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Critical Mass

from Dark Matter by Probbie

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A Generative piece, under the ‘guidance’ of the Eloquencer sequencer.

Recorded live, directly to a stereo master, with no edits or overdubs. (Can’t “fix it in the mix”!).

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Bubbles (black, lane A)
All three bands of Sisters pinged, into Mimeophon. Sisters FM and Span modulated by 0chd.

Plonks (pink, lane B)
Surface via Mimeophon, Colour modulated by 0chd. Surface Model and Tone modulated by 0chd.

Bass (blue, lane C)
Ts-L PWM via Disting EX K8 VCF, modulated by pulse output from Ts-L via Shades 2. VCF frequency modulated by PWM output from Ts-L, whose CV is modulated by 0chd. VCF is further modulated by Twin Waves 1 sine at 5th down, which is modulated by 0chd.

Discord (purple, lane D)
Ts-L triangle and Plaits into Disting EX A2 Multiplier, via A-142-2 EG/VCA.

Rasp (grey, lane E)
Cursus Iteritas in Fourier mode. Center modulated by 0chd. Envelope from Quadra and Quad VCA.

Chords (yellow, lane F)
Plaits in chord mode via Qpas, whose frequency and Radiate L are modulated by two outputs from 0chd. Envelope provided by Quadra into Qpas Level.

Strings (white, lane G)
Chainsaw whose shape is modulated by 0chd. Envelope provided by Quadra/Quad VCA.

Noises (red, lane H)
Arbhar playing various acoustic recordings. Scan from 0chd. Envelope provided by A-142-2 EG/VCA.

Sequenced by Eloquencer in E Phrygian. Gate probability modulated by 0chd via Shades.
Cloud reverb effect from Strymon BigSky added via the mixing desk Aux.

Audio captured live via Yamaha MG12XU USB into Audacity as a Stereo master (no overdubbing, post mixing or processing apart from some limiting). Monitored on Yamaha HS8's.

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from Dark Matter, released August 16, 2021

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Probbie England, UK

The artist Probbie is Paul Williams, born and living in Hertfordshire, U.K.
Paul has held a keen interest in electronic music and synthesisers in particular from childhood, and built his first home-made synthesiser in 1973. Having abandoned the hobby in the digital 1980s, returned with new enthusiasm in 2017 to embrace Eurorack modular synthesisers. ... more

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