banalytic

experimental music & digital art

Category: music

  • Vsynth-Visuals in Ableton – Part 1

    Kevin Kripper, the founder of the Max/MSP package Vsynth, published the lectures from his Vsynth classes at the University of Oregon on Patreon a few days ago.
    Inspired by this, I revisited Vsynth after a long time and integrated my patch into Ableton 12 as a Max for Live device:

    The Vsynth-Patch as a Max for Live Device in Ableton

    Kevin provides instructions for this here:

    Unfortunately, there are problems using the Vsynth preset object in Ableton. Instead of the VSynth preset object, the following patch must be implemented (with the name of your json-preset-file):

    I then inserted “Envelope MIDI” to those samples in the Drum Rack which get triggered and assigned them to the corresponding parameters in the M4L VSynth patch:

    I also mapped LFOs and Envelope Followers to other parameters in the Live Set to add more movement.

    This creates very interesting audio-reactive visuals:

    Thanks to Kevin Kripper for this amazing package!

  • New album released: hybrid_undefined

    Today, after three years, I released a new album on Bandcamp. It’s called “hybrid_undefined” and contains a selection of pieces I’ve created over the past two years. They’re recordings of patches I made on my analog modular system and then edited in Ableton. For most of the pieces, I use the Benjolin from Epoch Modular, originally developed by Rob Hordijk. Serge’s modules also play a central role.

  • #jamuary2025 – serge

    I actually wanted to rebuild my rack and reassemble modules today. Instead, I started patching and came across some interesting sounds while jamming…

  • Release of ‘I Am Never Freer Than When I Am With You’

    Today the great album ‘I Am Never Freer Than When I Am With You‘ was released by ‘Then She Reaches For The Gun’, a collaboration of artists from all over the world launched by Mat Ward in 2021. Further information about the project and album can be found on the bandcamp page.
    It is a great honor and pleasure for me to be part of this project and to have contributed to the creation of this album with several weird, noisy, experimental samples from my modular system and with field recordings.
    Enjoy listening!

    Here is one of the unedited recordings that I made available for the album as an example:

  • fieldrecording pigments

    experiments with field recordings in arturia pigments. I won this software synth in a competition and unfortunately I use it far too rarely. A very complex and extremely versatile synth with an excellent user interface.