Yep, Really. It never seemed worth it to me for the longest time, so I never bothered much with trying, but I’ve got a few stereo output sources and a quadrature oscillator…why not give it a shot?

Well, it’s pretty nifty. Pretty nifty indeed. I’ve never had the added dimension of feeling everything moving around me, and I think I like it. And the VC gain on the quadrature oscillator is fantastic, all panning here and there sometimes faster or slower or more or less intensely. Have I mentioned my love for voltage control?

Again, not much of a concept, the only thing I keep noticing myself doing is using the stepped half of the SSG as a staircase generator, because that’s another one of those things I’ve never really had or had access to, so I’ve never really thought of it as anything more than rising and falling stepped voltages, but just varying the rate can lead to some pretty snappy stuff…oh Serge, you do me so right with your ability to voltage control anything and everything.

The ringing VCFQ kind of bugs me throughout this, but it was something I’d added to the mix going to the WAD feedback Aux. input just to see how it’d go. It works in places, though. A lot of the tune is thanks to the TKB being flipped forward and backward pretty often. This is another one of those mostly self-generating patches, but every so often I step in and just twiddle a bunch of knobs, just to change it up, which is why everything seems so…indecisive. I’m very happy with how it turned out, but I tend to be most of the time. Putting it together is most of the fun, listening to the result is just the bonus points afterwards. I’m a big fan of most of this one…especially towards the end, it starts to groove in a pretty delightful way.

So hopefully it’s widely enjoyed, and more will inevitably come.

Audio: indecisiveweddingband.mp3

This is the first installment of what I hope will be a pretty consistent stream of awesome generated by the mighty, mighty, oh so very mighty Serge. Being a blog and all, I suppose I should probably talk about it instead of just spewing noise and leaving. On that note…

There’s no central idea here, and I’m really not much of one to have a central idea and base a patch around it. I’ve done similar things too many times to count, but when it’s all said and done, the idea I start with inevitably finds itself to no longer be so…central.

But let’s see what I can remember about what was going on here. I’m really into the Dual Phaser right now. It’s the only phaser I’ve ever liked, really, and I don’t just like it, I crave it. It’s absolutely magical what a jerkily modulated phaser can do for a feedback path. I’m using one half of the Dual Phaser to phase-squiggle the signal going into the WAD’s feedback Aux. input. I don’t remember exactly what the other half is doing, but I think it has something to do with phasing the bottom of the Wave Multiplier against the middle section.

I’m completely in love with the NTO’s variable waveform output…it never fails to make really weird FM even weirder. I think I’ve got the NTO being FM’ed by a PCO which is being FM’ed by the Lowpass output of the Variable Q filter being hit with triggers (and there was judicious use of triggering it with an audio-rate signal, thanks to everyone who was talking about that).

CV-wise I have very little recollection of the specifics, but I suppose it was pretty standard Serge fare (which is about as far from standard as it gets, but I don’t know how else to put it)…a gargantuan orgy of every conceivable CV generator being fed into every other CV generator. Looking at my picture, your guess is as good as mine as to what was routed where.

Anyhow, it sounds like this.