Making the background voices sound like a church organ wasn't a deliberate choice. It was only after working on the patch for a while that I noticed it was starting to get a very "Walking down The Aisle in church"feeling. Not that I mind, it provides a nice texture on which to sprinke the other voices.

The whole patch is build using slow chord sequences. There are four chord sequences that will be switched between at random, all of them in the same key.
The organlike sound is created by generating a bass note with the root of each chord in the Basal modules. At the same time, the root, third and fifth of the chord is sent through the Dark Energy module, and a sort of simple melody line is created by letting an FMOP module playing one of the chord notes on above that.
On top of that, a couple of more sporadic voices are triggered.

For the first such voice, a sequence generated by a slowclocked ProbKey module is quantised to the notes of the currently playing chord. This is then sent to an FMOP module that gets slowly faded in and out. Due to the chord quantization, the tone of this voice can change when a note crosses a chord boundry. A Tap Dancer delay will spread out this voice.

A second voice is constructed using a faster clock on the same ProbKey module and chord quantization combination. Because the volume envelope of this voice is slower then the clock that generates the notes and there is some probability applied to the triggering of the envelope, this voice jumps around a bit more. By sending it through another Tap Dancer delay and only using the wet signal, it does get pushed into the background a bit more.

The final voice uses several different oscillator waveforms and modulates them together. The ShapeMaster module applies a triplet volume pattern to this, but only triggering on the second and third triplets with a descending volume pattern. The sound is fed through two channels, where the second one applies this volume pattern in reverse and with an modulated offset. The end result is combined with a filtered version of the original signal. Oh, and another Tap Dancer delay ofcourse.

The end result: some stability and some randomized variation, all using the same chords and chord notes.

__ Setup __
VCV Rack 2.3.0 on Windows
All audio generated internally within VCV Rack (no external connections)
Video is captured by OBS
Audio output is sent through a VBAudio Virtual Cable to Ableton Live
Audio recording synced to OBS, and fades are added at the beginning and end in Reaper
OBS video and Reaper audio are merged and cut to length using Shutter Encoder.

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