Procedural Tonality and Texture

Bela Pepper as a 30-Op FM Voice and Generative Sequencer + Glitched, filtered, distorted buffer effects from Daisy Petal. Rainmaker provides long echoes and some filtering.

Performative Beat Algorithmics

Bela Pepper as a very playable, generative drum sequencer. All sounds and effects are from Pepper, which is cycling through several multibuffers. Includes the Dattorro reverb!

Dynamic Percussive Sequencer

When I designed this generative drum sequencer for Pepper, I built-in several CV pathways for controlling Pepper's four digital inputs. Additional mangling provided by Rainmaker.

Aleatoric Sample Conflux

Bela Pepper cycling through hundreds of samples. EOC outputs of 8 loopers trigger a possible state changes introducing a variable number of new samples. Flanging, filtering, and decimation effects are internal.

Volution Versio

Dynamic, spatializing live granular synthesizer with individual state-variable filters, decimation, and swirling panning algorithms per grain. Grains can be filter-swept up or down (the latter can create a percussive effect) or be fixed using a sample/hold algorithm. Pitch control and grain length up to 60 seconds.

Detritus Versio

Glitched buffer with two channels that can be coupled, decoupled to stereo, or decoupled and mixed to mono. Meandering LFOs control timing effects and resonant low-pass filtering. Choice of randomized bandpass filtering or randomized state variable filter and decimation. Optional windowing, buffer hopping, and flanging effects.

OSC Eurorack Bridge

A simple bridge prototype that uses the Adafruit Metro M4 Airlift as a WiFi AP, with 3 jacks for CV and 3 for gates. Future versions will include buffering for compatibility with Pepper and other passive modules. The Metro is programmed to accumulate and wrap the M5Stick's gyroscope z-axis data, which is used to toggle a gate that activates notes from Pepper.

I often simulate an ecosystem of various modules I'm developing on the computer in order to think through feature improvement. The constraint of programming this way is valuable, because these patches cannot be huge or big CPU hogs. A few salient parameters or macros have to be chosen for a limited set of controls. A module needs enough character to be musically interesting, yet be general enough to be played and adapted in new ways, just like a good musical instrument.