A pleasant ambience created by a simple chord-progression-with-bass-line looping behind an improvisation by a sampled celesta.

This patch is a straightforward design with little internal complexity. The Progress chord generator controls a polyphonic Macro Oscillator – aka Braids – to provide the accompaniment pad. A burst generator is used to create melodic material for the celesta. Btw, the celesta is from the freely-available Virtual Private Orchestra SFZ and is played by the SFZ Player from the Squinky Labs plugin. A second Macro Oscillator adds a simple kick drum part, while a basic oscillator supplies a monotonic bass line to complete the audio generation group.

I’ve deployed considerably more effects processing here. The Plateau plate reverb and the Rackwindows chorus are applied globally. Two delay lines, a formants filter, a “vocal animator”, and a compressor are applied variously at the channel level.

Recorded with ecasound and edited with mhwaveedit, as usual. In Linux, as always.

The crew line-up includes:

Amalgamated Harmonics – Progress
AS – DelayPlusFX
Autodafe – 1×8 Mult
Bogaudio – S&H
Count Modula – Burst Generator
Frozen Wasteland – BPM LFO
HetrickCV – Random Gates
Impromptu Modular – Clocked, Tact-1
ML_Modules – Quantum
NYSTHI – 4DCB
Rackwindows – Chorus
RJModules – Button
Skrylar – Jack 4×4
Squinky Labs – Comp, Basic Oscillator, Form, ExFor, Formants, Growler, SFZ Player
Stoermelder – 8Face, uMap
Submarine Free – TD-202
SV Modular – M
SynthKit – Clock Divider
Valley Audio – Plateau
VCV – VCA-1, ADSR, 8vert, Oct
Wiqid Anomalies – Dual Attenuverter
Xenakios – Macro Oscillator (polyphonic)

My thanks to their creators and to all VCV Rack developers and users.

Dave Phillips
13 June 2021