Share your ER-301 Music

this is an album entirely dedicated to a great friend of mine who is a great influence for my musical evolution and is also helping me putting together my new sound lab (Ipostasi - Laboratorio di Fonologia).

it is comprised of 10 tracks in the field of experimental\abstract music. various processes and tools are involved,even some software. after years of almost hardware only i used some of my max patches and a couple of tracks make use of Berna, a great app by Giorgio Sancristoforo that virtually rebuilds the glorious Centro di Fonologia Musicale RAI di Milano, one of the greatest electronic and electroacoustic studios of the world in the late 50’s\early 60’s.
i use also a very low register bansuri flute i just built (Nodens) but the centerpiece is almost always the er-301 Sound Computer and some of the tools i made with it (especially Bengiolino plus, Ssb and the Fibophon).
in some of the tracks you can listen to the wonderful tape echo i just repaired and brought back to life, the mighty Korg Stage Echo SE-300.
enjoy and support independent music :wink:

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The 301 played a big part in all the songs on this album. It was the main mixer, live looper and stereo out recorder for all the songs, and for some I also used it as a simple synth voice.
Nerseq for sequencing.

https://music.apple.com/us/album/history-wasnt-everything/1480038402

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https://soundcloud.com/user-241721400/drone-301

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This is the first public thing I’ve made with the ER-301. It’s a generative melodic ambient piece with most of the sounds coming from the ER-301. Patch notes are in the description

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Oooh, love this. Excellent stuff! How do you keep everything in tune while adjusting stuff live? Impressed. :slight_smile:

Lots of other excellent contributions in this thread as well, by the way! :slight_smile:

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First patch I cooked up with @Joe’s XO instruments, which I will keep exploring for … a while I think!
Hold mode and XOXOXO :star_struck: Easy access to wild parameters, such detailed control yessss.

– I’m posting this in the main thread because maybe slightly off topic in XOXOXO Units - #2 by gnomedrone

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Thanks for the very kind words, appreciate it! Glad you liked it!

Keeping in tune? Well, just let it warm up, tune when warmed up and don’t touch the tune knob on the oscillators during the performance :slight_smile:

If possible, my digital oscillators are calibrated so that 0V=C with tune all the way CCW + I edited rings firmware so the frequency jumps in octaves in stead of semitones.

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Cool. Thanks for the feedback. I usually tune all oscillators to a C before I go as well, but there’s always some drift, it seems, or maybe I’m just crap at tuning. :stuck_out_tongue:

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A song idea programmed on my OD mini system. Still amazed with how quick easy it is to get out ideas with this thing.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0qQELQhVLX/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

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First thing i made approaching a song with the ER-301. Drums were synthesized on 301 and then sampled into single shots to save cpu. Synths are all saw or triangle through a bumpscanner, with the exception of the bass/guitar-like thing provided by Antumbra Atom. It’s humbling to sit in front of a patch and then realizing it doesn’t need you.

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Using about 1% of the ER301 here, I edited stems from some of my tracks and am I using the 301 to replay them, with fun internal modulation/eq as well. Very first basic steps with this beautiful module. The UI is really so good.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3h6nyrhGaH/

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a little bit dark / noisy bit / part of a jam featuring XXXXXX and Leslie emulation by @Joe

https://soundcloud.com/sukasurok/vtolk1

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That was fun. And a little disturbing. :slight_smile: I haven’t gotten any sounds like that out of XXXXXX yet. Nice work!

thanks! there’s also akemie’s taiko involved. XXXXXX is doing more “tonal” stuff. but sometimes in this recording i can’t tell one from another.
i generally tend to deviate into noisier territories so i rarely post my stuff to keep people safe :slight_smile:

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I was mostly kidding. I like noisy music as long as it’s assembled somehow. Come to think of it I don’t really share my bonkers noisy tracks often either though.

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The pitched glitch (lo/mid range frequency) is a single cycle scanning a whole folder of adventure kid waveforms under heavy modulation…

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I commented as such on your youtube channel, but I’ll say it again here, this is really very lovely, @a773 !

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Thanks a lot for the kind words! Really appreciate it!

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Lil ambient snippet with the ER301 running recordings from the Lyra 8 (the pulsing bass) and the Loquelic Iteritas Percido (with a makeshift phased LFO for modulation internally). Also Morphagene and LIP again playing.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3rP_KBh5M7/

edit :
Long er version here :

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