Instant ambient with Microcosm @suturesound

SUTURE SOUND Turning a super basic sound from the OP-1 into lush gorgeousness with the Hologram Microcosm. One take, no additional processing.

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Instant ambient with Microcosm

SUTURE SOUND 2021-05-02 | Turning a super basic sound from the OP-1 into lush gorgeousness with the Hologram Microcosm. One take, no additional processing.

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Spectraphon into Mimeophon is a journey

SUTURE SOUND 2024-05-17 | Spectraphon through Mimeophon is a world unto itself! Keeping it pretty simple here and just modulating timbral parameters, delay time, clock speed, and envelope shapes, while a sequence runs. Modules:
Spectraphon link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fmake-noise-soundhack-spectraphon.html
Black K-Phaser link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Ferica-black-k-phaser.html
Maths link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fmake-noise-maths.html
Rene 2 link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fmake-noise-rene-2018.html
Wogglebug link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fmake-noise-wogglebug-1.html
OCHD link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fdivkid-ochd.html
LED patch cables myvolts.com/Halo

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Moog Spectravox — 9 Experiments

SUTURE SOUND 2024-05-14 | Thank you Moog for providing an early unit for me to work with! moogmusic.com

Also in this video:
Ghost: link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fendorphin-es-ghost.html
Helical: link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fsdkc-instruments-helical.html
Addition: link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fsdkc-instruments-addition.html
uTides v2: afterlateraudio.com/products/utides-v2
Bela Gliss: link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fbela-gliss.html
Pod60: perfectcircuit.com/4ms-pod-60hp-powered.html?utm_source=pepperjam&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=241038&clickId=4747205949

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Chapters
0:00 Marimba patch
0:15 Snares & pebbles
0:29 Envelope to spectral shift
0:54 Vocoder
1:01 Voice to pitch
1:07 Voice to LFO
1:35 Tap mic for cool drums
1:40 Dynamic noise
1:49 10-band filter bank

Fascinating new granular + sample workflows with Tempera

SUTURE SOUND 2024-04-18 | An exploration of Tempera! playtempera.com
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Techniques for a nasty modular groove

SUTURE SOUND 2023-09-25 | Just an assortment of weird patch techniques! Modules in use (affiliate links with Perfect Circuit):
Winter Plankton Zaps link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fwinter-plankton-zaps.html
Bastl Kompas link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fbastl-kompas.html
Bastl Dark Matter link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fbastl-instruments-dark-matter.html
Qu-Bit Aurora link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fqu-bit-aurora.html
Qu-Bit Chance link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fqu-bit-chance-random-generator.html
Frap Tools Falistri link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Ffrap-tools-falistri.html
Cosmotronic Peradam link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fcosmotronic-peradam.html

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Chapters:
0:00 Fixed rhythm, randomly selected drums
0:35 Feedback bass lines
1:54 Reverb hats with an inverted envelope
3:15 Distort the distortion
3:50 Audio-rate modulation on distortion
5:25 Dropping the clock and playing the feedback

The FX Jumping Trick

Making a horrible sound beautiful

SUTURE SOUND 2022-11-02 | Ghost: perfectcircuit.com/endorphin-es-ghost.html?utm_source=pepperjam&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=241038&clickId=4131805538

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Ambient guitar improv with 4 Microcosms

SUTURE SOUND 2022-09-28 | Hologram Electronics recently sent me a pile of Microcosms for a future sponsored segment on my main channel. Of course, I've been exploring this quadruple-Microcosm setup and inevitably come up with a bunch of gorgeous stuff, so here's some of that. 100% improvised guitar on the C Lydian scale. Microcosms in order of signal flow are set to Tunnel 1, Mosaic 4, Blocks 2, Seq 2.

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Melody & Chord Progression Generator

Fun patch ideas with 0-Coast / 0-CTRL / Strega

SUTURE SOUND 2022-08-18 | 0-Coast: link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fmake-noise-0-coast.html

0-CTRL: link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fmake-noise-0-ctrl.html

Strega: link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fmake-noise-strega.html

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Deep Ambient: Hyve Touch Synth x Microcosm

SUTURE SOUND 2022-06-22 | Hyve Touch Synth improv through Hologram Microcosm. Added light layers of seed shaker and dead leaves, also through Microcosm, via a Soyuz Bomblet mic amplified to line level with a Universal Audio LA-610 MKII.

