A shoegazy synth callback to Le Soldat Pony's song Luna Comes to Me in a Dream. I've always loved it.

This is my first real try at recording something out of my rack that incorporates all the aspects of a patch into one take. This is a cozy type of song. There's a big blanket of reverb and distortion to hide flaws behind.

Patch notes, for my own recollection later:

4ms QCd clocks Mimetic Digitalis to play each row for four bars, which controls the Knit the plunky main line. The Knit (a Plaits clone) is on the physical modeling / resonator setting with its HARM parameter modulated by an LFO, which causes it to go back and forth between subtle plucks and big ringing stabs.

The bass drone is a triangle from the pico system 3 through an AJH Wave Swarm. All these are mixed with the guitar signal (amplified with the Plankton NuTone) and sent through an FX loop consisting of a Black Hole Symmetry (reverb + fuzz) and a Shallow Water (lo-fi pitch modulator).

The kick is a resonant LPF being pinged, and the hat is noise being gated by another LPF. Both are triggered by the Grids. The hat additionally has some stereo image created by a comb filter and mid/side processing. The comb also gives it a ringing quality. The hat cutoff frequency is modulated randomly, which gives each trig a different intensity.

The uClouds (Tall Dog clone of Clouds) has a frozen buffer of me playing the tonic chord of the progression. It's also triggered by the Grids, and the pitch is occasionally shifted +1 octave by the Grids accent output. Half the output from the uClouds is sent to the upper range of the Soundstage, but the other half goes through a sample rate reducer patched together out of the Mutable Kinks S&H with a pulse wave to control sample rate. The sample-crushed signal is then sent through a BBD (mixed 100% wet, no feedback) with its time being modulated by a slewed random. This gives it a little cassette wobble effect. That is then sent to the Joranalogue Filter 8 to cut out some of the noise from the sampling and BBD, as well as calm the tone down and give it a little resonance.

The whole stereo mix goes to an Eventide Space on the SIGURROS preset.