A while ago, I made a video where I mentioned the Crazy Chicken Six Eyes, a really cool compact sequencer with a great idea and a fun panel behind it. After some consideration and a bit of a deal from Crazy Chicken, I grabbed one. I wanted to see what this little sequencer could do. I loved the form factor and that it could sequence 32 steps and I liked the algorithm it utilized. I made a patch or two around similar ideas using gates which occupied multiple steps and summed them all together, quantized them and out came magic. Mind you, to patch like that requires so much more than 8hp.
My experience with this little sequencer have been great. I like that it’s quirky and not so precision. Initially, I thought it had an issue but I think that’s just this circuit and maybe a bit of the brilliance behind it. In modular - or electronic music at large - we embrace things that are a bit different, diodes that distort in certain ways, circuits that experience stress, all sorts of stuff. I know very little about any of it but in the end, I figure this is no different. The end results though are really musical and fun and offer more to learn within modular.
This is the second video in this little “modular groovebox” series. I’ll cram this Intellijel 4u104hp case with as much as I can and talk about either the whole setup, or one particular module. It’s all meant to show that the cases we see that are bigger than our bank accounts or knowledge aren’t the only way to have a cohesive modular setup. Meant as encouragement for anyone starting out that you can do a lot with not as many modules as you think you might need. That was a surprise for me and part of this little journey.
This video has some jams, some demos, many thoughts and ramblings as well. Hope you enjoy it. Also, I mention the context of occupation and a poster I designed regarding something going on right now. Hoping for thumbs up as I just bring this thing that I created to a community I love.
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Time Stamps
0:00 Intro to Episode 2 on Six Eyes
0:08 Jam 1 Six Eyes in action
3:48 About this series and sequencer
5:27 Let’s chat about Crazy Chicken Six Eyes
5:55 How Six Eyes works
9:16 Creating a melody and variations
12:23 Benefits and tricky bits of Six Eyes
14:03 Separating pitch and gate sequences
15:23 Sequencing in Eurorack and some module options
16:50 Drawing waveforms with Six Eyes
17:42 Ending chats, realities of the world, poster design
20:11 Jam 2 Can ambient be fast?
23:34 Jam 3 Sounds like a clarinet with distortion
28 июн 2024