Patch a day challenge #14

You can download the patch here. Starting a jam that can create bits for weapons. Low End attack, transients. Not sure where this will go but its about weapon sounds. The weapon sounds I did for killzone shadow fall all had a mix of real world weapon sounds, straight and manipulated but also synthesis. This …

Patch a day challenge #13

You can download the patch here. Today’s patch was an impromptu collaboration between Joe White (@diplojocus), Pinar Temiz (@shegoeslocofoco) outside before diner in Amsterdam. A true patching passing around a laptop. Oh and Seb’s (@DownieSeb) creates his first pd object connectiosn at the beginning. Very cute. Its sort of about comb filtering. Anyways, it was …

Patch a day challenge #11

You can download egregore here. You can download the patch here. Today I bring you 2 jams. The first is me having a blast with Egregore. An installation piece made in pure data entirely. It has a ridiculously cool sound and has all kinds of knobs to mess with. Its all very smart. Its also, …

Patch a day challenge #10

You can download the patch here. My colleague Pinar Temiz was talking up filterbanks yesterday, and after i heard it a bit i was sold. So today i had prepared a “filterbank” subpatch which is just 10 bandpass filters with the frequency rising with a ratio. so the [pd filterbank] object has 4 inlets. Audio …

Patch a day challenge #9

You can download the patch here. So yesterday i was messing around with the granular some more and I got somewhere. I noticed on my laptop though that it cannot really capture the video and still have enough CPU juice to keep the message rate consistent. Anyways, in the studio it worked better. around 40 …

Patch a day challenge #8

You can download the patch here. A continuation of yesterday’s “on the road” hybrid setup. Pure Data feeds Korg Monotron. And that gets recorded on Sony M10. Its also a continuation of the patch. Yesterday I really believed in this “drunk” granular model. However I found some flaws in the patch that I tried to …

Patch a day challenge #7

You can download the patch here. Ok so we were on a road trip. I brought an extra camera. because i did a hybrid setup. Pure Data going into Korg Monotron. And monotron going into Sony M10. I ended up making a very rudimentary granular synthesizer. unfortunatly my laptop couldnt really handle this 2 camera …

Patch a day challenge #6

You can download the patch here. Creating a patch a day can be a bit of a stressful experience. Today was a such a day, it was a very busy day and I couldnt get stuff to work really on my morning commute. So this was pretty completly made on the way back home after …

Patch a day challenge #5

You can download the patch here. Today’s jam takes some things we’ve seen before in 1-4, modulated feedback, randomization, wavetable oscillation and puts them together. Combining feedback with some randomization. The interesting bit about feedback stuff is that everytime you make them they turn out slightly differently. Today was more proof of that. It wasn’t …