The allure of Eurorack - building your own synths. Drone synth patch notes in description

The allure of Eurorack - building your own synths just the way you want them. Well, perhaps just putting together other peoples’ modules to assemble the instrument you want to play... but close enough!

This mini drone synth is made of only three modules (OK four if you count two copies of Gliss).

Mojave from @QuBitElectronix is responsible for most of the drone magic here. It’s a granular synth module, but unlike any I’ve seen, it excels at pitch-shifting grains across different intervals and scales to create a storm of melodies and harmonies, and on top of that has a buffer that lets you use it like a long delay, as well as a built in reverb and quite a lot more.

Wave Transformer is a complex oscillator from @EarthQuakerDevices - but quite unlike most complex waveshapers you’ve seen. Traditional ones use wave folding techniques; this one crumples waveforms in quite a more aggressive way, especially if you let its sub-oscillators in (I wasn’t that brave in this patch!). It also has a VCA mode, but drone oscillators don’t bother with such nonsense when real estate isn’t plentiful.

Finally, Gliss from @BelaPlatform seems like just a simple touch surface, but it has multiple modes, including acting as a wavetable synth(!). In this patch, I use its note mode on the left Gliss and motion record on the right one.

Note mode lets you program up to 5 notes on the surface. It’s both pressure sensitive (mapped to add harmonics on Wave Transformer here) and lets you create glides between notes - really cool IMHO!

Record mode lets you record motions and then play them back. In this case I’m modulating through Mojave’s buffer with it.

Audio is recorded with a smidge of @ArturiaOfficial Rev LX-24 and some @WeAreElektron Heat “Enhance” mode for fun.

The case is a custom little wooden one built by 2ManySynths it doesn’t come with power, so there’s a little @tiptopaudiofficial uZeus hiding inside, and the 90 degree cables are Tendrils.

Thanks to EarthQuaker, Qu-bit and Bela for sending over the modules that inspired this combo. YouTube shorts are only one minute, but you can hear the full jam on Instagram

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