Named by Brian Groth and Charlie Johnson in the livestream chat, Forest Haunt is a combination of a pinged filter arpeggio, a string-inspired synth/theremin-y voice, and a couple of loopers that record the string synth and play it back, reversed, either a fifth or an octave below (depending on which looper captures the signal).
Every so often, the key and scale change; the key is derived from the third note of the arpeggio (which might be an octave, so it might stay the same!); the scale is randomly chosen from major or minor scales. This does not always result in the smoothest modulation! But sometimes it’s really beautiful; this is a patch I might use to audition modulations.
I’ve tried to label the pages as best I could, but there’s a lot going on in terms of governing how the patch evolves over time.
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This patch is STUNNING. Some of my favorite moments are actually when an abrupt modulation causes the patch to go sort of bitonal and then slowly fall back into a single key area.