This is a simple but richsounding patch that I came up with while I was working on another video about modular synth utilities. It sounded pretty cool, so I thought I’d record a quick breakdown in the meantime.

Here I’m feeding the Doepfer A1602 an audiorate signal from an oscillator (in this case the Plum Audio RO’VED), mixing four of the outputs in Mutable Instruments Blinds, and using four LFOs from Joranalogue Filter 8 (all 90 degrees out of phase with each other) to slowly modulate the levels. The result is a constantlymoving stepped waveform, as you’ll see on the scope.

I’m driving the patch with a simple fivestep sequence from Mutable Instruments Stages, and feeding the result through a filter, spring reverb and Monsoon (aka Clouds).

You can take this idea a step further with audiorate amplitude modulation (AM) rather than LFOs (which is easy to do with Filter 8!), or explore other combinations of subharmonics, perhaps switching or crossfading between them to vary the ‘chord’ that results. Enjoy...

Chapters
00:00 Preview and intro
01:13 What is a clock divider?
02:28 Setup and signal chain
04:19 Individual subharmonics
05:58 Building the full patch and jamming
11:33 Even deeper drone: 4octave stack

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