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Earcandles (Rodney Berry) - All Hallows

from Æther Waves Vol. 4 by Æther Waves

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The patch is driven by the SEQ16 Sequencer and a Korg SQ-1 sequencer (converted into an AE module), as well as the Topograf and TRIQ16.

The first sound in the track is the Solina with its Chord-Variation parameter being slowly changed by a LFO, then fed through a low pass gate, triggered from the Topograf and also through a wave folder.

It is then joined by the Wavetable oscillator, controlled by the Korg SQ-1, set to only play selected steps so different notes can be added and pulled out on-the-fly. It is also fed through the Wasp filter and 2ENV and 2VCA modules.

A GRAINS module with the West-coast oscillator firmware goes through another low pass gate, triggered from the Topograf to take the role of a tuned bass drum.

The bell sound is made with another GRAINS module by looping the very last couple of samples of the Amen break and feeding it through an envelope and VCA.

The FM oscillator provides a sine-ish bass with the modulation depth swept by an envelope and is played by the SEQ16.

finally, a simple chord from the VCO and 2OSC/d oscillators is fed through the NILE filter and, because I'd now run out of envelopes, is gated using the Switchmatrix, gated by the TRIQ16. The filter is slowly swept by a LFO.

I was planning to use some LittleBits modules as well but could not get them to work happily in this patch.

Unfortunately, my Multi-FX has developed a nasty whistle sound that I need to track down, so, apart from some lo-fi delay from the Delay module, the stereo mix is recorded dry from the output of MIXCONSOLE.

In Audacity, I used a room reverb from a U-He VST plugin to give it some body and duplicated some sections with a frequency shifter and finally some hall reverb for the end part. This is the first time I've tried Audacity with its new real-time effects capability and, after several crashes, returned to the built-in ones (time to sit down with the Reaper tutorials).

In general, I've tried to keep close to my live sound as if I were performing, but I did need to chop out some bad bits and extend some too-short parts. The rhythms from the Topograf seemed to resist forming into a groove but the whole thing gets some legs before said legs fall off again. I was thinking not to do a drone piece this time and was a bit inspired by some of the endless one-chord jams of the '60s and '70s
(including a funky band rendition of Terry Riley's ""In C""). It began as a messy meditation on the ancient roots of Halloween, then it became what it became.

A blessed Beltane to you all! :)

More info:
wiki.aemodular.com/pmwiki.php/AeMusic/Earcandles

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from Æther Waves Vol. 4, released November 4, 2022

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