Module Rack Vol. 1
Orchestra and percussion for the Cascade studio. Eighty-five modules, every one numbered, all on one clock: strings, orchestra, percussion, drones, transport, a farmyard, a choir of chanting monks, a Turkish psych section, a desert, a garage kit, a German electronics bench and a Kingston yard. Retune the whole rack to slendro, pélog, gagaku, makam or Partch on CASC 104, then run the lot through the pedal board on CASC 105. Press Power on, then play the keys, tap the pads, or run the sequencer. Drones latch: click a key to start it, click again to stop.
Master
CASC 100 · bus
Tuning
Pedals
Live in
Input
CASC 106A guitar, a mic, anything coming into your interface. Pick Live input on any desk track and it records as its own stem. Turn Monitor on and it goes through the pedal board with everything else — leave it off and the desk takes it dry.
not connected
Monitor sends it back out of your speakers. On a mic that is how you get feedback — use headphones, or leave Monitor off and let the desk record it dry.
MIDI
CASC 107Play the armed module from a real keyboard. Arm a module first with its Keys button, then play — the octave buttons still apply.
not connected
Percussion sequencer
CASC 101 · 16 steps · click a step: on, accent, off
Recorder
No takes yet.
Mixing Desk
Assign a module to a track, arm it, hit Rec. Every armed track records its own module alone, in time with the others, ready to pull into a desk of your own.
No takes yet.
Woodwind
Breath, reed and vibrato
Brass
Filters that open like a bell
Tuned
Bars, bells and slides
Percussion
Skins, metal and seeds
Computer keys play the armed module: A to K are the white notes, W E T Y U the black, Z/X shift the octave.
Drones
Electric sheep and valves · keys latchTransport
Rotors, engines, rails and waterFarmyard
Formants and vibrato, no samplesVoices
Every one of these is a sustained vowel with the throat shaped by filters, and none of them is a sample. Latch two at a fifth and let them beat against each other.
Strings
Western
Put the Twang through Spring and Echoplex on CASC 105, turn Tremolo up, and you are most of the way to a desert.
Anadolu
Garage
The beats on CASC 1307 latch like the drones do: click to start, click again to stop. Everything you start shares one counter, so loops lock to each other however late you join.
Elektronik
These are deliberately dry. Put them through Hall or Dub on CASC 105 if you want the room back.
Yard
Start a drum loop on CASC 1501 and a bass line on CASC 1503 and they land on the same grid. The bass follows the tuning on CASC 104, so switch to pélog and the whole thing moves with it.
Every sound here is synthesised live in your browser, with nothing sampled. These are the same voices used on WBLX 2002 to 2006, ready to move into the Cascade studio.
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