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#89 got a little bit hurt a while ago and fell out of the swing of things. fully healed and resuming posting now

#88 the sq-64 makes the best arpeggiator. i feel like i can get so much out of a single pattern with transpose mode.
i’ve realized that if you can sequence tonal changes to your patch, it makes it so much more interesting. here i’m using the 8th drum track to manipulate the delay length

#87 sub-oscillators are good. transposing melody is good. i missed distortion. i feel like i made one or two good patches without it and decided i was done. that was a mistake. still trying to figure out how to blend my sub-osc better. it feels like it is its own instrument rn #eurorack #synthsky

#86 extra squeeky. the “hihat” here was created by the pico bbd which upsettingly doesn’t have a low pass filter and is really only good as a sound source, but at least it does that well. i think i’m always going to start tuning from the start because if i don’t i never get around to it

#85 happened upon rave stabs on accident. is this how i chord?

i intend to tune this up and sync it properly using a daw in my next post

#84 tremolo on tremolo + tremolo. this patch has two sounds, but the one that’s doing the “wub“ is the important one. both l+r channels share an oscillator, but it’s shifting left and right both channels have their own oscillators, but they are tremoloed in sync. then there is a master tremolo

#83 i factory reset my sq-64 when i was trying to get it to work with my computer and now it’s acting so much cooler. i think i enabled quantization a while ago, but forgot? anyway, this opens up exciting new possibilities for humanization./ still trying to figure out where my daw fits (not here)

#82 alright, so now i'm creating the midi sequences in live, recording those clips from session view into arrangement view, playing the midi while recording video with my phone and audio with live, and finally recombining the video and audio in video editing software. i also got stems!

#81 everything's connected. here's the first patch of the new setup. i don't like how i'm recording it all in the daw right now. i would like some video of the synth to go along with it. probably going to need to figure out video editing next. now that I think about it, a webcam would work well...

if all the pulse highs are the same duration, my mind immediately goes to pulsar synthesis. you’re got a really nice pulse train now

just spent about 5 hours trying to get my sq-64 to take midi signals from my daw. for posterity, i was using macos 15.3 and the solution was to open “midi studio” and delete all the other midi devices that were cached

does anybody use anodized aluminum as their “trademark module style”? so many color options. could be unique looking and easy to do at home

putting the jacks at separate corners would probably help if you decide to just remove it

bucket brigade delays have an inherent low pass built in so i’d been hesitant to do anything stereo with it before, but if it’s a bass that hardly matters

#80
≈80 minutes is a lot of minutes. i’m gonna be slowing down my posting to about half and seeing if i can get higher quality results. it will likely enable me to connect my daw to the whole setup.
this patch uses the delay to create a stereo effect where the “bounce” is heard in the left ear

#79 it’s wild how much having a mono signal widens the feeling of a sound. i was just trying to get more dry signal, but i found something more important. also, turing machine into noise decay env time = pretty convincing brush snares. the way that some hits sound cut short is just so good

#78 more dj inspired drops. i basically sent a cv to several different effects so that i could free up my hands to turn other knobs. this cv was gated by a switch so that i could get out of that “mode” quickly and continue on, but honestly, it sounds so much better with the pause #eurorack

how has the button size been? looks a little small for live use, but i don’t have it in front of me to try

#77 been watching too many dj shorts on youtube. pretend that the pattern that comes after this sick rising bpm transition was good, how sick would this be? i also need to get faster on my sq-64 controls, i have in depth technical knowledge, but not performing experience

if you ever end up trying to learn it more thoroughly, let me know. i have a lot of info not included in the manual in my head at this point

i’m using an sq-64! super steep learning curve. i’m still figuring it out. i only got it because it was super cheap at the time. i really want a keystep pro and i will probably get my hands on one at some point. but i want to try to hook up my sq-64 to a daw first to see if i really need a diff seq

*#76 gah

#75 well, this patch involved starting with a bass, then a lead then drums, so i definitely don’t think there is a proper order to this process for me. i didn’t use any distortion in this patch… i’m starting to wonder if i’m going about my sound design all wrong now #synthsky #eurorack

guitar pedal distortion is a must for me. i was originally working with a daw when i noticed that a distortion pedal sim would turn just about any synth into a lead guitar. super useful effect

#75 “lullaby for a forgotten bee”
there’s been too much energy in my patches. they need to be slowed way down, and i need to focus on quality instrument patching with subtle vibrato and tremolo. distortion means a lot to me, but it’s not everything #synthsky #eurorack

make the hold longer? also, make the led blink when you’ve held for long enough

more board space!

#74 i’m assuming everyone already knows this, but working in the order of drums -> bass -> lead is pretty good. two neat things about this patch are the lead getting its low end cut off by an envelope tracker on the bass so that there is always low end and the use of delay feedback as a riser

#73 upsettingly, there’s nothing much new about the patch itself. i have, however, started to realize that if i don’t like what i’ve sequenced, i’m free to start over using the same patch. much easier to go “drums -> bass line -> melody” after everything is set up and ready to be played