Xaoc Drezno as a rhythm-pattern generator

Xaoc Drezno + Quadrax / Berlin + Jena osc. sounds

The design of the patch

How it works

I checked the patch but sometimes I do mistakes - let me know.

The patch : a single slow sine or triangle waveform from Pamela’s Pro Workout is digitised by Drezno into evolving gates that trigger Quadrax envelopes while Jena reshapes the same data to colour Berlin’s oscillator, producing self-related kick, bass, melody and snare without a sequencer. Afterwards I overdubbed airy pad layers in Ableton to surround the modular groove with extra harmonic atmosphere.

• Intro (1.)
  Same patch on whole track but at start I use Trigger 3 on the Quadrax, set to Burst mode. The burst output is patched into the FM 1 input on the Polaris filter, which drives the filter’s cutoff at audio-rate speed and produces a very harsh, metallic texture.

• Main Track (2.)
  For the main passage I move the cable: instead of feeding Polaris with Quadrax Envelope 3 burst, I plug in normal AD Envelope 2 to the FM 1 input.
  This swaps the bursty modulation for a more regular envelope, giving the filter a smoother, more musical sweep while the track plays.

To go deeper on Xaoc Berlin and Jena and others Leibniz Subsystem check at amazing videos from Tom Churchill videos and Monotrail Tech Talk tutorials about leibniz s

More detail about sequencing all that stuffs :

Track Speed: 110 BPM
Track Key: F.

Sequencing : Drezno the rythmic generator
Pamela outputs a shapeshifting control waveform that Drezno slices into rhythmic triggers, and those triggers drive every Quadrax envelope—kick, snare, and filter sweeps—so a single knob-twist on Pamela can totally reshape the groove. Meanwhile Pamela’s clock and quantised pitch keep the bass line solid, and a fast divided clock tickling the snare VCA sprinkles in a delicate, percussive flutter.

Kick & Bass & Melodies
Pamela supplies pitch, table-scan CV and quadrax snappy opening filter to smooth rhythmically the sounds; Berlin + Jena turn all that into a morphing wavetable voice whose character flips from buzzy to sine-like when you jump from table 6 to table 7.

Snare
Snare sound come from the Jena Outputs. As it takes the notes from Berlin, the snare is colored.

Velocity
To introduce more velocity variation, I send an S&H CV into Quadrax to control the envelope decay.

FX
I used the chorus mode with the Intellijel Multi-FX with send & return to have more stereo on the Berlin Kick and Bass sound.

Production
Stereo outputs from the Palette go into the Expert Sleepers ES-9 and then into Logic Pro for mixing, where I use Valhalla Supermassive and EQ.
I use homemade pads with ableton using serum, meld and operator. I also add sub with operator

Pamela’s Patch

(B memory)

Modules used :
ALM Busy Circuits Pamela's PRO Workout
ALM Busy Circuits Mega-Tang
ALM Busy Circuits Axon-2
Doepfer Dual VCS A-150
Intellijel Quadrax
Intellijel Polaris - filter for BERLIN
Intellijel Multi-FX - stereo chorus fx to add stereo on the melodies
Intellijel Palette 104HP multiples
Mosaic Sample & Hold - enveloppes velocity
Ritual Electronics Krach - feed the S&H
Xaoc Berlin (kick and bass)
Xaoc Jena (snare)

Thanks !

TO GO DEEPER ON XAOC DEVICES :
Amazing Tom Churchill videos and Monotrail Tech Talk tutorials about leibniz subsystem.