Strange Tales Demos - Modular Compositions #1

[Strange Tales]

You have to do a possessed demo too....want one so badly

There is one on eBay right now I think. I'd say just go for it now because it's pretty impossible to be disappointed by it! The only thing you really can't do with it is feed it too hot of a signal, that seems to be the one thing that'll fry it.

[Strange Tales]

And I sheepishly thought I'd sell this to fund my Bass VI. Also shit is so nice with the Count to 5.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glzHxim_MWM[/youtube]

[Strange Tales]

Q: Hey Strange Tales, whatchya doin?
A:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2i_ZAd_Mus[/youtube]

[Dandolin]

Love it! Just. Wow!

[UglyCasanova]

For real. I could listen to that for hours.

[Strange Tales]

Thanks guys! Definitely makes me happy to do this stuff.

Also, absolutely everyone needs an EHX 8 Step Program. Just the best in Random mode.

[Teej212]

so damn cool.....can you explain whats going on?

[Strange Tales]

so damn cool.....can you explain whats going on?

I can try my best!

Drone Commander is set with one sine oscillator and one squarewave, I honestly don't remember most of the settings because I turn and forget pretty quickly. The AARP settings are what I had the last time I used it, but you can see those easily as well. The AARP is going into the Mode 1 Ct5 which is having the time controlled by the 8 Step Program set to random. I'm pretty sure the Judder is set to Stutter mode for most of the video, until I switch it to the Judder mode and you start hearing me crap out the PT2399 for sweet, sweet noises.

That runs into the Clouds. This is where my understanding goes downhill because I really don't 100% understand the Clouds yet. So, I have the ADSR Envelope Generator controlling Freeze, Trigger, and Blend. Blend is basically what is setting the tempo of it all. I have the blend constantly running on the first section of the Clouds, which is a dry/wet fix. I'm 95% sure it sweeps up between full wet, and like 50% or so.

The Trigger is for each time it triggers to record a sample. So it sort of comes out like this in my head. It grabs a slice of audio, and then that audio is repeated based on the Size knob (length of sample), Pitch knob, Density knob (I don't know, but it's what makes those beeps in accordance to Pitch), and Texture knob (how reverb-y (I guess?) it sounds).

So the Envelope is continuously triggering a back and forth between the sample and the freeze mode. The freeze mode takes the current splice you have going on and does exactly what it says, it freezes all other sound and then your sample held sort of drones out based on the other settings (Light 3 and 4 are Feedback and Reverb respectively). So the entire time the Clouds is grabbing samples and then continuously switching between triggering them with the sound, and freezing them in place, all the while the blend knob is constantly dropping the dry sound in and out.

I think that makes sense?

[Bro Juice]

This is exactly what I was looking for. I love you man.

[Strange Tales]

This is something I was trying out for fun to see what happens but fuck me. Even the iPhone captured how deep the bass was considering my amp is set to 0 right now.

I'm never selling my Boss SYB-5 now.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHAd8Df_Z5g[/youtube]

[Teej212]

cool! always been curios about the syb

[Strange Tales]

Around 6:47 I create possibly my favorite sound. Ghost Delay has also been moved into my never sell pile. The best ambiance delay bar none.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hushpLmOpiw[/youtube]

[UglyCasanova]

SO. MUCH. GHOST DELAY. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!

Awesome video as always!

[Strange Tales]

SO. MUCH. GHOST DELAY. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!

Awesome video as always!

You and Eivind totally need to get one! It creates great ambiance and it doesn't show in the video, but all of the feedbacking started to shake the floor and I could feel it in my body.

[Strange Tales]

I very, very, very, VERY much have absolutely no idea what I'm doing when it comes to the Maths. It's the first time I've ever used it and the module is absolutely pure insanity.



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA-wACowowg[/youtube]