GitP/A/Session/26/11/01-Sun

• Infini Pad bass and 8bitfi

  • The Launchpad plays Infini Pad high and slow, then the MicroFreak keys turn it into a noisy bass. At 18:17 8bitfi takes over with key pressure, warbling and pitch bends over the looping pad layers.
  • Open recording: Episode recording

  • Chapters

    • 00:00 Enter Microfreak/Preset/259 Infini Pad

      • 00:00 Launchpad playing infini pad

        • Notes from GitP/Acolyte
          • Infini Pad arrives slow through the Launchpad, circling C4, G3 and A♭3 around middle C. A second voice joins at 01:28, and the phrases gather movement.
          • The cycling envelope's Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/02 Main/04 Cycling Envelope/Knob/Rise and Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/02 Main/04 Cycling Envelope/Knob/Amount shift; a few pressed MicroFreak keys between G5 and C6 and a touch of Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/02 Main/03 Analog Filter/Knob/Resonance join the signal.
          • Microfreak/Preset/259 Infini Pad · Microfreak/UG/09 Envelope Gen/06 Cycling Envelope
        • Spoken Words from Person/codekiln

          • 00:00 — Preset 259 Infini Pad.

      • 03:07 Envelopes, Fold and Noise

        • Notes from GitP/Acolyte
          • The main envelope's Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/03 Bottom/05 Envelope/Knob/Attack, Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/03 Bottom/05 Envelope/Knob/Decay Rel, Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/03 Bottom/05 Envelope/Knob/Sustain and Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/03 Bottom/05 Envelope/Knob/Filter Amt are reshaped, followed by the cycling envelope's Fall, Rise and Hold.
          • Fold and Noise sweep through the pad; a third layer enters at 04:47.
          • Microfreak/UG/09 Envelope Gen/03 Envelope Stages · Microfreak/UG/06 Dig Osc/03 Types/14 BASS

      • 05:12 Infini Pad as bass

        • My Notes
          • 05:15 - the bass comes in - Infini Pad works great as a bass if the Microfreak/UI/Oscillator/Knob/Shape is turned up so the noise comes through.
          • 07:05 - The minor seventh is a great bass interval.
        • Notes from GitP/Acolyte
          • Infini Pad comes down to earth: the MicroFreak keys sound G1 and the F1 below it. The Launchpad leaves its G3 to B♭5 range and carries the bass line on from 05:56 through G1, F1, D2 and B♭1, down to D1 at 07:16. Saturate and Fold move through the bass.
          • Music/Concept/Scientific Pitch Notation

      • 07:30 Filter-envelope sweeps

        • My Notes
          • 08:45 - the filter / cutoff adjustment, makes its warbly commentary.
          • This comes back later around 14:01 Whirring Thrum 14:01 - the whirring thrum in Layer A in a different setting against different backdrops that's an effective Technique reminiscent of but insufficiently described as an echo
        • Notes from GitP/Acolyte
          • The envelope's Microfreak/UG/09 Envelope Gen/04 Filter Amount sweeps while the Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/02 Main/03 Analog Filter/Knob/Cutoff knob stays put. Listen for the filter's warbling voice.

      • 09:02 The bottom drops

        • My Notes
          • 09:02 - the bottom drops
          • This section reminds me of Ecco the Dolphin; so stark. GitP/Light
            • TODO Ghost Gardeners import Ecco the Dolphin as a Video Game entity along with its history and who wrote the soundtrack. be sure to include a screenshot
        • Notes from GitP/Acolyte
          • One layer drops away as another take begins. The cycling envelope and sustain are reshaped, and from 09:30 the Launchpad repeats C3 and G3 over a bass that moves between E♭1 and D2.

      • 10:06 The quick pulsar returns from afar...

        • My Notes
          • 10:06 - the pulsar returns
          • 12:45 - so many moving parts
        • Notes from GitP/Acolyte
          • The envelope changes as the pulsar returns. Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/04 Icon Strip/Button/Spice and filter amount move, then the synced Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/03 Bottom/04 LFO/Knob/Rate shifts; a second layer returns at 12:16.
          • Microfreak/UG/11 Icon Strip/03 Touch Strip/01 Spice and Dice

      • 13:00 The long sky's cloud

        • Notes from GitP/Acolyte
          • Noise, Saturate, Spice and filter amount move together beneath the long sky's cloud. The cycling envelope and synced LFO rate are reshaped; Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/02 Main/03 Analog Filter/Knob/Cutoff changes briefly at 14:19.
        • My Notes GitP/Light
          • 13:00 - the long sky's cloud, the hair's blown face

