Hey everyone!

I thought that in the middle of all this discussion, you'd appreciate
some patches for a change!  ;-)  So, here's 5 of my most recent:

BoardsPad1 - sounds like something from Boards Of Canada.  Amazingly low
DSP usage, so you can get 7 note polyphony out of a MicroModular!  Knob
1 controls keyboard-ish to smooth pad, knob 2 controls harshness of
sound, knob 3 controls LFO stuff to make it almost Vangelis like, and
knob 4 controls amount of detune overall between different notes
playing.  I've deliberately detuned the whole sound a bit, so that it
sounds out of tune (but in a nice way) like a lot of Boards Of Canada
stuff.

OldskoolStab2 - the second version of a patch which I haven't touched
for a while due to some dodgy error in it (some problem with the morph
assignment!?).  Anyway, this version is totally fixed, and sounds a lot
better than the original did anyway.  It's like a chord stab from a rave
tune.  So, knob 1 does filter cutoff, knob 2 does resonance, knob 3
alters the tuning of the minor third so that you can make this into a
lot of other chords - anything from a major third to a minor third, to a
fourth, to a ninth (I think that's right anyway - just changes the chord
it plays).  Velocity also controls filter stuff and how out of tune the
oscillators are with each other... fun patch!  :-)

Phoket - one of my oldest patches that I never did anything with.  Now
I've sorted it out to be a really rude jungle bass sound (a bit like
some used by Photek a while back). If you set knobs 1-4 to zero, that's
what I originally wanted it to sound like, but the settings I've saved
it with give maximum rudeness. Just mess with knobs 1-4 and you'll get
quite a palette of nasty jungle / drum n bass bass sounds out of it.

C64 Maj-Min Arp: Sounds just like an arp from an old Commodore 64
computer game.  Knob 1 controls major / minor (an anything inbetween),
knob 2 controls pulse width speed change, knob 3 controls arp speed.
Arps are controlled by a square wave LFO instead of a clock gen, as this
allowed me to alter the speed of the arp.  Nice little trick I think!
Also, this patch uses the "Warmth Trick" to get rid of some of that Nord
harshness and get a less-defined C64 SID chip sound.  Enjoy!

SuperStretch: Mad stretching effect (a bit like a flanger sometimes)
which adds a kinda never-ending elastic sounding twang to sounds from
the audio inputs.  I saw Roni Size doing a set with Breakbeat Era once,
and he had some effect like this - it appears several times on the
Breakbeat Era album (used on the drums).  Knobs 1-3 do interesting
things - play with them!  ;-)


FYI: As usual, all my patches are configured to be controlled by my AN1x
(knobs 1-8 on the AN1x making up for my lack of knobs on my Micro
Modular) so if you have an AN1x as your controller, you are in luck!
I've obviously set it up for people with full-blown Modulars as well, so
knobs 1-8 tend to be the ones that "do stuff" with my patches if
anything is going to.


So, at this point, allow me to shamelessly plug my website
(www.mu-sly.co.uk) which has a small collection of patches (these new
ones will be up there next week, but you guys get them first), over
100Mb of breakbeats to download, and even some music I've written
(gasp!).  There's a few articles I've written which could kill off 10
minutes or so, and you never know, you might even like my music (it's
kinda intelligent dance music, chillout, ruff jungle, dub reggae...
allsorts!  I'd recommend "Maybe It Grows" and "Think Nice Thoughts" as a
starting point...)

I hope you like my patches - any feedback is gratefully received!

Cheers,

~Dave

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