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Release Date: 2012-12-04Label: Laser Palace
Strange Modes is a Wiard Synthesizer centric release. All sounds were created electronically with Wiard System 300 / 1200 or Malekko/Wiard Modules.Notes:
Track 1:
Anti and Unkle OSC, Borg-1, Noisering, VCA and 2 Envelators.
Track 2:
300 series, omni filter, waveform city, classic vco, dual envelator, borg filters, wogglebug, sequantizer
euro: anti oscillator, unkle oscillator, envelator, boogie filter, borg 1, noisering, JAG
Track 3:
The track opens and ends with tones/ noise from the Noise Ring. The first "melody" is created by running the Noise Ring through a quantiser bank on a Miniwave. The first main sequence uses the filter emulation bank on the Waveform city, using a sequantizer to assign particular tones to particular notes. The lead uses multitracked versions of the melody from a Boogie filter configured in various different ways. The outro belle sequence is a simple linear FM patch.
Classic VCOs, Waveform Cities, Miniwave, Sequantizers, Envelators, Boogie, Borg 1 and Omni filters, Noise Ring, Wogglebug, Mixolators, MXR Pitch Transposer, MXR Flanger, Mooger Fooger Phaser, ARTs Acoustic, Aether, Vallhala Reverbs, PSP Delays, Sequenced and recorded with Cubase SX3.
Track 4:
The sound is mostly Wiard 300, a Noise Ring (for clock), a bugbrand CTL-1 touchplate/sequencer, an Ian Fritz Jerkster, and a diy Buchla 258 VCO. it's very much a wiard song though - apart from the 258 and jerkster, everything you hear is wiard.
Track 5:
Recorded in one take using three Wiard 300 Modules.
Track 6:
Performed live on an original six module 300 system.
Track 7:
I had a few variations with this patch. Mostly changed Borg and Anti settings along with Envelator speeds/settings.
1st the NoiseRing is sort of the clock master but it's Chance input is getting hit by the 2nd envelator's negative output causing the speed variances.
I was using the Borgs in various ways as LPG's as well as utlizing infrasonic and high pass settings.
I have the Noisering sending an attenuated channel 1 to the Y input on the JAG. Jag's X input is being fed an envelator that also has its negative envelope CVing the Xmix which is receiving audio from the Mayhem output of the Anti-Oscillator via the Borg 2's 1st input as well as the RingMod out from the WoggleBug.
The Anti's Tri output is feeding the Borg 1 that goes to main output channel as well as the 2nd input on the Borg 2.
The switch is being hit with stepped out from the Wogglebug as well as an output from the JAG. This feeds the 1v/oct on the Anti.
The Woggle receives clock from the Noisering and is being fed Borg 's 2nd output into the RingMod ext in.
The Xmix's negative output also feeds back into the Borg 1's 2nd input to complete the audio chain as a continuous patchloop.
Smooth Woggle VCO is hitting Anti's Exponential input while the Linear gets occasional bursts from the Noisering's 2nd output. The Envelators, JAG and Woggle CVs hit various CV/Key inputs on the Borgs and I use 2nd Switch channel to toggle between envelopes and voltages.
Track 8:
Malekko/Wiard - Anti-Oscillator, Oscillator, Borg FM, Wavefolder & LPG
Track 9:
This track was made with a Wiard system. Audio sources were a Waveform City and a miniwave. CV sources from two Wiard noiserings. Some bandpass filtering by a dual Borg filters. A short loop was recorded onto computer. This loop was layered, with some copies transposed up and down very slightly. A small amount of reverb was added to the final recording.
Track 11:
All 300 series modules are used in this patch. The basics: wogglebug is clocking the sequantizer which is sending one 1v/oct to two wfc's and a classic vco. There is much more going on than meets the eye, albeit very subtly. I wanted something dark, dreamy and murky. I think I accomplished it on this track.
Track 14:
A total rerecording of a piece I wrote for an album ages ago, all Wiard, although I used my DIY fonik attenuvertor mixer for some scaling (this thing is essential, used in every patch)
Track 15:
The patch for All Wiard Jingle was a very simple one. Even though it is a rather typical synth voice the modules involved were somewhat atypical.
For the audio path a Woggle Bug was used as sound source and a Boogie Filter to shape its timbre. At the end of the voice a Borg in VCA mode was applied to overall amplitude control.
The CV path was centred around the Noise Ring which controlled any change in pitch and timbre of both the Woggle Bug and the Boogie. At the time the Noise Ring’s clock out opened the Borg (no envelope generator involved) while the clock’s speed is controlled by the
Noise Ring’s own feedback path and a Joy Stick. A JAG was involved but only as sort of a clock divider.
Modules involved: Woggle Bug (DIY); Boogie Filter (Malekko); Borg Filter (1213); Noise
Ring (1210); JAG (1211); Joy Stick (1209).
Track 16:
300 Series - Waveform City, Dual Envelator, Borg Filters, Dual Mixolator, Wogglebug, Sequantizer.
1200 Series (Frac) - Noise Ring
Track 17:
3 x Wiard Noisering
2 x Wiard Boogie
4 x Wiard Borg
1 x Wiard JAG
1 x Wiard Joystick
All are bananafied 1200 series, frac rack format (Joystick + 2 Borgs repanelled by Metalbox from a Wiard JoyRider)
No other modules or machines were used, neither for cv nor sound. The track was recorded in one take onto 6 tracks in a DAW, and slightly edited with track timing kept. Mixing, panning, compression and some EQ were done, and a reverb was used for two of the tracks.
I started my collection of Wiard modules when I got a few of them bundled with some used Bugbrand modules I bought. The special sound of the Borg and Boogie thrilled me, and the quirky patterns generated by the Noisering really appealed to my love of generative structures. Since then I have acquired a few more, including the JAG mapping engine, and I often use them to complement the sound of my large Bugbrand modular. In this track I use one Noisering as the main gestural generator, and two more as combined oscillators... more
Track 19:
2 primary voices. One is Malekko Wiard
Oscillator acting as modulation oscillator of Waveform City in bank
12. Sync lightly manipulated from smooth audio output from Woggle Bug.
Pitch is lightly vibratoed by Woggle CV out. Corners of JAG are
dedicated to controlling certain parameters. WFC out goes to Livewire
Frequensteiner filter in HP mode to give saturation and self
oscillation. This goes to Boogie filter which then goes to 4 VCAs
which then goes into a Mixolator module. The four VCAs are controlled
by another JAG.
The other main voice is 2 Anti Oscillators, going into a Borg filter.
The droning bass comes from a Livewire Dalek Modulator being
controlled by a Dual Cyclotron, going into a Bugbrand Drive circuit.
Sequencing is from 2 Sequantizers (they come alive in pairs!), 2
Binary Zones, Dual Envelator, Wogglebug.
No effects or post processing. Recorded live in one take.