          • 13:41 - pointillist emergence in Layer B

            • here we were using Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/05 Keys/Spice and Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/05 Keys/Dice
              • TODO Ghost Gardener definition requests - replace in the garden with references to the entity
                • TODO Ghost Gardener please fill out spice and dice keys as button entities, pointing to the equivalent parts of the Microfreak/UG.
                • TODO Ghost Gardener I noticed that we have a lot of noise in the Microfreak/UI/Front/Row part of the knowledge garden when trying to autocomplete those. Review the entities related to UI and, if it's not specified, further specify them so that if possible we default to an orientation that, when lexicographically sorted on disk, results in adjacent UI controls being placed "adjacent" in Lexicographic/Order. I want the UI to read top to bottom, left to right.
                • TODO define an art term entities for Point/ilism, Point/ilist/ic along with aliases (and if it's not clear that it's okay to create aliases from tokenized namespace pages to the untokenized version, for example Point/ilist/ic -> Pointilistic, then please make that clear in the entity definitions). I'd like to be able to easily get at all the places where pointilistic things have been referenced.

          • 13:50 - a cave of spectacles receives the formula

            • What works about this section is the contrast between the long pedal tones and the staccato movements.
              • TODO Ghost Gardener please define some term entities for music under Music/Term/Staccato, Music/Term/Pulse, Music/Term/Tone/Pedal (Pedal Tone) etc. try to be descriptive and give a sense of what they are. If possible, include some links to examples.
            • Remind/s Me of me of a certain piece of music - I think it's the organ piece by philip glass, "music with changing parts" -
              • TODO Ghost Gardener please create music entities for this piece of music and this person entity. If you can find one, include a youtube video entity in the page.

          • 14:01 - the whirring thrum in Layer A

            • The filter cutoff gets pushed up, and the hand-controlled quality threatens the rhythmic stability of this segment. It's an echo of 07:30 Filter Envelope Sweeps 07:30 Filter-envelope sweeps.
            • there's a Fugue like quality to this - not a fugue in polyphonic lines but a fugue in timbre, in the sense that "themes" are returning in a way that conveys compositional density.
              • TODO Ghost Gardener definition requests - replace in the garden with references to the entity
                • TODO add Fugue musical form entity
                • TODO Polyphon/y and Polyphon/ic musical term entities
                • TODO add Timbre entity

          • 14:45 - Layer B recedes while Layer C ensparkles GitP/Light/Low

            • There are parts here where there are large jumps. I'm not certain if it's that I switched to Microfreak/UI/Front/Row random mode with the Microfreak/UG/12 Arpeggiator

      • 16:22 Layer volume rides

        • Notes from GitP/Acolyte
          • The layers dip and return, pulling back the grid. The Launchpad plays its last notes at 17:53.
        • My Notes
          • 17:00 - pulling back the grid, washing the curtain
        • Spoken Words from Person/codekiln

          • 17:58 — All right, that was all preset 259 Infini Pad.

    • 18:17 Enter Microfreak/Preset/260 8bitfi

      • Notes from GitP/Acolyte
        • 8bitfi enters on the MicroFreak keys, with Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/04 Icon Strip/Button/Hold toggled just before C6 sounds. The opening phrase circles C6, E♭6 and E6.
        • Key pressure stays with the voice. In the saved patch it drives Fold fully and Saturate by about a third.
        • Microfreak/Preset/260 8bitfi
      • My Notes
        • 18:16 - 8bitfi starts
          • we actually first start to hear it
      • Spoken Words from Person/codekiln

        • 18:17 — Let's try this 8bitfi lead, 260.

      • 19:30 Old warbling

        • Notes from GitP/Acolyte
          • The live 8bitfi take enters as the second layer returns; two Infini Pad recordings keep looping beneath it.
          • Attack, Noise, sustain and decay move. The free Microfreak/UG/08 LFO/02 LFO Rate changes too; 8bitfi's saved square LFO modulates pitch.
        • My Notes
          • 19:35 - we first start to hear that old warbling sound, creepy

      • 21:04 Low helicopter

        • Notes from GitP/Acolyte
          • Notes from C2 up to B♭3 arrive under continuous pressure, starting on C2, while sustain and decay shift.
          • The saved matrix sends key position to Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/01 Top/01 Matrix/Button/Assn/3; Microfreak/Preset/260 8bitfi holds what is known about its destination.
        • My Notes
          • 21:15 - flippity low helicopter
          • 21:35 - question - under assign 3 (Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/01 Top/01 Matrix/Button/Assn/3) is the "move" destination
          • 21:45 - using some pitch bends to destroy the blanket
        • Spoken Words from Person/codekiln

          • 21:28 — I'm seeing that under Assign 3, there's the move destination. I don't know what that is. Let's try messing with it. It's under the key ARP. Huh. Okay, key ARP, Assign 3. Huh. Move destination. What could that possibly mean?

