Daydreaming at the Snow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPbc31OZ4iA
Thought some of you might want to hear it.
Enjoy,
EricK
Wow. I’m the 2nd customer to listen/watch on YouTube.
I like-eee. Didn’t know it snowed down by you.
So is it a just a single stage 8 step sequence at the core of it? Is there a transpose footswitch on that thing or just a pot to transpose smoothly at CV scale?
In any case, I zoned out while watching and somehow imagined that I was watching snow on the TV. Yeah yeah, you young whippersnappers don’t know what that is [snow on TV]. Back when I was a kid, there was no TV after midnight on most stations; the last thing you saw was the National Anthem concluding “…our programming day”
Anyway nice job. I’d say there was something Philip Glass about it but I’m not going to.
I’m shortly going to post a .com Q119 vs. Doepfer Dark Time thread… counting on you for alot of input. (may be too early as they are brandy new but…)
Very nice.
What is that sequenced with?
His fancy Synth.com Q119… what else? http://www.synthesizers.com/q119.html
But he gets all sorts of depth via Delay and Phaser.
Thanks guys.
Its almost wierd because if my neighbor saw that video they would probably think I have a camera set up spying on them. lolol.
At this stage, because I lack envgens and vcas, pretty much what Im working with the most is sequencing pitches.
The Q119 is going to the Voyager, Voyager to the delay and the delay to the phaser. At the end the Taurus kicks in and I screwed that up but I was more interested in the snow.
Transposition comes in the classic way, just hit a different key on the keyboard and it all transposes up. I think fine tuning really comes in handy here. I am not at the stage where I use precise tunings for sequences because I don’t have a mechanical tuner.
It does have a jack where you can add cv’s to the output but I haven’t really messed with that too much at this point. I just got it in Nov.
This was I think the first of the snow that came around the south, earlier this season.
Glad you enjoyed. I like it because the rate of snow flakes with the sequence.
The thing that Im trying to figure out about sequences is How to do sequences that aren’t just repetetive? I guess its all about the 960s and having a few of them and enough destinations to work with.
Thanks again for the feedback.
Edit: It was one of John L Rice’s videos where I learned the benefits of delaying the sequence. His stuff is great!
You have 3 channels of voltage stores on the Q-119. Since you don’t have trigger busses, you use a Q-149 or Q-962 to switch between them. Each one is set to different voltages. If you have a quantizer, you can then easily change each ones outputs to maj, minor, aug, etc. You can use the pitch in to transpose entire lines or if you time it, individulal notes. You can also use a row to control an external LFO and feed it to the timing input (ext clock) and change the timing of the sequence. There is alot you can do with the Q-119 to keep it from getting repetitive and boring live.
I’ll have to upload some of the stuff I’ve done experimenting with the Q-119.
I didn’t know you could use a 962 with a 119. Interesting!
Great suggestions, Thanks very much.
Patch the done out to the 962 shift in and it will step through like you were in 1x24 mode. But run it backwards and it can do some really cool stuff.
If the Q119 acts like a 960 does, it’s also possible to use it as a VCO.
Plug the output of a row into an audio amp and dial up the stages to change the waveform.
If the clock oscillator tracks 1 volt per octave CV inputs (like a 960 does), you can use it as a VCO too.
Thats definately worth a try, but I want to say that the 119 won’t do that. THe specs say 2-200Hz though.
Here are some tricks with the Q-119
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r11dWZfvgT8
Also, watch this one.