I was trying to create a hybrid track with arranged, fixed and generative elements, exploring how to get away from complete randomness while still leaving room for aleatoric variation.

Pachde’s Imagine is operated for gating and modulation, using a snowflake-donkey-teddy bear mandala made from a photo of clouds in the sky. X and Y being driven by two BPM LFOs with different periods.

Eight voices in total. The basis is a more or less steady beat with some snare fills. Percussive Vibration for string-like sounds. Warp Core for a distorted bass. Terrorform as a lead. Macro Oscillator 2 for bells and a second snare. Fence with a changing range of pitches. A couple of Chances modules to add randomness.

StochSeq4 with varying sequencer lengths for different voices, to manage and mix up song structure. Each run through creates a slightly different variation in the arrangement. For a quick toss-up, press the INV button of one or more sequencer lanes in StochSeq4 or change sliders manually (use 0 or 100%).

The picture is included as a .jpg file. As I am not sure whether Imagine will find it, it may have to be loaded into the patch manually.

Submission to VCP Challenge #77.