Here’s a mellow jam for a kind of dreary Sunday afternoon. We’ve got light rain off and on, which I won’t complain about - we definitely need it. This jam has a gentle lounge music sort of vibe to it. The DFAM plucks the bass while the Subharmonicon and Mother 32 play their melodies. Get your headphones on, maybe have a cup of coffee or tea, then sit back and chill for a bit.

Patch Notes

Voices: Mother 32 (M32), Subharmonicon (SH), DFAM

Grandmother is just providing the clock in this one.

* GM CLOCK OUT -> A-160-2 CLOCK IN

* DFAM VCF EG -> VCA CV

* A-160-2 (/2) -> DFAM CLOCK IN

* CHAOS X -> MISO -> DFAM VCF MOD

* CHAOS Z -> MISO -> SH CUTOFF

* A-145-4 SQUARE WAVE -> SH RHYTHM 1

* A-145-4 SQUARE WAVE -> SH RHYTHM 2

* A-160-2 (/4) -> SH CLOCK IN

* SH CLOCK OUT -> M32 TEMPO

* M32 GATE -> EG TRIG

* EG OUT -> A-132 CV

* M32 VCO PULSE -> A-132 SIG IN

* A-132 SIG OUT -> M32 EXT AUDIO

The Tools

All my gear is below. Not everything is necessarily used for each recording. I record live to my HS6 recorder. I have a DAW-less setup, although I do use GarageBand for normalization and creating a shareable audio file.

* Moog Grandmother

* Moog Subharmonicon

* Moog Mother 32

* Moog DFAM

* Eurorack

* Doepfer A-145-4 LFO

* Doepfer A-160-2 Clock Divider

* Doepfer A-151 Seq Switch

* Doepfer A-132 VCA

* Zlob Chaos

* Zlob Entropy

* Super Synthesis EG Envelope

* Eowave Zone B.F. LFO

* Xodes LB5 Logic

* Tiptop Audio MISO

* Zoom MS-70CDR Effects Pedal

* Eventide Blackhole Reverb Pedal

* Eventide Ultratap Delay Pedal

* Mackie Mix8 mixer

* Zoom HS6 recorder

* GarageBand (grudgingly)

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