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Piston Honda + Synthrotek EKO (First 5 minutes with EKO)

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Here's the first patch I put together using my newly-assembled Synthrotek EKO Delay module. The EKO uses the trusty Princeton PT2399 delay chip, which - when pushed to extremes - does some very strange and wonderful things: Breaking up, glitching, going all lo-fi and "glassy".....all good fun! The sound source is my old favourite, the Harvestman Piston Honda - one of the few modules that I sold, and then had to buy back as I missed it so much. I tried out the mk.2 version, but found that I actually preferred the mk.1. Its pitch is modulated by an a149-1 random voltage, as is its wavetable. It is fed through the wonderful CLEE Quad VC-Resonant Gate (LPG), whose Cutoff is "pinged" by a sharp Exponential envelope from Maths, whilst also being modulated by the a149-1. The "mode" (resonance) of the CLEE is also modulated, and during the recording I manipulate the cutoff and other controls manually.

The Piston and EKO certainly make a very nice lo-fi/ glitchy pairing, and the CLEE smooths off some of the rough edges. This channel of the CLEE has been trimmed so that it has a very restrained resonance, even at its highest settings, which makes it easier to jam with than some resonant LPGs - which can suddenly get very harsh when pushed beyond a certain point.

Zero processing used on this recording - simply the output of the EKO recorded into Logic, with a tiny bit of limiting on it.

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from Piston Honda + Synthrotek EKO, released May 10, 2014

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