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Let’s make a modular synth patch in the style of Ryoji Ikeda
Ikeda’s style is famous for its austere structure and meticulously carved sounds. Such precision is achievable in the digital domain, so it may thus sound a bit odd to emulate it with a modular synthesizer, which by definition is “less reliable” than a computer.
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Bird-like sequences with bizarre clocks thanks to USTA and FALISTRI
Time to explore more quirky interactions between USTA and FALISTRI!
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Programming sequences with Nicolas Slonimsky’s Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns
Slonimsky’s Thesaurus is quite a strange music book, but its impact on Jazz and experimental musicians has been enormous. Today we tiptoe into this extravagant world to see if there’s anything interesting for our USTA sequencer!
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What are modes and why they’re all over the USTA sequencer
We started from the overtone series and we arrived at Western tonal harmony. However, we left something behind: the modes. In today’s video, we’ll see what they are, and why they seem such a vague concept.
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How to shift gates to spice up a boring sequence on the USTA
This patch came up during a past live workshop on the USTA sequencer. It was an advanced session and one of the main questions was: “how can I get enough variation on a repetitive loop?”
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What is tonal harmony and why it is relevant to the USTA sequencer
Tonal harmony might sound super old and boring but it’s never going to die, whether we like it or not! In this video, we will see what it is and why it might be worth a chance with the USTA sequencer.
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Notes, intervals, tuning, temperament: the basics of music and their impact on the USTA sequencer
In the previous video, we got a glimpse of how notes and overtones are related. Today, we’ll see how we came to 12 notes in the West.
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Clock processing with USTA and FALISTRI
Today we’ll see how to use FALISTRI as a clock divid… Dela… Multipl… Well let’s say clock PROCESSOR. Check out this cross-patching technique with the USTA sequencer!
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Recreating the pitch and phase shift patch on the USTA sequencer
Today we dive more into a recently published short patch where we used the pitch shift and phase shift functions of the USTA sequencer. We then proceeded to expand it thanks to the larger system here!
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Let’s build a patch around the 3:2 ratio with the USTA sequencer (and perform in pythagorean tuning)
We had this wild idea and we want to check it out with the USTA sequencer. We set three sequences a fifth apart from one another. Since the fifth is a ratio of 3:2, we also wanted their respective tempos to be 3:2! Here’s how we did it.
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