It’s Sunday, time for an ambient jam! Things have changed a bit in the gear department. I decided to part with my Moog Grandmother. While I do love the sound of that synth, it just didn’t seem practical for the type of music I’m making. It took up a large section of the small table I have to work on. I found myself liking the sound of the smaller keyboard-less Mother 32 just as much and its patching options are more useful to me in my setup that is trending toward more modular components.

In place of the Grandmother, I now have a second Mother 32. Additionally, I picked up a used Eurorack case and a few more modules. Today’s jam is a sort-of generative piece that uses one new module, the Qu-Bit Bloom. It’s a so called “fractal sequencer” that is intriguing to the engineering part of my brain.

Patch Notes

Voices: Mother 32 x 2

Bloom sequencer drives both Mother 32 synths.

* Bloom OUT 1 -> M32-1 VCO 1V/OCT

* Bloom GATE 1 -> M32-1 GATE

* Bloom OUT 2 -> M32-2 VCO 1V/OCT

* Bloom GATE 2 -> M32 GATE

* Chaos X -> MISO -> Bloom ROOT CV

* M32-2 GATE -> EG TRIG

* Chaos Z -> EG CV

* EG OUT -> A-132 CV

* A-132 SIG OUT -> M32-2 EXT AUDIO

* M32-2 VCO PULSE -> A-132 SIG IN

The Tools

All my current 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 Subharmonicon

* Moog Mother 32 (2)

* Moog DFAM

* Eurorack

* Doepfer LC9 case

* Doepfer A-145-4 LFO

* Doepfer A-160-2 Clock Divider

* Doepfer A-151 Seq Switch

* Doepfer A-132 VCA

* Doepfer A-148 S&H

* Doepfer A-156 Quantizer

* Zlob Chaos

* Zlob Entropy

* Super Synthesis EG Envelope

* Eowave Zone B.F. LFO

* Xodes LB5 Logic

* Tiptop Audio MISO

* ZeroScope Oscilloscope

* Qu-Bit Bloom

* WMD/SSF Atten (2)

* After Later Audio Dice

* 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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