After the last few Praxis Sessions, I wanted to include samples within this modular/ambient/minimalist work I’ve been doing. I’ve found a module that lets me play WAV files within VCV rack and trigger these as if it was an oscillator. I used my previous Thames field recording sounds for this praxis.
The top left two modules are granular samplers and I decided to keep one grain for the first sound of waves from the Thames and the second sample to have 8 and for it to randomly decide when the loop ends which one to play. I fed this into the mixer module which had reverb and delay on auxiliary sends.
I also had a clock generator running into a sequencer that was sent into a quantizer that played notes into a scale. This was sent to my oscillator and gave it a scale arpeggiated format. This then later had LFO modulation for its Frequency and Timbre. I also had another FM synth called Dexter which I previously used and I found it very nice sounding. I had this triggered by an LFO as well as changing the filter on it and sending it to my mixer and then a mastering module and finally to audio out.
I’ve really happy with this outcome, now I know that I can load samples into this I think it’s time to create generative patches with samples and synth sounds. Perhaps one with just samples first? and one with both at an advanced level.
Then I need to make some different tape loop styles and try putting everything into my cassette 4 track.
Then create another tape loop for my walkman and play both together and see what happens. Perhaps try the technique from Steve Reich Come out piece and Brain Eno’s generative aspect of music for airports.