MCPM, "On the Drift" - Modular ambient for sleeping, relaxing, or meditating. 

Thank you so much! I really enjoyed this one.

Interestingly, there's no LFO in this - what you're hearing is a sound being delayed and repeated - and each ear is getting a different delay time, which might be what's massaging your brain. :) The power of prime numbers!

Thank you, that's really nice of you to say. There are two Rings elements here. In one (starting from the beginning), I only keep the resonant tail of the Rings sound, in the other I let the whole sound show through more (first occurrence at 8:54) - the balance between them was done manually as it played. Each version has the position & brightness of Rings modulated separately by a combination of Nonlinearcircuits Triple Sloths and Joranalogue Orbit 3. And you're right, the application of the modulation was only done at like 5 or 10%, just slowly shifting the timbre of the sounds to keep them evolving just a little bit. In the end, of course, the idea was to make something suitable for sleeping, so there is nothing dramatic anywhere, just slow shifts to keep it from becoming too boring. I hope you sleep well :)

@@SoundVoltage Back again, stayed up too late after my first of 4 night shifts and I really enjoy falling asleep to this - but it also makes me antsy to build the Sloths I have in my giant pile of NLC and other module builds.

Night shift can be brutal, glad I could help. :) Sloths wasn't too difficult a build, you just need to get comfortable soldering the little SMD components. At least NLC was kind enough not to use the tiny-tiny little ones. The ones they use can at least be seen with the naked eye! One suggestion: light and magnification. Find a lamp/magnifier combo and some really fine tweezers. Also a flux pen. That solves so many problems IMO. Good luck with the build!

@@SoundVoltage Back again. I revisit this piece frequently, it's beautiful and really helps me sleep. You said one part of this is that you only keep the resonant tails of Rings - Do you mean that you're using an envelope with a slow attack to achieve that sound? Or maybe just exciting rings? It seems like you might be sending quantized cv into v/Oct with a bit of a spread, maybe across 3v to get some of those bass notes? Or maybe a shimmer reverb with 1 octave above and below? Can you tell me a bit more about how you've generated the pitch info and how fast it's being triggered? I built that Sloths btw. It's lovely. NLC has so many interesting modules and they keep coming, I just want to keep buying them but my build backlog is already pretty big.

@@LEdHeadW I'm glad you're enjoying it! The videos that are just music don't get a whole lot of attention, so it's really special when someone enjoys them. In terms Rings, what I do is I use a trigger delay (just Maths in that role) and I delay just that fraction of a second to get past the initial attack, then I have a fairly slow A/D envelope to catch the tail of it. It's been a while since I recorded it, but I believe I was using the Vermona Melodicer to generate the pitch CV. It can output random pitches from a set of notes you choose and across a number of octaves. So I would have picked 4 or 5 notes that could overlap with each other and make for nice chords when they do. (Knowing me, it was C, Eb, F, Ab & Bb - I come back to that a lot). I believe my clock was set to something like one step every 2 seconds, but then I randomly throw away 75% of the clock ticks, so sometimes you'll get two notes, one right after the other, sometimes it'll be 20 seconds between them. And then yeah, it goes through a nice shimmery reverb (the Meris Mercury 7 pedal).

Thank you! You are very kind.