Radio Music Patch Recipes - Spandex/RadioMusic GitHub Wiki

Random Beatbox

####Ingredients

  • Radio Music
  • Turing Machine
  • Turing Machine Pulses Expander
  • Some clock source
  • An oscillator
  • Two channels of LPG / Vactrol Filter (QMMG, Optomix, MMG)

####Method

  • Preparation
    • The Radio Music settings file should include: MUTE=0 (for a fast response) StartCVImmediate=1 (so CV changes immediately retrigger the sample without waiting for a reset pulse)
  • Create a basic kick and snare pattern
    • Patching the Oscillator and the Turing white noise output to the audio inputs on two LPGs, with the outputs going to your output mixer
    • Trigger the white noise with the 1 output on the Pulses expander, with the the 1+2 output going to the oscillator channel
    • Adjust the oscillator frequency and the Turing Machine pattern until you have a rough groove
  • Build the random beatbox
    • Patch the Turing Machine output to the Radio Music START input, with the Radio Machine output going to your output mixer. Set the little Turing machine output level control to about 9 o'clock.
    • Choose a drum loop bank on the Radio Music and adjust Station and Start knobs until you get something good

####Extra Sauce

  • Run the output through a Music Thing Spring Reverb. Patch the 2+4 output into a Maths channel, or other envelope generator. Send that envelope to the CV control input, for random, looping, tempo-synced reverb depth changes.
  • It's even more fun with non-drum samples