One Life | Melodic Ambient

Welcome to Season 3! 🎶 One Life begins a new roll of Digitalzelf. Not a love song, but a song about love. About what we do with it when there are no second chances. This performance was recorded live in one take. 🖤 I hope you enjoy the journey. 🎧 Headphones recommended — 🎛️ PATCH NOTES Squarp Instruments Hermod + Arturia KeyStep • Hermod is the main sequencer for the modular system • KeyStep is used to enter notes, rhythms, and CV information into Hermod • Hermod also sequences the Teenage Engineering OP-Z via MIDI • Track 1 clock → Doepfer A-160-2 Clock Divider • Clock Divider outputs → Morphagene clock, Morphagene PLAY, and Mutable Instruments Tides • Another Hermod CV track → Mutable Instruments Beads pitch, allowing grain pitch/octave changes during the performance Teenage Engineering OP-Z • Chord track: chord progression • Arpeggiator track: arpeggiated material used in one section • Melodic track: counter-melodies and textural melodic material • Sampler track: vinyl texture • Simple hi-hat pattern in one section • OP-Z audio → Qu-Bit Nebulae V2 Qu-Bit Nebulae V2 • Contains a reel recorded previously from the OP-Z melodic track • Reel is replayed slower and pitched down • Blends the live OP-Z signal with the prerecorded reel • Stereo output → Roland 521 Dual VCF • Overlap modulated by Ornament & Crime Mutable Instruments Rings • Main melodic voice • ODD / EVEN outputs → Mutable Instruments Clouds • Position and FM modulated by Mutable Instruments Tides • Clouds adds reverb and granular texture, pushing Rings further back in the mix and creating a greater sense of distance Make Noise Morphagene • Reel contains three melodic splices • Splice 1: main melody of the chorus-like section • Other two splices: previously hand-played melodies • Splices are changed manually during the performance • Morphagene is faded in and out manually depending on the section • Tape speed is also manipulated by hand • Slide modulated by Ornament & Crime Mutable Instruments Plaits • Main output → Tiptop Audio Forbidden Planet VCF • Forbidden Planet used as a low-pass filter • Plaits provides the bass voice • Filter cutoff modulated by Make Noise Maths • Output → Erica Synths Pico Output → Teenage Engineering EP-136 KO Sidekick Ch. 2 ↕️ Main Modular Audio Path • Erica Synths Black Stereo Mixer → Nano Modules CEQ • CEQ: light EQ + compression • CEQ → Mutable Instruments Beads • Beads: reverb + granular texture across the modular mix • Beads → Befaco Out → KO Sidekick Ch. 1 • KO Sidekick → Zoom H6 〰️ Beads Modulation Ornament & Crime • Grain Size Squarp Hermod • Grain Pitch / octave changes during the performance Teenage Engineering EP-136 KO Sidekick • Ch. 1: main modular mix • Ch. 2: Plaits bass • Bass channel uses light compression and EQ, reducing highs and emphasizing the low end • Final stereo mix → Zoom H6 Everything was performed and recorded live. — 👉 Like, comment & subscribe if it resonates. 🌐 Explore more: https://digitalzelf.com/ 🔗 All links: https://linktr.ee/digitalzelf #modularsynth #eurorack #teenageengineering #opz #morphagene #mutableinstruments #rings #beads #qubitelectronix #nebulae #makenoisemusic #ambientmusic #melodicambient #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #digitalzelf