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Fantastic granular synthesis with Miso Cornflakes

SUTURE SOUND 2022-06-06 | Modules in this video (affiliate links with Perfect Circuit):
Cornflakes link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fmiso-modular-cornflakes.html
Akemie's Taiko link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Falm-busy-circuits-akemies-tiako.html
Ground Control link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fendorphines-ground-control.html
Desmodus Versio link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fnoise-engineering-desmodus-versio.html
7U Performance Case link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/S0BERUlFSUBFR0RDRktATEpITA?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perfectcircuit.com%2Fintellijel-performance-case.html

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Leaves sound awesome through a guitar pedal (ASMR?)

SUTURE SOUND 2022-04-28 | A variety of atmospheres from a pedal and some leaves! The mic (Soyuz Bomblet) is going through an LA-610 preamp offscreen to get it to line level before hitting the Microcosm.

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Plant plays ambient music

SUTURE SOUND 2022-03-26 | Patch notes below. Cheers to Aleks from Signal Sounds for sending me the Instruo modules to explore! signalsounds.com

Scion gathers biofeedback data from the plant and converts it to 4 CV and 4 gate signals. The 4 gates trigger envelopes on the Velectronic A-Envelope, which in turn control the level of the 4 channels of the Erica Synths Black Quad VCA 2. Each of those channels is being fed one of Qu-Bit Chord's note outputs. Qu-Bit is set to harmonize to the major scale, and its note/chord selection and waveshape are modulated by some of Scion's CVs. Mixing through Make Noise's X-PAN, two channels' notes are panned a bit to the left and the other two are panned a bit to the right.

All of Scion's output voltages are also converted to MIDI via a Befaco CV Thing, and the MIDI controls parameters on the Hologram Microcosm, which is processing all of the audio. Though I patched and experimented with all 8 outputs I didn't end up using them all; as I recall I ended up modulating Microcosm's Activity, Shape, Time, Repeats, and preset selection. The Space parameter is also providing the lovely end-of-chain reverb.

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Velectronic A-Envelope: Demo & Video Manual

SUTURE SOUND 2022-01-24 | Official website: velectronic.net/a-envelope
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Chapters:
0:30 Panel overview
2:12 Associated envelopes and polyphony
4:42 Precision adjustments
5:56 Modulation inputs
7:07 Adjusting and modulating the total envelope amplitude
7:36 Looping modes
8:06 Activation modes
8:44 BEOS outputs
10:20 Final thoughts

A nerdy tip for fun drum sounds

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Blue Dawn 🧿 2 hours of modular synth for sleep/relaxation

SUTURE SOUND 2021-12-22 | I’ve done a better mix of this patch which is now available on streaming :) fanlink.to/AndrewHuang-BlueDawn

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Ambient music, but make it disgusting

SUTURE SOUND 2021-12-09 | Testing Castor & Pollux for the first time and ended up playing with this patch for over an hour! Disclosure: I was sent some of the modules in this video, but with no obligation to say or share anything.
Winterbloom Castor & Pollux winterbloom.com/shop
Earthquaker Afterneath earthquakerdevices.com
Erica Synths Black Dual ASR EG https://www.ericasynths.lv/shop/eurorack-modules/by-series/black-series/black-dual-asr-eg/

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Raindrops *｡⋆ 1 hour of modular synth for sleep/relaxation

SUTURE SOUND 2021-11-14 | A .wav download of this as well as an alternate take with a different mix is available on my Patreon: http://patreon.com/andrewhuang

Patched with Rob Scallon :)
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Making a track with the ARP 2600 M

SUTURE SOUND 2021-11-12 | Thank you Korg for giving me early access to the synth!

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Weird self-playing Eurorack patch

SUTURE SOUND 2021-10-08 | Patch notes:

Qu-Bit Bloom, Qu-Bit Chance, 2hp Rnd, Music Thing Modular Turing Machine, Mutable Instruments Branches and Ritual Electronics Pointeuse are all generating random modulation and/or gate streams. Some of them are modulating each other in addition to the voices. I'm basically mixing up lots of different combos of all that CV via a 4ms VCA Matrix and NLC Let's Splosh, and sending it all around the system.

Pitches and laser beam sounds are a Pittsburgh Modular Lifeforms SV-1 with envelopes from Ritual Electronics Anima. Percussion comes from Intellijel Plonk and Mutable Instruments Rings. Happy Nerding FX Aid fades in and out on the end of the chain to provide the pitch-drifting reverb.

