ALAN & Friends
Channel: Dave Phillips
Date: 2019-02-13

A patch exploring Skrylar's Turing machine module with all of its expanders (Volts, Pulses, Vactrol). These modules create the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic elements that are routed to the audio synthesis and percussion modules. Some recently released modules are used in this patch, including the Edge WTFVCO, LabSeven's VCO-3340, the oh,peas! "quad quantenuverter" from computerscare, Bidoo's very nice REI reverb, and the VST Host module from the VCV development group. Most of the remaining components are familiar from my recent patches, but I've also recalled to duty the Autodafe drum modules and the Squinky Labs frequency shifter.

The Host module runs the Linux version of the Surge synthesizer plugin. Surge is loaded with an electric piano patch dynamically modified by Rack controls mapped to the plugin's filter cutoff frequency and FM depth parameters. As is typical of my recent patches, there's a fair lot of modulation going on here.

This patch also demonstrates the use of what I call my Little Machines. They include the following module "bundles" that have been designed for reuse in other patches:

Tempo control:    Clocked + Clock Divider(s)
Modulation core:  BPM LFO + Multiplier + 8vert
Final mix:        Mixer + Tact-1 + reverb (REI here)
Bass generator:   Woldemar + filter (Vortex) + EG (DGate + ADSR)

Performance requires no manual intervention. However, I suggest periodically changing the Turing machine's Length setting. The oh,peas! module is also rich with possibilities during performance.

As always, a bow from the waist in deepest thanks to all VCV Rack developers and all members of the Rack's excellent community of users.