.
The thing I’ve noticed about this patch is that at very low rungle amounts (If that is the correct term?) the sound is more like a chorus rather than chaotic pattern. This is what you hear in the song. Another area I’m exploring is this approach of many free running modulating oscillators that feels very modular.
Hope you enjoy it.
