Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Since I've been doing a tutorial series on the DFAM for the last several weeks, I wanted to do a live techno performance using the Moog DFAM as my main drum voice. I'm using it as the kick and the "click" hi hat. I have a ton of synths, so I thought I would do something pseudo minimalist techno and have some different voices coming in and out. I wanted to try to make a club track to dance to from all these different voices I have, and I think I mostly succeeded. Because I'm a musician, I love dancing, and I hope you enjoy!
I'm using the ARP-2600 for the main arpeggio, the Moog Grandmother combined with reverb and delay for texture, an Instruo CS-L for the bass voice, an AJH Synth vintage VCO for the other arpeggio, and the Make Noise Morphagene for the vocal textures. Full patch notes below.
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Patch Notes:
Korg ARP-2600 (full size)- controls main clock at 130 bpm. Using sawtooth waveform from all three oscillators. Trigger out is syncing both the master clock and the internal sample and hold clock. ADSR and Sample and Hold are modulating filter, and I'm also manually moving the filter frequency.
Moog Grandmother- normalled patch with low sustain, fast decay. Oscillator 2 is tuned one fifth up from oscillator 1. Audio to Make Noise Erbeverb with a large hall type reverb. Audio to 4ms Tapographic delay with complex tapped pattern using resonant mode.
Eurorack-
Make Noise Morphagene with vocal sample to After Later Audio Monsoon, which is a clone of Clouds. I'm making a lot of use of grain size and density to vary the amount of the vocal sample that comes through.
Stillson Hammer Sequencer driving:
Instruo CS-L Bass voice set to hard sync. Square wave out to Serge Random Source Variable Q VCF. Low pass filter to ALM Tangle Quartet to Intellijel mixer. Frequency modulation from Make Noise Maths receiving gate and generating envelopes for filter and VCA.
AJH Synths Vintage VCO to Bubblesound SEM20 filter. AJH Synth Envelope generator receiving gates and generating envelopes for filter, PWM, and VCA. Audio to ALM Tangle Quartet to Make Noise Echophon delay to Intellijel mixer.
Since I've been doing a tutorial series on the DFAM for the last several weeks, I wanted to do a live techno performance using the Moog DFAM as my main drum voice. I'm using it as the kick and the "click" hi hat. I have a ton of synths, so I thought I would do something pseudo minimalist techno and have some different voices coming in and out. I wanted to try to make a club track to dance to from all these different voices I have, and I think I mostly succeeded. Because I'm a musician, I love dancing, and I hope you enjoy!
I'm using the ARP-2600 for the main arpeggio, the Moog Grandmother combined with reverb and delay for texture, an Instruo CS-L for the bass voice, an AJH Synth vintage VCO for the other arpeggio, and the Make Noise Morphagene for the vocal textures. Full patch notes below.
If you enjoyed this, please consider supporting my Patreon: patreon.com/ethanjamesmusic
My shorts channel: youtube.com/channel/UC_BcJob-VaouHlwAKm7mxkA
My long form channel: youtube.com/channel/UCggb6vbFk8aWDY8zqlgK47Q
Patch Notes:
Korg ARP-2600 (full size)- controls main clock at 130 bpm. Using sawtooth waveform from all three oscillators. Trigger out is syncing both the master clock and the internal sample and hold clock. ADSR and Sample and Hold are modulating filter, and I'm also manually moving the filter frequency.
Moog Grandmother- normalled patch with low sustain, fast decay. Oscillator 2 is tuned one fifth up from oscillator 1. Audio to Make Noise Erbeverb with a large hall type reverb. Audio to 4ms Tapographic delay with complex tapped pattern using resonant mode.
Eurorack-
Make Noise Morphagene with vocal sample to After Later Audio Monsoon, which is a clone of Clouds. I'm making a lot of use of grain size and density to vary the amount of the vocal sample that comes through.
Stillson Hammer Sequencer driving:
Instruo CS-L Bass voice set to hard sync. Square wave out to Serge Random Source Variable Q VCF. Low pass filter to ALM Tangle Quartet to Intellijel mixer. Frequency modulation from Make Noise Maths receiving gate and generating envelopes for filter and VCA.
AJH Synths Vintage VCO to Bubblesound SEM20 filter. AJH Synth Envelope generator receiving gates and generating envelopes for filter, PWM, and VCA. Audio to ALM Tangle Quartet to Make Noise Echophon delay to Intellijel mixer.
