{"id":1053,"date":"2012-11-01T13:18:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T12:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2012-11-02T09:25:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T08:25:21","slug":"my-modular-synthesizer-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/my-modular-synthesizer-has-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"My Modular Synthesizer Has Arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Modular Synthesizer has arrived. I just took it out of the box. Now, how do I switch it on? Where does my keyboard plug in? Where is the volume control?<\/p>\n

\"where<\/p>\n

Playing a Modular Synthesizer is usually an open ended development project. Institutions and established composers or producers sometimes buy turnkey systems. The rest of us get a few modules at a time, explore, add more modules, make their own modules, continue to explore\u2026<\/p>\n

A Modular Synthesizer is a collection of mainly analogue electronic circuits, which are built into modules. To create music, I interconnect modules using patch leads, and I feed control signals into this network of circuits. This is called a patch. Each module in the patch contributes “something” to the music. Control signal changes translate into changes to the music: texture, pattern, pitch, timbre, tempo, etc. Slow changes often result in complex and evolving soundscapes.<\/p>\n

Generally, Modular Synthesizers are not<\/em> for playing melodies, and they often don’t have keyboards. Special monophonic analogue synthesizer keyboards are<\/em> available for playing tunes. Adapting a MIDI keyboard to work with a Modular Synthesizer, polyphonic lines and chords can be played, but each individual voice requires a complete “sub-synthesizer” to play just this one note.<\/p>\n

The behavior of complex performance patches is chaotic. Small changes to the values of settings can<\/em> result in a radical changes to the output\u2026 and there is no way to save settings. It is not possible to play a complex patch twice the same way. Modular Synthesizer players live and play for the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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