Jamuary 06 2022 Dark Ambient Drone - MicroFreak, Microcosm, Monologue, Volca Drum, FM #jamuary2022

Here’s a long, slow, dark ambient drone in D minor. It’s inspired by SynthSeeker’s recent video on super slow LFOs for slowly changing timbres. The WaveUser wavetable oscillator on the MicroFreak, coupled with some effects, is the perfect candidate for generating slowly evolving soundscapes. The patches for the MicroFreak, Monologue and the three Zoom-MS70CDRs are included below. Patch notes are included in the video during the jam. The Korg Monologue plays a slow mellow bass sequence. Oscillator 1 plays a gentle sawtooth wave, while oscillator 2 is a sync’ed saw wave, with the envelope modulating the pitch, so it glides through the overtones. I fade between the oscillators manually during the jam, and play with the filter cutoff and resonance a bit. On the MicroFreak, the LFO moves super slowly between the different waves in a wavetable, while the Cyclic Envelope creates a gentle beating sound, sometimes reminiscent of a church bell, sometimes more like a church organ. During the jam, I change the wavetable, as well as the filter cutoff, resonance, and rise and fall of the cyclic envelope. I trigger misc percussive sounds on the Volca Drum, and some gentle melodic plings and plucks on the Volca FM. Three Zoom MS-70CDRs, a Microcosm and a Source Audio Collider makes sure the raw sounds from the synths are lifted up and into space. The Microcosm is used as a send effect, with the Mosaic 3 algorithm. The Volca FM patch is called “Axe“. It’s from one of the public domain DX7 libraries floating around in the interwebs. The MicroFreak patch “DarkDroneWF“ can be downloaded from the Arturia MicroFreak facebook group. The Korg Monologue patch “DarkDroneWF“ can be downloaded from the Korg Monologue Patch Sharing Group on facebook. The Zoom MS-70CDR patches are included below. To load a patch into the MS-70, connect your MS-70 to your computer using a USB cable, go to , right-click an available patch slot, select “Import Patch from text“, and paste in this text. Zoom MS-70CDR #1 (MicroFreak) effect “DroneMF WF“: f052006128004101000c0a6c00201600400600000004000000004102003930192c1d2220531031405100004000010021030072021000010010040000000000000000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000010000000000000000000000000000000008000000400c0f4400726f6e654d462000574600f7 Zoom MS-70CDR #2 (Monologue) effect “DroneMnlgWF“: f052006128080102000c047c000032705002000000040000000061020038707b30001a1023001100100000406400004101006c077440001d404006000000000000000011001d005075410012200010400600000000000000210300120548100100400300000000000000000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000040140f4400726f6e654d6e6c00675700f7 Zoom MS-70CDR #2 (MonologueVolca Drum) effect “DrmPrcWFWF“: f0520061284f410200506e641d182770432130550104004020000100006a700b7c0019104000060000000000000400190000520b2408002e60154006000000000000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000010000000000000000000000000000000008000000400c0f4400726f6e6550726300574600f7 The audio is recorded to SD card on 1010music’s Bluebox mixer/recorder and normalized in Audacity. Video is recorded on a Canon EOS M50 mk2 with the included EF-M 15-45mm lens. Audio and video is synchronized in DaVinci Resolve 17. Gear used: - Arturia MicroFreak - Korg Monologue - Korg Volca Drum - Zoom MS-70CDR - Source Audio Collider - Hologram Electronics Microcosm effect pedal - 1010music Bluebox audio mixer and recorder Audio connections: - MicroFreak - MS-70CDR - Bluebox - Korg Monologue - MS-70CDR - Bluebox - Volca Drum - MS-70CDR - Bluebox - Volca FM - Source Audio Collider - Bluebox - Bluebox - Microcosm - Bluebox MIDI connections: - Korg Monologue MIDI out - Retrokits RC-006 - Retrokits RC-006 - Microcosm - Retrokits RC-006 - Source Audio Collider If you want to support me, consider using these affiliate links when buying gear (or other stuff): - Thomann: - Reverb: ... or buy my music on Bandcamp: #synth #jam #jamuary #drone #ambient