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The next level of drum machines: LXR-02

SUTURE SOUND 2021-09-27 | I've had a ton of fun getting to know the LXR-02. Thanks to Erica Synths for sponsoring this video! They've been making killer stuff for years and I'm always happy when we can support each other. More info here: https://www.ericasynths.lv/shop/standalone-instruments-1/drum-synthesizer-lxr-02/

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Spontaneous harmony Eurorack patch

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Haunting ambient drones with Lyra-8 and Microcosm

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The gnarly tones of Ritual Electronics!

SUTURE SOUND 2021-02-17 | Thanks to Ritual Electronics for sending these to me to check out! ritualelectronics.com

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Half hour of modular synth talking to itself

SUTURE SOUND 2021-01-21 | Getting somewhere with my self-playing patch goals - no samples, all synthesis! I'm enjoying this patch for its breadth of dynamics and sonic variation. There's a lot going on here but I'll share the main points and major principles:

Mutable Instruments Marbles provides the main clock. An ALM Busy Circuits Boss Bow Tie randomly switches between the negative and positive LFO output of a slowly cycling Make Noise Function, and that signal modulates the clock rate - sometimes launching it into audio rate or slowing it to a crawl. At times the clock rate remains steady when Function's Hang input is engaged by a gate from a 4ms Quad Clock Distributor + Expander, which itself is being clocked by Marbles.

Sacrament Cursible switches between six sound sources: Synth Tech E330, After Later Juggler, two channels from Endorphin.es Furthrrrr Generator (one going into Intellijel Rainmaker), Mutable Instruments Ripples self-oscillating into Monsoon (left and right channels). Each voice has varying degrees of random modulation dialed in.

Cursible's output is fed into a VCA opened by a Make Noise Contour. This is the only envelope in the entire patch! Its attack and decay are both being randomly modulated but with a bias toward shorter gestures. An interesting chain triggers it: Marbles' t3 output, fed through Branches for random skips, clocking a 4ms Pingable Envelope Generator with its clock division being randomly modulated, and taking the Half-R gate output from there.

The signal is then multed to both sides of a 4ms Dual Looping Delay, both at half wet, with their delay times being modulated independently. This results in some of the glitchy sounds you hear.

Those two signals are then sent through different but mirrored chains - a modulated high pass filter followed by a compressor. In one case it's Random*Source Serge VCFQ into Audio Damage Kompressor, and in the other it's Ritual Electronics Altar into 2hp Comp. Both filters' frequency and resonance parameters are being modulated with smooth random. The signals are then mixed with Make Noise X-Pan, with a little modulation over pan amounts.

X-Pan's outputs go to a Make Noise Mimeophon, mix at about 40% wet. Skew is on so the two channels' delay times differ from each other, and most parameters are being modulated so that delay times might be tiny or huge and have varying levels of feedback. This is also the reason why multiple sounds are often layered in the patch even though Cursible is only spitting out one at a time. Halo (Mimeophon's reverb) is swelling in and out with semi-random timing.

Modulation sources not mentioned above: Instruo DivKid OCHD, ADDAC VC Transitions, Vermona Fourmulator, Qu-Bit Bloom, NLC Triple Sloths, Moffenzeef Deviant, SSF DivKid RND STEP, Doepfer A-148, Make Noise Maths, Make Noise Telharmonic, 2hp LFO.

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Pulsar-23 is my favorite drum machine ever!

SUTURE SOUND 2020-11-08 | A dive into the unique and characterful world of this monster of an instrument. Props to Vlad and everyone at Soma for bringing these tools into the world: somasynths.com
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3 Module Challenge: Rainmaker, Chance, BIA

SUTURE SOUND 2020-09-30 | This is a pretty killer combo!!

Patch notes:
I did have an external pulse just to get things going - triggering Chance at quarter notes. Chance's Rhythm output triggers BIA, and its Discrete, Wavetable and Blend outputs modulate BIA's Morph, Fold, Attack, and Decay. Smooth is self patched to modulate Blend. BIA's output is processed by Rainmaker. The clock is shared to Rainmaker's Trig input, which has been assigned to randomize a randomly selected parameter with each trigger received. (Ignore Rainmaker's Mod A and Mod B inputs which aren't active here - there were just cables hanging out from a previous patch.)

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Just mangling a sample with Phonogene

SUTURE SOUND 2020-09-23 | Having fun destroying a really short sound bite from Basimilus Iteritas Alter. 😁 I think there was some Clouds reverb on the sample as well. It’s ridiculously fun to have such direct control over just a few basic parameters - speed / grain size / playback direction.

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Queen of Pentacles, 909 analog drums / sample player / FX!

