GitP/A/Session/26/10/26-Mon

• NoiseBusters, Fight and TaBass

  • A Ghost in the Patch session with three MicroFreak factory presets in layered takes: NoiseBusters opens as a hall of mirrors, Fight comes in as a lead with pad pressure, and TaBass enters near the end as a little thumper, with cycling-envelope and filter sweeps throughout.
  • Open recording: Episode recording

  • Recording

    • 16:06 · GitP/A/Session/26/10/26-Mon/Asset/Audio/Full/mp3 · Download the MP3
    • Recorded on October 26, 2026 in Ableton/Live at 120 BPM in 4/4 and mixed the next morning. Three MicroFreak audio layers play through the main mix with modest reverb and delay sends and a slow ride on the main output level; the commentary microphone is left out of the mix.
    • codekiln wrote the poem in the sip column of Bean 2026-10-27 · Beans while mixing this recording.
    • Select a chapter timestamp to play from that point.

  • Setup

    • The audible parts are three takes of the MicroFreak, each on its own audio track with a matching MIDI capture. A further full-length take of the MicroFreak's audio and MIDI is kept in the set as a muted reference.
    • My Notes
      • I've been using Ableton all wrong. During this session I realized I could use Session View to record, or I could use Arrangement Record to record clips and their playback in Session View. That was really fun, and I'm going to use it going forward. Ableton/Live/UG/19 Recording New Clips/03 Recording/02 Recording Into Session Slots · Ableton/Live/UG/19 Recording New Clips/03 Recording/01 Recording Into the Arrangement · Ableton/Arrangement View/Q/Can I record in Arrangement View while playing Session View clips?
      • The next morning I did a little ideation with AI about declaring a template for an Ableton set in this garden: Ableton/Live/Idea/Declare a Live Set in Logseq.

  • Presets

    • Microfreak/Preset/119 NoiseBusters — Keys, Noise oscillator, paraphonic. Download the saved slot 119 export
    • Microfreak/Preset/118 Fight — Lead, Chords oscillator. Download the saved slot 118 export
    • Microfreak/Preset/123 TaBass — Bass, V.Analog oscillator. Download the saved slot 123 export
    • All three saved slots matched their factory sounds when read after the session, so the knob changes heard here were not saved. The .mfpz exports use Elektroid's format; restoring them in MIDI Control Center has not been tested.

  • MIDI

    • Download the session MIDI · GitP/A/Session/26/10/26-Mon/Asset/MIDI/Session/mid
    • Times below follow the recording. Control names come from Microfreak/UG/21 Appendix D - CC Values. What the Wave (CC 10), Timbre (CC 12) and Shape (CC 13) knobs do depends on the oscillator: with Noise they change the noise character, with Chords Wave selects the chord, and with V.Analog Wave sets detune. No oscillator-type changes (CC 9) were recorded.

  • Chapters

    • 00:00 Introit

      • NoiseBusters plays from its saved settings; no controller changes are recorded in this passage.
      • Microfreak/Preset/119 NoiseBusters · Microfreak/UG/06 Dig Osc/03 Types/13 Noise
      • My Notes
        • Hall of Mirrors.

    • 01:49 Cycling-envelope rise and cutoff

      • Cycling envelope rise (CC 102) and cutoff (CC 23) start moving together at 01:49. Cycling envelope amount (CC 24) joins at 02:34.
      • Microfreak/UG/09 Envelope Gen/06 Cycling Envelope · Microfreak/UG/07 Filter/01 Modifying Sound/04 Cutoff Frequency
      • My Notes
        • Around 02:20: clap echo entrance.

    • 03:03 Filter and oscillator controls

      • The busiest stretch for both notes and knobs. Cutoff sweeps run throughout; attack (CC 105) changes from 03:05, Wave, Timbre and Shape from 03:11, and resonance (CC 83) from 03:19. Cycling envelope rise changes again from 04:37.
      • Microfreak/UG/07 Filter/01 Modifying Sound/05 Resonance · Microfreak/UG/09 Envelope Gen/03 Envelope Stages

    • 07:01 Preset 118 Fight

      • Fight comes in as a lead. No knobs move here; the movement comes from pad pressure, which the saved preset routes to cutoff.
      • Microfreak/Preset/118 Fight · Microfreak/UG/06 Dig Osc/03 Types/10 Chords · Launchpad/UG/10 Setup/04 Aftertouch Settings

    • 07:51 Envelope timing and oscillator changes

      • Cycling envelope rise and fall (CC 103) change from 07:51. From 08:17, attack, filter amount (CC 26) and Timbre change, and Wave changes almost continuously from 08:22. On the layer playing Fight, Wave sets the chord type and Timbre its inversion.

    • 09:08 Cycling envelope and filter interplay

      • Cycling envelope rise changes first, then Timbre from 09:31. Amount, hold (CC 28), fall, attack, resonance and cutoff follow between 09:50 and 10:00, and Wave from 10:07. After 10:10, notes continue without new controller changes.
      • Microfreak/UG/09 Envelope Gen/06 Cycling Envelope/02 Changing Shapes

    • 12:55 Preset 123 TaBass entrance

      • TaBass enters on its saved settings; no controller changes are recorded until 14:05. Its looping cycling envelope and main envelope both open the filter on each note.
      • Microfreak/Preset/123 TaBass · Microfreak/UG/06 Dig Osc/03 Types/06 VAnalog
      • My Notes
        • A little thumper.

    • 14:05 Final control sweeps

      • Cycling envelope rise, hold, fall and amount, attack, cutoff, resonance and Wave all change in these 23 seconds; hold changes most often.

    • 14:28 Formant whackiness

      • Timbre changes almost continuously, with Wave, cycling envelope rise and attack alongside it. With V.Analog, the oscillator TaBass uses, Timbre sets Shape, which runs from narrow pulse through full square to hard-sync formants.
      • Microfreak/UG/06 Dig Osc/03 Types/06 VAnalog
      • My Notes
        • Formant whackiness.

    • 15:26 Closing passage

      • The passage recorded at the start of the session plays as the ending, without new controller changes.