Counterpart from Dark Matter by Probbie

A ‘pendulum’ melody is the centrepiece, decorated by two arpeggios of differing length, either side of the stereo field.
A second melody is added; a delayed version of the main melody, the two producing a counterpoint effect.
A strong deep bass sound and some ‘real’ percussion from Disting EX complete the picture.

Recorded live, directly to a stereo master, with no edits or overdubs apart from some limiting in post. (Can’t “fix it in the mix”!).

This piece was premiered on the Puls8 Radio YouTube channel on June 21st 2021.

PATCH DETAILS:

Arp 1 (pink, lane A)
Surface via Qpas, whose Freq1 is controlled from Tetrapad 4, which also modifies Qpas Level via ATNV to keep the level constant. 2WAY Switch allows Arp1 to use the same pitch CV as Arp2.

Melody (purple, lane B)
Plaits in two-operator FM mode via Mimeophon.

Arp 2 (yellow, lane C)
Rings in modal resonator (green) mode via Qpas, whose level is adjusted in the same way as Arp1.

Bass (white, lane D)
Uses five sinewaves at different intervals and levels to emulate the “Synthetic sub bass using missing fundamental” principle. Four are provided by Tides in high frequency mult/div mode, the 5th from Twin Waves. These are mixed appropriately using Shades and a flying passive mixer. Envelope provided by Z4000 ADSR and Quad VCA.

Percussion (blue, lanes E,F)
Disting EX in multisample mode using Percussion samples.

Pad (grey, lane G)
Cursus Iteritas in Fourier mode. Struct modulated by the envelope. Via Sisters in crossover mode, whose FM is modulated by the envelope, which is provided by Quadra and Quad VCA.

Sequenced by Eloquencer in G Major. Lane H provides the chord progression by offsetting lanes A,B,C,D,G.
Swell reverb effect from Strymon BigSky added via the mixing desk Aux.
Cases: Tiptop Mantis and Eowave.

Audio captured live via Yamaha MG12XU USB into Audacity as a Stereo master (no overdubbing, post mixing or processing apart from some limiting). Monitored on Yamaha HS8's.

The artist Probbie is Paul Williams, born and living in Hertfordshire, U.K.
Paul has held a keen interest in electronic music and synthesisers in particular from childhood, and built his first home-made synthesiser in 1973. Having abandoned the hobby in the digital 1980s, returned with new enthusiasm in 2017 to embrace Eurorack modular synthesisers.

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