SUTURE SOUND 2020-09-09 | Thanks Endorphin.es for sending me an early Queen of Pentacles! Serial #002 woo! endorphin.es

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Eurorack generative ambient beats

SUTURE SOUND 2020-08-29 | Shoutout to WMD, really loving these percussion modules!
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First patch with Qu-Bit Surface

SUTURE SOUND 2020-08-10 | Patch notes below!

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Pluck model selected on Surface, driven by a stochastic pentatonic sequence from Winter Modular Eloquencer. A second Eloquencer sequence changes Surface's decay time semi-randomly with each note.

Audio is fed through a Bird Kids Bateleur for a bit of a low pass filter envelope with each note (env from Doepfer A-141-2), as well as slow modulation of the cutoff and subtle tremolo-like modulation of the resonance via some LFOs from Mutable Instruments Stages attenuated through Veils.

The signal is further processed with a 2hp Grain, adding a 16th note delay that is pitched shifted up a whole tone, giving the original pentatonic sequence a more lydian flavor (or is the whole patch just vamping on a IV chord?)

Everything is compressed a bit with the new 2hp Comp and then passed through an Erica Synths Pico DSP for reverb.

Additional LFOs from Stages modulate Surface's tone and strike, Grain's density, and Pico DSP's reverb time.

This is the ultimate FM synth! (Humble Audio Quad Operator)

SUTURE SOUND 2019-11-28 | Thanks to Humble Audio for sending over the Quad Operator and Algo! https://humble.audio/
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First patch with Instruo Arbhar + Polyend Preset

SUTURE SOUND 2019-11-26 | Not on screen: Plaits as sound source with Stages providing clock and additional modulation. Everything running through stock Ableton reverb.
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4 Patches with Mimeophon

SUTURE SOUND 2019-09-25 | A huge range of sounds with Mimeophon at the center of it all!
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Exploring the wild distortion of Mystic Circuits Portal

SUTURE SOUND 2019-09-08 | Thanks to Eli of Mystic Circuits for sending me Portal to check out and also being an all around rad dude: mysticcircuits.com
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Digitone Keys First Impressions!

SUTURE SOUND 2019-05-08 | Digitone Keys is the newest release from Elektron. They gave me this unit but they are not paying me and they did not ask me to make this video.
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Audiophile Circuits League demo & review!

SUTURE SOUND 2019-04-10 | Demo and review of ACL Variable Sync VCO, Envelope X3, Dual State Variable VCF, Multi II, and Audio Interface.
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Triad Flux | Andrew Huang

SUTURE SOUND 2019-02-11 | Patch notes below. This is track 3 from my new album "The Lyres In Trees": http://fanlink.to/lyres
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There are two voices in this patch: nRings plucking through a Pittsburgh Analog Delay, and a self-oscillating Tràigh whistling above it.

This was my first time experimenting with the Harrington 1200 mode in Ornament & Crime. It’s a special kind of multi-channel quantizer that operates by transforming chords into other closely related chords without regard for an overall key. Essentially they tend to be chords that share one or two notes in common - but of course, a few transformations away and you can land on a chord that doesn’t share any notes from the one you started on.

Stages is triggering O&C via three unsynced LFOs of different speeds. I stumbled upon a timing pattern that triggered the right succession of transformations, and modes of transformation, to cause my note sequence to gradually work its way up and down through a huge range of chords in different registers.

All three notes of each chord are sent to nRings, while only one is sent to Tràigh to act as a lead. I used some additional self-patched LFOs from Stages to FM Tràigh and give it some vibrato (with some attenuation by hand) and to modulate the delay time on the Pittsburgh (effectively giving the nRings voice some vibrato as well).

Fireworks | Andrew Huang

SUTURE SOUND 2019-02-07 | Patch notes below. Hear the full album, "The Lyres In Trees": http://fanlink.to/lyres
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I was invited to compose this piece for an installation my friend Derin Emre was putting on at Arta Gallery in Toronto. The concept was to have a few artists score different videos of the lights around their city. Of all the clips Derin had I felt the most compelled by this one of fireworks going off by the lake.

My friend Jan Willem put together an application called Mideo (link below) which allows you to select colors to track in a video and converts their position on screen into MIDI note data. Loading the fireworks video into this, I sent the MIDI from my computer to two channels of Hermod, creating two streams of notes out of the one (splitting MIDI between multiple Hermod channels makes it cycle through them for each new note it receives).

The first note stream is quantized by Ornament & Crime to a scale of B C# D# F# G# A# and sent to nRings. nRings’ Brightness is modulated by the original sound from the fireworks video, which is sent to the modular and converted to more usable CV via a Pittsburgh Detect envelope follower.

