GitP/A/Session/26/10/06-Tue

• GitP.26.10.06 — Chords, Formants, and Sequencers

  • A MicroFreak improvisation starting from an initialized patch: chord oscillators, cycling-envelope and LFO modulation, and a turn toward formant sounds. Shimmering textures give way to a gruff emergence, a ballpark organ, and a trippy denouement, with the Launchpad sequencer and MicroFreak arpeggiator along the way.
  • Open recording: GitP.26.10.06 — episode recording

  • Chapters

    • 00:00 initialized patch to chords

    • 02:11 pull back on cutoff

    • 07:44 shimmering glittering

    • 11:18 gruff emergence

    • 12:37 using the launchpad sequencer

    • 16:26 ballpark organ

    • 17:19 microfreak arpeggiator

    • 19:22 trippy denouement

  • Session Notes

    • Started on an Microfreak/Preset/Initialized, swichflipped to Microfreak/UG/06 Dig Osc/03 Types/10 Chords.
      • Tried to map the cycling envelope to the wave and other parameters. Later, mapped the Microfreak/UG/08 LFO to those.
        • LFO manual
    • Later on, invoked the Microfreak/UG/06 Dig Osc/03 Types/09 Formant for variety and low emphasis.
    • Early on, used Launchpad/UG/05 Session Mode/06 Production Controls/03 Tap Tempo to set it to 109. Not sure how much it ended up influencing the pulse on the Microfreak, which may or may not have been calibrated to receive tempo from Ableton/Live, but did use the Launchpad/UG/09 Sequencer just a bit at about 12 min 35 sec.
      • The effect wasn't especially musical; I just wanted to keep some pattern going while I adjusted the sounds on the Microfreak more.
      • I got a bit confused at one point, since Launchpad/UG/09 Sequencer/05 Pattern Settings and Launchpad/UG/09 Sequencer/02 Steps View look fairly similar, and the bottom two rows are actually playable pads in both. The main difference is that there's four lights missing in lower left half of Pattern Settings so as to demarcate that the third row from the bottom on the right side is a Launchpad/UG/09 Sequencer/05 Pattern Settings/02 Direction selector. I erroneously thought I was on step mode but I was in pattern settings mode.
    • I didn't end up recording any Microfreak/Preset this time.
    • When looking through the recording later, I made a few notes. AI transcribed these as chapters.

  • Downloads

    • Full-session MIDI — notes and controller changes

  • Recording

    • Making/Music/Log/26/10/06 Tue GitP
    • Recorded October 6, 2026, in Ableton Live at 109 BPM.
    • Chapter names come from the Ableton set locators; times are measured from the beginning of the recording.