#shorts #cinematic #filmmusic #synthwave
This electronic cinematic chase film music was made using Todd Barton's ideas about complex FM to create a percussive sequence. I am sequencing the attack and decay of two different waves that are creating FM, one modulating the other. I have further sequenced the hard sync of the Moog Grandmother to create more percussion, and the Buchla 208c Easel Command adds another layer of randomly accented electronic percussive sounds, like a not quite Buchla bongo. The ARP-2600 provides the melodic content.
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Patch Notes:
Eurorack:
Intellijel Dixie II oscillator is the main percussive voice. I'm using an Intellijel Quadrax with the top two channels in bipolar cycle mode. The first channel is going to the FM input of the Dixie II. The second channel is routed into the first channel and effecting the Rise knob, which in this case is effecting the speed of channel 1's oscillations. Further, I have added a CV sequence from the Stillson Hammer sequencer to effect the Rise knob of channel 2, which changes its speed. So we have two layers of oscillations changing the FM tone. Dixie II sine audio out to Make Noise Optomix, being struck by Stillson Hammer gates, with a parallel output to a Make Noise Echophon with its pitch being sequenced by another CV sequence of the Stillson Hammer. Audio out from the Echophon runs to another channel of the Optomix to have some dynamic control over the parallel effects.
Buchla 208c Easel Command:
Audio to Erbeverb, 4ms Tapographic Delay, X-Pan, Boss RC-5 looper pedal, Eventide H9.
Sequential voltage to pitch
Envelope Generator to low pass gates
Random voltage to timbre, modulation, sequencer steps, and sustain
Moog Grandmother
Modulation Oscillator tuned to keyboard and routed to Noise input for three oscillators
Oscillator 2 receiving pitch CV from Moog DFAM and set to hard sync, creating overtone percussion.
ARP-2600
Triangle wave from oscillator 2, sawtooth wave from oscillator 1. Receiving clock from DFAM. Sample and Hold out to VCF, modulating the filter frequency at random intervals.