Happy Sunday! Here we are at ambient jam number 40. Wow, I can’t believe it! I might just make it for a full year of weekly recordings. No pressure on myself. I’ll keep doing the recordings as long as it brings joy and I have the time. Thanks to those of who have stuck around so far and offered encouragement.

We made it through a brutal ice storm this week. The Austin area looks like a war zone with all the tree limbs down. A lot of people have been without power for over 3 days now. Fortunately, our power held up. After a coating of up to 2 inches of ice just 3 days ago, the sun is shining today and the weather is mildly warm - just beautiful. I’ll be enjoying it while it is here, remembering to never take it for granted.

Patch Notes

Voices: Grandmother (GM), Subharmonicon (SH), DFAM

* Zone B.F. stepped random LFO -> GM CLOCK IN

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

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

* A-160-2 (/4) -> DFAM ADV/CLOCK

* Chaos Z -> MISO -> GM CUTOFF IN

* GM FILTER OUT -> A-132 SIG IN

* A-132 SIG OUT -> GM VCA IN

* EG OUT -> A-132 CV

* GM GATE OUT -> EG TRIG

* DFAM PITCH -> SH 1-2 FM AMT

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

* ZeroScope Oscilloscope

* 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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