I am now in the process of building a effects/fooger rack. I bought a Hosea tilting rack and TRS patch bay with front switches for normalization. Most of the plugs will not be normalized. I will be plugging in my M3 and all of its in and outs and all the foogers. I actually bought 2 Hosea, 48 input bays so I hope that is going to be sufficient. I have some other pedals which I hope to all power with Vodoo Labs along with the foogers. I will also have an Eventide Ecclipse and and old Lexicon effects unit on board. Also MIDI to CV and MIDI to gate controllers. What I am hoping to create is an integrated system that combines digial and analogue elements.
I may also look for a goot analogue mixer in the future.
Eventually I will add a modular and complete a studio that will give me best of both worlds. Of course, a power Mac with Volta would be nice and its not out of the question for very long term, funds are limited.
So what do I plan on doing with all this. Shaping sound. I have been for a time now a composer of electro-acoustic/experimental/art music. It facinates me because it steps away from traditional conceptiosn of music and yet seeks to organize sound into some unfied whole in a composition.
What I often like to do is take a theme, some sound idea that I have, a concept, and shape sound to try to achieve something transcendent of the individual sounds themselves much in the way a tradional composition does this but with none of the limits of traditional music.
Foogers are an easy way for me to do this. The whole CV concept behind them creates avenues of creative possibltiies that otherwise would not be possible with stomp box pedals. While eventually as I said, I will get a modular but for now, the uses of CVs, expecially with the CP-251, will open up new avenues of sound.
The Lexicon and the Eventide will also provide an interesting mix. For one, I can use the Lexicon and Eventide to apply a lush digital reverb to the final mix. But what is also initeresting is, for example, using the Eventide for pitch shifting and placing that into the Fooger delay feedback loop. The controllers on M3 can also feed MIDI onto the Lexicon or even the foogers with MIDI to CV to create sonic mahem that even a MURF/delay combo can’t. By timing the delay on the Eventide and the pitch shift, and also using the Ring Modulator, many intersting harmonic and time based effects are possible. Sounds that any single unit can produce.
I also want to place the M3 granuator in feedback loop of the delay to create a morphing delay from clean to noise.
Who knows what is possible.
