Experimenting with the Geodesics modular suite in miRack on my iPad mini.

The whole point of this experiment was in trying to fulfill Suzanne Ciani’s maxim “It’s not about the sound. It’s about the movement of sound.” (@sevwave on Twitter)

For this patch I created a performance workflow that automated mixer levels with LFO’s and allowed me to manually add or remove VCO sounds in the mix without having to manually move mixer faders. Each VCO was connected to a mixer channel. For each VCO I connected a CV voltmeter into the signal path that had an LFO driving a VCA managed by an Attenuverter with an offset that was then connected to a mixer channel. I started the performance with all mixer channels muted except the first channel which was connected to the VCO acting as the sub bass. I hit play in mirack and then faded in the mixer master level to begin the jam. Then I kept my eyes on the two voltmeters in the middle of the patch. I had seven voltmeters connected to all seven VCO’s which were each connected to their own channel on the mixer. These voltmeters showed me which VCO’s were audible (>5 volts) or not audible (5 volts). As the voltmeter showed a voltage approaching 5 volts I would toggle the mixer mute button off for that VCO. The LFO would then increase the VCA level for that channel slowly bringing that VCO’s sound into the mix. Similarly I could remove a VCO from the mix in the same way.

Performance recorded and mastered in AUM with Kymatica’s AUFX equalizer and compressor and Bram Bos’s Kosmonaut delay/reverb fx.

Performance: https://soundcloud.com/user-526373505/kc39-1