At its most basic, i have the following almost always set up: normal monophonic mode (one track per output pair), tracks 1 thru 3 are patched to my three VCOs (Plaits, Rings, Mangrove). They all take Hermod’s CV into their pitch inputs, Plaits and Rings take the gate into their level/trig inputs, and Mangrove i’ll patch the gate coming out of Hermod into an envelope generator to a VCA (rather than using Magrove’s air input, which I’ll CV from other sources instead). Track 8 I have reserved for clock out, in “G8+RUN” mode (so the CV is a “run” signal, and the gate is the clock), patched into the run and clock inputs on Pam’s. From there, I use Pam as my lead clock.
All of that i have saved to the default project, so that’s the default state whenever i turn on Hermod. I have my keyboard plugged in to the MIDI in, and i’ll typically choose a voice and come up with something, tap BPM into Hermod, then and record a loop. Then i’ll layer in other voices. If i don’t like a part later, quick clear -> record something new.
The main other ways i’ll get melodies going is either patching Marbles’ gates&CVs into Hermod’s inputs, or using Hermod’s built-in randomizer (run thru a pitch quantizer). Sometimes i’ll mix and match, and have a manually performed melody on one track or two, and the others randomized.
So yeah, nothing too complicated, but it matches my workflow exactly – quick and precise loop recording paired with being the lead clock’s secret leader. Rhythm and pitch quantization available if desired.
