Rainy Days and Sundays always get me down

YouTube Uploaded by cwinkels on Nov 27, 2011

"Some Sunday wiggles. Two channels of audio in this case, the "dirty" one is an Oakley VCO through an STG Post-Lawsuit filter. The "clean" channel is a Q106 through an Oakley Croglin and Oakley Deep Equinoxe."

November de-rain-gement.

Uploaded by cwinkels on Nov 27, 2011

"Continuing my litany of bad puns. This is more or less the same sequence as the last video, only it's just one voice run through a delay line with a little more involved tweaking."

Jones-ing for the O'Tool

Published on Nov 3, 2012 by cwinkels

"Just received my Jones O'Tool MU format oscilloscope from Synthetic Sound Labs. To commemorate I spent the morning putting together a simple patch that featured almost all the SSL modules I have: the Double Deka VCO, the Model 1200 VCO, the Steiner Filter, one channel of the Quad LFO, and a Tap Tempo LFO.

Sorry about the lousy quality on the video. This bloody Kodak doesn't allow for any kind of focusing. Rest assured that the JOT's display quality is very good indeed. And it isn't just an oscilloscope. It's also a spectrum analyzer, a tuner, and a way of amusing overgrown kids such as myself."

Pavlovian Rhapsody

YouTube Published on Jul 14, 2012 by cwinkels

"To address the grave concerns of one Mr. J. Woodall of the fine municipality of York in olde Blighty, I have crafted this elegant new piece of crap to alleviate his worries about me never using drums in any of my pieces of "music".

The musical line, such as it is, is a Q960 sequencer driving an SSL Model 1200 VCO (the output of which is being fed into a Super Sawtor then from that into an STG Sea Devils Filter). The honking big bass drum is a bit of Dotcom pink noise running through the fantastic MegaOhm CdS lowpass gate with a tiny bit of resonance and lots of CV control from a standard Dotcom envelope generator. Triggering for the bass drum is provided by the STG Trigger Mini-Store.

Keith Moon, eat your heart out."

SSL Model 1200 VCO Videos

YouTube Uploaded by cwinkels on Apr 7, 2012

"Most of the details are in the video annotations."

Playlist:
Hard Sync FM of the Model 1200 VCO
More waveform fun with the SSL Model 1200 VCO
PWM Test of the SSL Model 1200 prototype VCO
From Tom Baker to Bomb Taker
Hard Sync and VRG FM modulation of the SSL Model 1200
Hard Sync with PWM test
SSL Model 1200 Hard Sync Test 02

The Bran Ryes Down On Breadway

YouTube Published on Jul 2, 2012 by cwinkels

"Happy Nerding Sawtooth Animator!
SSL Model 1200 VCO!
Q960 Sequencer!
STG Post-Lawsuit LPF!

It's mellow, it's organic, it's what I came up with on the Monday of a long weekend."

Bridge Of Thighs

YouTube Uploaded by cwinkels on Feb 26, 2012

"Take three Q106 triangle oscillators(at 32', 16', and 8'). Mix and run through an STG Wavefolder, then into an STG Post-Lawsuit Lowpass Filter. Send the filter output to an Oakley Deep Equinoxe Phaser. Take the output of that and add a smidgen of delay. And that's it.

Oh, it also helps to have three channels of sequencing. The master clock is a Q960. Running at half speed from that is a Voltage Mini-Store. And at 1/8 speed is a Q119. Mix all three sequencer outputs, and you have the pitch CV. The Deep Equinoxe has its modulation output driven by an SSL Tap Tempo LFO with an upward sawtooth rather than its onboard LFO.

As always, the shakey, out of focus camera work is my bête noire. Sorry about that!"

My first date with the Double Deka

YouTube Uploaded by cwinkels on Mar 3, 2012

"Here's a quick video made of SSL's interpretation of the Ian Fritz Double-Deka VCO. My usual caveats about lousy focus apply here too, sorry.

This is my first exposure to it in the flesh; it's literally been switched on for 10 minutes before the camera started recording! It looks much, MUCH better in person. The illuminated LEDs are a joy to behold.

What's going on: Bank A and Bank B of the DDVCO are set to 50:50 mix, but the mix is modulated at audio rate by a Dotcom Q106 VCO's sine wave output. That generates a useful FM-style buzz. This is routed through an STG Soundlabs Post-Lawsuit Lowpass filter. Initially the filter has a very low cutoff and about 50% resonance, but I dial back the resonance as I play with raising the filter cutoff level. Then it's into the VCA and out to a delay to add some echo.

There's not much else going on in this patch; about half the cables you see are from a previous setup I neglected to tear down. They don't influence the sound or provide any other control sources."