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Very special, quite a trip! Congratulations. Curious to hear what else you'll come up with.

Thanks for sharing. Quiet enjoyable.

Hell yeah!

😎

I love this use of 19edo tuning. It sounds so different, yet so right.

Plateau is so good, and your music is incredible.

Absolut Sahnig das Stück. ❤

Ab 2:00 hab ich TD Vibes ;-) 👍

NICE

Excellent!

This is really lovely. Great job!

I'm leaving this playing while writing code. It is awesome music to help me focus!

A few notes about the overall patch architecture: - The patch has no (conventional) clock. The "clock" is the first Benjolin Oscillator in the patch: --- Oscillator 1 is really a strict clock (no frequency modulation by the Rungler), but is less important and only used for two delay effects in the patch and as external clock input for one other Benjolin --- More important is Oscillator 2 that intentionally acts as a "bad clock": Its frequency is modulated slightly by the Rungler so that the clock ticks don't alyways have the same time distance. This clock is very slow, ticks between about 30 and 60 seconds, and controls when a new selection of voices is made. - The patch has 16 voices whose audio signals are created with various oscillators from Surge XT, Instruo and Befaco. Some of them generate tonal phrases, some are in the more noisy domain, or they are a mix of both. - Each of the 16 voices has its own Benjolin Oscillator with mostly multiple Volts Expanders and a Gates Expander. The Benjolin oscillator frequencies are mostly in the LFO domain (to avoid too much craziness and preserve the intended ambient atmosphere). How are the expanders used? That's exactly the point where the opportunities are truly overwhelming! Some expanders are used to generate monophonic or polyphonic pitch information, and some are used to provide modulation for all kinds of purposes, like wave table movement, feedback modulation, filter cut-off frequencies, noise modulation, envelope shapes, and so on. The gate expander triggers monophonic or polyphonic envelopes, or some of the audio oscillator directly, or it triggers the chaos or double clock flag of another Benjolin Oscillator, and more. - With each tick of the slow "Rungler clock" a new random selection of voices out of 15 voices is made. The chance of a voice to be selected is modulated very slowly over time. It ranges between 8% and 50%, with a modulation shape that prefers to stay longer in the low-chance region and goes quicker through the high-chance region. That might be very much a matter of taste. I liked it more for the ambient mood to have few but varying voices playing at the same time, and only sometimes have an increase in the number of voices. The overall impression of this setting is that the whole recording goes through a few slow waves of quiet music with only one or very few voices, sometimes even a few seconds of total silence, and more vivid and nervous interaction of many voices. - Voice 16 is special in that it's only playing if none of the other 15 voices is selected. It's purpose is mainly to change the harmony by playing one wave with the old harmony and then a second wave with the new harmony. In between, when it's silent for a second the harmony is changed. - Speaking of harmonies: Pitch information comes out unquantized from the Benjolins - the Benjolin Oscillator intentionally doesn't even have a Volts per Octave input or output -, so to create harmonic phrases it must be quantized. Quantization happens based on simple chords of four notes. There are 16 chords provided (minor, seventh and nineth chords), and the patch iterates repeatedly through all of them in a random order that is chosen when the patch is reset. (The recording is exactly one full iteration through all 16 chords.) There's no music-theoretical chord progression involved. Like mentioned before, the chord only changes if voice 16 and no other voice is playing, and only in the moment when it's silent for a second, so it's possible to have large random harmonic jumps without getting dissonant clashes.

tension chill music

Calming work, nice

❤

Good vibes! ❤

Nice

Beautiful! Is the patch available?

Wow, was expecting to focus on the beat aspect but melodically; very pretty. Lovely composition

it's been a very enjoyable listen, thank you for that

If you listen to the music you can consider to disable RUclips's "Stable Volume" feature. Click on the Settings cogwheel under the video, the first option is "Stable Volume" which might be enabled for you. I found that this feature is relatively new on RUclips Desktop (a bit older already on Mobile), and that it's in a testing phase, i.e. not every RUclips video on destop has this option. I don't know what it does exacly, but it appears to be a kind of automated on-the-fly (Re-)Mastering of the audio track with compression and volume gain or reduction involved. It might depend on the equipment you are listening with (headphones, speakers, also the room acoustics might matter) if you like the audio with the "Stable Volume" option enabled more or not. In any case, the original music is the one with the "Stable Volume" option DISABLED. For the particular audio here, you might need to raise your volume control (about 20%) to get the same loadness as with "Stable Volume" enabled. My impression is that "Stable Volume" messes too much with the dynamics of the music. For example the "ping" when the scale changes or the fluttering noise becomes very sharp in the high frequencies with a prolonged decay as if this remastering tries to keep it living for longer than it's supposed to be. Or the arpeggiators appear to be louder in relation to the ambient background. Also, the bass frequencies seem to be raised. Probably, "Stable Volume" is a good feature for all videos with speech or mixed audio sources. But I'm not so sure for music (especially if it has already been mixed and mastered with care), and not at all for this kind of electronic ambient with its wide dynamic range. But this is only my perception. I can imagine that other listeners like the bump it gives to the music. If you don't mind let me know!

This is nice. Some of the sound effects give a surround sound impression, even though I'm streaming it just to multichannel stereo (3 speakers each side). Very chill. Exactly what I needed at this precise moment, cheers! The description is cool too, I write similar ones for my music.

This is quite wonderful. And I appreciate you going deep into the technical details in the description text.

Love it

so amazing

tooo good

Very nice contemplative ambience!

I get to 3:42 and ... WOW. Very nice work. And the Venom Push 5 looks like a compact way to put lots of buttons in a patch.

beautiful cover of this title, the result is just incredible, especially if it's done by ear! I can't imagine how much time it takes to get close to the sounds and the great vibrations.

Ultra chill...

Very nice.

Amazing work! I downloaded the patch and it's running in the background while I debug code today. It really helps me focus.

More of this sort of thing 🙂

It sounds like a suspenseful film score! Very nice work.

Delightfully haunting (if that is possible). Great sounds!

This works well, thanks for taking on the challenge. I like your previous patches, too! 👍

Amazing composition. I love the complex rhythms and the intensity of the mood. I’m going to study what you did here. Great job!

Machst ja auch nette Sachen, geh mal in die vollen, wirst es nicht bereuen, Musik ist zum Teilen da