Uploaded May 2017 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago
Lords of the West Patch Notes
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Involved modules
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Intellijel 1U Random/Clock
4ms Rotating Clock Divider and Breakout
Microbe Modular Meta Sequencer
Mutable Instruments (MI) Rings
MI Clouds
MI Rings
MI Veils
2 x MI Peaks
Ornament & Crime (O+C)
Intellijel 1U Quadratt
Intellijel 1U Buffered Mult
Intellijel 1U Digitank Reverb
Transient Modules 6ch Mixer
Pittsburgh Outs
Routing/Control
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Intellijel 1U Random/Clock source drives all timing.
RCD in gate mode.
Microbe Modular Meta Sequencer provides the only true sequence — it’s 1v/oct CV out is fed to Rings’ 1v/oct input.
Rings magically derives triggers from the 1v/oct input. However, I occasionally triggered it with a Track & Hold output from the random/clock source. That’s what I’m doing with that orange cable on the left. And sometimes I left the cable plugged into Rings and unplugged the source side. That effectively “mutes” Rings.
Rings Even output multed to provide FM back to Rings, via Veils modulated by attenuated lower Peaks in LFO mode.
Rings set up in sympathetic string mode with 4 voice polyphony.
Rings Damping and Position parameters wiggled by O+C.
Rings outputs to Clouds.
Clouds Position modulated by multed right channel output. Clouds Freeze alternated by lower Peaks in square LFO mode.
Drum/percussion sounds provided by upper Peaks in 808 mode, triggered by RCD, reverbed by Digitank Reverb.
Elements tuned to a specific note with Gate in provided by RCD. RCD /8 channel hits Strength (got a little out of hand sometimes).
Elements Blow, Bow, Strike Timbre and Damping, Position, and Brightness CVs modulated by O+C.
Finally, I'm "playing" Rings' Strum input by occasionally jacking in the Track and Hold from the Intellijel 1U Random/Clock module. That's why that orange cable is constantly in my left hand. Occasionally, I'll just leave it jacked into the Strum input but NOT plugged into any CV source. That effectively mutes Rings.
Mixing Tricks
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Elements and Rings are both stereo modules, if you want them to be (I do). Stereo creates some interesting mixing challenges.
Mixing is a little tricky because I don’t have a dedicated stereo panning mixer in this case (I have a nice Sputnik 6ch in my big case). But I *do* have the Transient Modules 2x3 mixer and the Pitts Outs module. I pretend that the individual mixer outputs of the 2x3 are “left” and “right” channels and feed those straight into the Outs’ stereo ins.
Bummer is, if you send a mono signal into a single side/channel of the 2x3 mixer it will come out hard-panned to that channel, with no way to pan it. My trick to convert the 2x3 mixer into a stereo panning mixer is to first send any “single channel mono” signal into a mult and bring two channels out. This makes it a “two channel mono” signal. I then feed the signal into two parallel channels of the mixer as a pair. Then, I can use the individual level controls to pan the mono signal. This is pretty flexible and works fine, but results in a lot of redundant patching and also requires submixing for anything more than a single mono signal. A panning mixer would be more elegant in this case, but I suppose some would argue it would be less “modular”.
For the drums, which start as two separate channels of Peaks, I submix those down to one channel in the Quadratt before doing the above trick. Mixing attenuators or VCAs are pretty much a requirement for this hack if you’re going to mix many signals at all.
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Lords of the West Patch Notes
VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
Involved modules
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Intellijel 1U Random/Clock
4ms Rotating Clock Divider and Breakout
Microbe Modular Meta Sequencer
Mutable Instruments (MI) Rings
MI Clouds
MI Rings
MI Veils
2 x MI Peaks
Ornament & Crime (O+C)
Intellijel 1U Quadratt
Intellijel 1U Buffered Mult
Intellijel 1U Digitank Reverb
Transient Modules 6ch Mixer
Pittsburgh Outs
Routing/Control
- - - - - - - - - - - -
Intellijel 1U Random/Clock source drives all timing.
RCD in gate mode.
Microbe Modular Meta Sequencer provides the only true sequence — it’s 1v/oct CV out is fed to Rings’ 1v/oct input.
Rings magically derives triggers from the 1v/oct input. However, I occasionally triggered it with a Track & Hold output from the random/clock source. That’s what I’m doing with that orange cable on the left. And sometimes I left the cable plugged into Rings and unplugged the source side. That effectively “mutes” Rings.
Rings Even output multed to provide FM back to Rings, via Veils modulated by attenuated lower Peaks in LFO mode.
Rings set up in sympathetic string mode with 4 voice polyphony.
Rings Damping and Position parameters wiggled by O+C.
Rings outputs to Clouds.
Clouds Position modulated by multed right channel output. Clouds Freeze alternated by lower Peaks in square LFO mode.
Drum/percussion sounds provided by upper Peaks in 808 mode, triggered by RCD, reverbed by Digitank Reverb.
Elements tuned to a specific note with Gate in provided by RCD. RCD /8 channel hits Strength (got a little out of hand sometimes).
Elements Blow, Bow, Strike Timbre and Damping, Position, and Brightness CVs modulated by O+C.
Finally, I'm "playing" Rings' Strum input by occasionally jacking in the Track and Hold from the Intellijel 1U Random/Clock module. That's why that orange cable is constantly in my left hand. Occasionally, I'll just leave it jacked into the Strum input but NOT plugged into any CV source. That effectively mutes Rings.
Mixing Tricks
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Elements and Rings are both stereo modules, if you want them to be (I do). Stereo creates some interesting mixing challenges.
Mixing is a little tricky because I don’t have a dedicated stereo panning mixer in this case (I have a nice Sputnik 6ch in my big case). But I *do* have the Transient Modules 2x3 mixer and the Pitts Outs module. I pretend that the individual mixer outputs of the 2x3 are “left” and “right” channels and feed those straight into the Outs’ stereo ins.
Bummer is, if you send a mono signal into a single side/channel of the 2x3 mixer it will come out hard-panned to that channel, with no way to pan it. My trick to convert the 2x3 mixer into a stereo panning mixer is to first send any “single channel mono” signal into a mult and bring two channels out. This makes it a “two channel mono” signal. I then feed the signal into two parallel channels of the mixer as a pair. Then, I can use the individual level controls to pan the mono signal. This is pretty flexible and works fine, but results in a lot of redundant patching and also requires submixing for anything more than a single mono signal. A panning mixer would be more elegant in this case, but I suppose some would argue it would be less “modular”.
For the drums, which start as two separate channels of Peaks, I submix those down to one channel in the Quadratt before doing the above trick. Mixing attenuators or VCAs are pretty much a requirement for this hack if you’re going to mix many signals at all.
#eurorack #modular #synth #synthesizer #performance #music #electronic #mutable #instruments #rings #clouds #elements #peaks
