We recently created a quick, 12 second video for the MP-201 Multi-Pedal.
Click here to watch…
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=43764000
Moog Guru, Amos Gaynes created the soundtrack and gives us a behind the scenes glimpse at how he did it.
The melodic arpeggio that runs from beginning to end is a Little Phatty running through a MuRF and an MF-104 Analog Delay.
The MuRF pattern was synchronized to Ableton Live’s MIDI clock using the MP-201 Multi-Pedal. Here’s how to do it:
Set up a MP-201 channel to be a square wave LFO. Set LFO Sync = MIDI and pick whatever clock divisions you want.
Next, connect a patch cable to the analog output of the MP-201 channel you are working with, and connect the other end of the cable to the TAP/STEP input jack on the MuRF. You want to use STEP mode, which means either plugging the patch cable halfway into the tap/step jack, or using the MuRF Step Adaptor on this end of the patch cable. Now, each pulse of the MP-201 LFO will advance the MuRF pattern by one step.
Connect a MIDI output (usb or DIN) from your computer to the MP-201 and set your sequencer to send MIDI Sync… now when you hit Play in your sequence, the MP-201 LFO will lock to your MIDI tempo and the MuRF will step along with the LFO.
The bass line is the simplest part; it’s straight Little Phatty presets with no effects. The patch used was Taurus Bass 2.
The melodic lead sound was played live on the Little Phatty, running into an MF-103 Phaser and the MF-104 Delay. The Multi-Pedal was used as an expression pedal to tweak the MF-103 Phaser Sweep and Resonance controls in realtime.
Finally, the crazy sound effects layer. This was created using a chain of Moogerfoogers, all being modulated by different LFOs from the Multi-Pedal. The original sound source was an MF-101 lowpass filter with the resonance boosted to self-oscillation.
This signal was then sent to an MF-102 Ring Modulator, and then the output from the Ring Modulator was sent to an MF-103 phaser. The MP-201 was sending independent analog LFOs to the MF-101 cutoff frequency, the MF-102 carrier frequency, and the MF-103 Sweep input; all three of these LFOs were being controlled simultaneously from the MP-201 foot pedal. This left my hands free to tweak Moogerfooger knobs at the same time, further increasing the sonic mayhem.
