Grant Middleton master class – Dream Sequence
This patch was used for a new track, which was originally based on the Ashra piece 'Dream', from the Goettsching album 'Dream and Desire'.
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Output 1 should be left dry, while output 2 should drive a stereo delay set up with delay times 450 ms and 300 ms. (100 BPM on 1/4 note and 3/16 notes)
The knobs are assigned as follows: |
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The level and filter knobs are straightforward, as is the clock start/stop. The 'note-spread' knobs are interesting, however. These add an attenuated offset to the pitch of the oscillator from NoteSeqA2 and NoteSeqA3. Under normal circumstances, this would sound pretty horrible as notes would be sounding between semitones, etc. However, the outputs of ControlMixer4 and ControlMixer3 are fed into KeyQuantisers set to the first five notes of the key of E major. This means that only those notes (over any number of octaves) will sound. When the note-spread knobs are fully anti-clockwise, the two oscillators sound on the root note (selected by Keyboard1 and KeyQuant3). I've restricted the number of notes you can select, as I was driving this from the bass pedal unit, and I'm not that confident with it ! When turned fully clockwise, the full range of values in NoteSeqA2 and A3 are passed to their respective channels. The EventSequencer modules provide trigger patterns for the three channels.
Note that while the trigger sequences are all 16 steps long, NoteSeqA2 is 15, while NoteSeqA3 is 13. This provides a constantly shifting set of notes being triggered on each beat.
By playing different keys on the keyboard (or bass pedals !) you can select between background sequences in the key of E Major, F# minor, A major and B major. Don't be afraid to mess about with the notes in the KeyQuantiser modules. If everything sounds too sweet and happy, you might like to punch in the notes of the E minor scale instead. But I like it this way - it sort of puts me in mind of the 'prettier' moments from Kraftwerk or Peter Baumann.