The second note stream is quantized to a different scale of B C# E F# A# to sequence the bass voice, a sound I created with Plonk. I also removed the majority of the note triggers via Branches, so that the bass voice would sound much less often.

With the two-scale set up we thus have a bass that anchors our harmony on the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 6th degrees of a major scale, while the melodic flourishes from the other voice play pretty stuff that works on top of that (ie. a major scale with no 4th, which is the note I find the clash-iest).

Plonk goes through Z-DSP with the Valhalla card and nRings is given a bit of delay and reverb via uBurst.

This was multitracked to Ableton for mastering, and I edited out a few bass notes I didn't like - some that happened too rapidly in succession, and some where it was the same note repeated multiple times in a row.

Mideo: github.com/jwktje/mideo?fbclid=IwAR21vNYv-MyWaXTY3Yri6KTxi1Q0-BMuf7DFLHJMhq_GW-WwRaokSNq4ZK4

All Sound No Talk: Korg Volca Modular

SUTURE SOUND 2019-02-06 | Disclosure: A Korg employee gave me this synth at NAMM. They didn't ask me to make anything with it but hey it's a new synth and we're all curious how it sounds. This is a video of me using it for the first time, patched for about 20 minutes and trimmed it down to my favorite bits. Raw audio recorded direct with no post processing.
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TV & Video Games | Andrew Huang

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Rain II | Andrew Huang

SUTURE SOUND 2018-11-08 | A variation on the patch I posted yesterday. I randomized Eloquencer's sequence, randomized Rainmaker's settings, changed nRings' to sympathetic strings mode and fine tuned some of its other parameters, and this whole other piece arrived in a matter of minutes.
This has now been released has track 5 on my album "The Lyres In Trees": http://fanlink.to/lyres

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Rain I | Andrew Huang

SUTURE SOUND 2018-11-07 | Patch notes below. This is track 1 from my new album "The Lyres In Trees": http://fanlink.to/lyres
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Generative sequence coming from Eloquencer - about half the notes are set to skip or slightly vary in pitch about half the time. The sequence plucks nRings (4-note polyphony, modulated/inharmonic string mode) which runs through Rainmaker for delay, Jellysquasher for compression, and Morgasmatron for a bit of low pass filtering in the outro. Towards the end I also fade Rainmaker gradually to full wet.

CV coming from Noise Tools' slew output (attenuated by Quad VCA), Pamela's New Workout, and Dual S&H, to modulate the delay time and nRings' "brite" and "damp". In hindsight I should have attenuated further because the delay signal's pitch gets a little too warbly at times.

Final output brought into Ableton to pass through a FabFilter Pro-R reverb and to add a recording of rain outside my studio captured with a Zoom H6.

Endorphin.es BLCK_NOIR Sounds & Walkthrough

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In this video all sounds come from BLCK_NOIR with no post processing. Sequencing from Winter Modular's excellent Eloquencer.

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DrumBrute Impact: Pros, cons, comparison to original DrumBrute

SUTURE SOUND 2018-07-19 | Disclaimer: Arturia sent me this unit a couple weeks ago. They didn't pay me and they didn't ask me to make this video.

Cascades | Eurorack modular ambient

SUTURE SOUND 2018-03-29 | Circadian Rhythms clocking Z8000 sequence quantized by Brain Seed controlling Braids' pitch (PLUK mode) into MA-35 (low pass) into Streams (vactrol mode) into Clouds (default mode) and finally into Z-DSP with Halls of Valhalla card. Some parameters of MA-35, Braids and Clouds modulated by the Z8000 or Chance. Over the course of the piece I raise and lower MA-35's cutoff frequency, and sweep Streams' envelope from plucky to long and soft.

Akemie’s Cowbell

SUTURE SOUND 2018-02-25 | Early jam with a couple modules that were new to me. Generative melodies with Akemie’s Taiko on a sort of 808 cowbell-esque sound. Shapeshifter doing a weird bass thing. BIA for unpredictable kicks and Mutant Rimshot as an attempt at anchoring everything. Best part is probably all the atmosphere added by Rainmaker though I can’t remember which combo of voices it was processing.

Akemies Clouds

SUTURE SOUND 2018-02-21 | My Akemie's Taiko arrived with the pitch calibration slightly off but I ended up kind of liking it for this simple patch. Tuned hand drum sort of sound in this not-quite-major scale, thrown into Clouds for some pitch and space modulation.

Unsettled Bells // Eurorack patch

SUTURE SOUND 2018-02-06 | 🛎