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You stumble across a giant metal doorway that grinds open with a heaving clang. Inside you enter an abandoned bunker filled with machinery. It must be at least 2000 years old. The sound of your footsteps disappears into this cavernous darkness, dimly illuminated by strips of warm red lighting. A heavy smell of old roots and crisp ozone in the air. There's a faint sound of ambient activity, like the power could still be turned back on at any moment, but you can't place the direction it's coming from. In the distance, a strange metallic sound...

"Abandoned Machinery I", a fullygenerative Dark Ambient synthesizer patch. Perfect to use as background music or soundtracks for tabletop RPGs, Warhammer & Battletech campaigns, D&D, other board game nights or simply for working or sleeping.

Patch Notes:

"Abandoned Machinery" follows the goal of a "less is more" generative soundscape based around two digital synth voices by Mutable Instruments.

It was originally intended to be a more complex patch (you can see the red 1to5 mult stars near the bottom of the synth that were planned for later use). However, early on I reached a point I was very happy with and let the sound drift through my music studio for almost 90 minutes while I recorded.

There are two primary sound sources: Mutable Instruments Elements & Rings. A Marbles module is controlling Elements and Rings with semirandom Turing Machinestyle gates and voltages.

Reverb, delay, and long damping times are obviously huge parts of this patch. The Elements module is nearly maxed out on its "Space" setting, providing its own unique reverb. There's also a master reverb on the track that comes from the Allen & Heath Zed10FX mixer.

Rings runs straight into Beads for additional spatial effects like reverbs and echos. Elements runs into Tallin for a bit of additional warmth and mild saturation and grit.

Some very interesting modulations from Mutable Tides are wired into both sound sources for everychanging effects on their timbres.

There's no further processing in the box this recording is presented just as I heard it on the day I made the patch.

PRIMARY GEAR

Eurorack Modules:
Mutable Instruments Marbles (SemiRandom Sequencing of Pitches & Gates)
Mutable Instruments Elements (Primary Soundsource 1)
Mutable Instruments Rings (Primary Soundsource 2)
Mutable Instruments Tides (Modulates the timbres)
Mutable Instruments Beads (Adds spatial effects on Rings)
Xaoc Devices Tallin (Amplifier stage adding warmth and grit to Elements)
Intellijel Mixup (Stereo mixer)
Intellijel 1U Headphone Out (sends the modular synth into my audio interface)

Mixer: Allen & Heath Zed10FX
Audio Interface: MOTU M4
Camera: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 6k Pro
Lens: Sigma 1835mm F1.8 Art

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