      • 22:12 High notes and pitch bends

        • Notes from GitP/Acolyte
          • Notes between A♭4 and B♭5 return, then Microfreak/UG/11 Icon Strip/03 Touch Strip/02 Bend stretch across the full range.
        • Spoken Words from Person/codekiln

          • 22:20 — So I was using a technique in there earlier where I exported, or I lowered the volume of a track before starting to record on it in order to take out the loop.

      • 23:30 Cycling-envelope reshaping

        • Notes from GitP/Acolyte
          • Rise, Fall, Amount and Hold reshape the cycling envelope, joined by filter amount and the free LFO rate.
          • Microfreak/UG/09 Envelope Gen/06 Cycling Envelope

      • 24:30 Repeated notes

        • Notes from GitP/Acolyte
          • Attack, Noise and Fold shift before E♭3 sounds in quick repetition, dipping to D3 and D2. Bends and pressure carry the voice onward.

      • 25:15 Pressure on the attack

        • Spoken Words from Person/codekiln

          • 25:15 — You know what, let's try making the attack modulated by the pressure. That could be kind of interesting. All right, Assign 1 is going to go to the attack. And I'm going to make it go up quite a bit so that if I hit it with a little bit, we get a really fast onset. But if we hit it with a lot of [unclear]… Ooh!
          • 25:50 — I think I'm getting some weirdness here in the OLED. It's like flickering. Might be the USB.
        • Notes from GitP/Acolyte
          • Pressure is routed through Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/01 Top/01 Matrix/Button/Assn/1 to the envelope's Microfreak/UI/Front/Row/03 Bottom/05 Envelope/Knob/Attack: a light touch brings a quick onset, a harder touch a slower one.
          • The MIDI captures the pressure; the matrix change is heard in the spoken commentary rather than recorded in the capture. Microfreak/UG/05 Connections/02 Matrix and Encoder/02 Assigning Destinations

      • 26:32 Closing fade

        • Notes from GitP/Acolyte
          • The three layers fade together into silence.

  • Recording and Prep

    • 26:40 · GitP/A/Session/26/11/01-Sun/Asset/Audio/Full/mp3 · Download the MP3
    • Recorded on November 1, 2026 in Ableton/Live at 120 BPM in 4/4 with the Novation/Launchpad/Pro/Mk3 and the Microfreak, using a new hand-made GitP template. Three MicroFreak audio layers hold the takes, with recorded volume rides and a closing fade. The commentary microphone track also plays in the mix; the commentary under each chapter is a machine transcription, and [unclear] marks a word that could not be made out.
    • Making/Music/Log/26/11/01-Sun

    • Presets

      • Microfreak/Preset/259 Infini Pad — 00:00 to 18:17. A paraphonic pad on the BASS oscillator with a slow attack; key pressure and the envelope open Fold and the filter.
        • Microfreak/UG/06 Dig Osc/03 Types/14 BASS · Download the saved 259 Infini Pad export
      • Microfreak/Preset/260 8bitfi — 18:17 to the end. A lead on the BASS oscillator two octaves up, with no sustain and a square LFO on pitch; key pressure drives Fold at full amount.
        • Microfreak/UG/06 Dig Osc/03 Types/14 BASS · Download the saved 260 8bitfi export
      • Both slots read the same after the session as they did on October 25, 2026, so they still hold the factory sounds, and the downloads contain those. The session MIDI holds the knob changes as controller messages. Matrix edits, such as the pressure routing at 25:15, are in neither.

    • MIDI

      • Download the session MIDI · GitP/A/Session/26/11/01-Sun/Asset/MIDI/Session/mid
      • "LPP to MF" holds the Launchpad Pro notes sent to the MicroFreak, from 00:12 to 17:53. "MF to LPP" holds the MicroFreak's own key presses, per-note pressure, pitch bend and knob changes.
      • Times below follow the recording. Control names come from Microfreak/UG/21 Appendix D - CC Values. With the Microfreak/UI/Oscillator/Knob/Type/BASS oscillator, Microfreak/UI/Oscillator/Knob/Wave (CC 10) sets Microfreak/UI/Oscillator/Knob/Type/BASS/Saturate, Microfreak/UI/Oscillator/Knob/Timbre (CC 12) sets Microfreak/UI/Oscillator/Knob/Type/BASS/Fold and Microfreak/UI/Oscillator/Knob/Shape (CC 13) sets Microfreak/UI/Oscillator/Knob/Type/BASS/Noise. No oscillator-type changes (CC 9) were recorded.