Roland vs ALM sketch: Squid looper grabbing Pam controlled 303

This video demonstrates using the ALM Pamela’s New Workout to start a Roland TR606 drum machine, a bassline sequenced on a Roland SH101, it also is patched to control the pitch, note length (gate) and filter of a Roland TB303, and a Squid Salmple eurorack module set up as a random ‘looper’ which will be sampling sounds from the synths and drum machine. The sampling of sounds into the looper is triggered through settings in the Pamela’s New Workout, this sampling has a 25% chance of happening due to how the triggers are set up. There are 8 separate sample channels in the Squid, three have pitch-playback control, also controlled by the Pamela’s New Workout.
The synth sounds are fed through a BOSS BX8 mixer, with the effects Send 1 sending the sound to the Squid for sampling/looping. The looped sounds are then sent via a Alesis Quadraverb to add reverb.
This short experiment combines the use of 1980s Roland synthesizers & a drum machine, alongside an era-appropriate compact audio mixer and effects unit. The eurorack modular synthesizer elements are much more contemporary, though are based on older music technology ideas: the Pamela’s New Workout provides numerous clocks, triggers and waveforms - a fundamental of modular synthesis, this module is paired with an ‘expander’ which takes a tempo signal and converts it into a pre-MIDI synchronisation clock pulse used to run the TR606 drum machine in time. The Squid Salmple is based on late 1980’s to mid 1990’s Akai hardware samplers such as the S950 and S3000XL, much used in early electronic dance music.

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