John The Revelator - Supercellular
Channel: Dave Phillips
Date: 2021-02-01

Signal processing a solo vocal with two Supercell modules from the Grayscale plugin for VCV Rack. Supercell is an expansion of the firmware for the Clouds granular effects processor created by Mutable Instruments.

Two modes of operation are deployed, the Spectral Madness mode from the original firmware and the Spectral Clouds mode from the Kammerl extensions. Modulation is extensive and derives from the BPM LFO and the outpput from the pitch quantizers. At the mixer level global reverb is provided by the Valley Audio Plateau module. Channel panning is controlled by a pair of LFOs from the DHE Modules plugin. Only the Supercell output is panned, the unprocessed vocal remains in the center of the mix. No other processing is applied in the signal chain.

The pitch sequences are created by combining a random gates generator, a sample & hold unit, a dual attenuverter, and two pitch quantizers. Rather than creating a series of harmonic changes with the quantizers I chose to apply an 8Face module to the S&H unit to step through a sequence of the unit's four noise source colors (white, blue, pink, red) to expand and contract the range of the pitch randomization.

Recorded with ecasound, edited with mhwaveedit.

Players in the patch:

Autodafe - 1x8 Mult
Bogaudio - S&H
DHE Modules - Blossom, Xycloid
Frozen Wasteland - BPM LFO
Grayscale - Supercell
HetrickCV - Random Gates
Impromptu Modular - Clocked, Tact-1
JW-Modules - Quantizer
NYSTHI - Complex Simpler, 4DCB
RJModules - Buttons
Skrylar - JACK Audio 4x4
Squinky Labs - Form, ExFor
Stoermelder - 8Face, uMap
Synthkit - Clock Divider
Valley Audio - Plateau
VCV - 8vert
Wiqid Anomalies - 2at Dual Attenuverter

Song: John The Revelator, sung by dp, recorded with Ardour a long time ago.

Best regards to all members of the VCV Rack community. Shantih.

Dave Phillips
31 January 2021