Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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this is my submission for this weekend's hardware challenge :-)

FIVE is a minimal piece consisting of two sequencer parts and four drones and is now available on my latest album called NUMBERS on Bandcamp

synkrotron.bandcamp.com/album/numbers

Metropolis and Pressure Points (with Brains) are the sequencers used

one drone was created by Elements with the gate held open and playing a low C

another by a Doepfer A-110 standard VCO square wave also tuned to a low C and sent into the Wasp filter with lots of resonance

yet another was a 2HP VCO square wave output this time tuned to G and sent into an Ivo low pass filter

the West Pest tuned to G and hold turned on and the wave fold modulated by its internal LFO was used for the last drone part

the opening sequencer part was made up of six sine waves courtesy of two disting Mk3, two disting Mk4 and two Lorelei VCO and was played by Metropolis

each oscillator was then tuned to the harmonic series for the fundamental and five partials

Oscillator 1 at Fundamental Frequency = C2
Oscillator 2 at Fundamental Frequency x 2
Oscillator 3 at Fundamental Frequency x 3
Oscillator 4 at Fundamental Frequency x 4
Oscillator 5 at Fundamental Frequency x 5
Oscillator 6 at Fundamental Frequency x 6

the fundamental sine was sent directly to a Doepfer A-138 four input mixer and its level controlled there

the five partials were routed to the AJH Triple Cross cross fader module with the balance modulated via LFO and the three outputs sent to the remaining inputs of the A-138 mixer for further balance control

the output of the mixer was sent to an Ivo low pass filter for further sound manipulation

the second sequence was Mavis with the pitch CV provided by Pressure Points and the gate provided by Pam's New Workout set to a Euclidean pattern

the sequencer parts were sent via the aux outputs of the Doepfer performance mixer to a disting C3 ping pong delay algorithm

all tracks were sent through the MPX 500 multi effects unit for reverb

you can see me building up my sine wave patch here

youtube.com/live/O2Xx6Ke2EkM?t=630s