Well....another silly patch emerges!

This is a pretty simple patch, but is abusing two pretty intense modules: The Cyclonix Cyclebox (never gets old!) and the bizarre Doepfer a196 PLL (Phase Locked Loop).

Basically, the Cyclebox is being sequenced by a quantized random LFO from Silent Way. The rhythmic variations are provided by the Turing Machine's Pulses expander module, which triggers 3 different envelopes from the Intellijel Quadra (one snappy one is triggered directly, whilst two more are triggered from clock-divided output the Pulses - making them more sporadic, and holding the envs on for longer).

The Cyclebox' output is sent into the Oakley Classic VCA. The first snappy Quadra envelope is sent into the Exponential CV input, with the other two, slower/ softer envelopes mixed together and sent into the Linear CV input. The Turing Machine is left to spew out random, un-looped rhythms.

The Cyclebox is set to mode 0000 (essentially a basic Fm setup, where Osc2 modulates Osc1, with phase-shifted versions of the result coming out of each output. The Sync is set to "INT"). The LEAD output is fed directly into the Oakley VCA, whereas the LAG is sent into the "in 2" (signal input) of the a196 PLL. The same CV source that is modulating the Cyclebox' Pitch (the Silent Way Random LFO) is also sent into the a196' CV input, to modulate the pitch of the inbuilt VCO. The Range is set to "hi" and the Phase COmp is set to "3". The output of the a196 (from the Lowpass section) is sent into the second input of the Oakley, and mixed with the main, unprocessed Cyclebox output.

During the recording the straight Cyclebox signal is heard, and then gradually the PLL output is faded in, providing a bizarre "PWM/ Osc Sync" kind of sound. After that, various other parameters are tweaked, adding yet more chaos to proceedings:

Cyclebox: iFM, Waveshaper GAIN, PH2, Osc1 waveform...which is switched to Wavetable mode halfway through, Coarse Pitch, and Mode - changed to 0010. The Phase Comp output of the a196 is also sent into the iFM and GAIN CV inputs at various points.

a196: Offset, Range.

Things get pretty gnarly! You can have a lot of fun with these two modules, and the interaction between them is pretty special. The a196 is a very strange beast, and is hard to tame sometimes...but when it decides to play ball it is utterly bonkers, and produces sounds that would be hard to achieve otherwise. It seems to work best if you mix it in with the unprocessed signal, to keep some semblance of normality to the patch!