Radio Music Patch Recipes

Random Beatbox

Ingredients

• Radio Music
• Turing Machine
• Turing Machine Pulses Expander
• Some clock source
• An oscillator
• Two channels of LPG / Vactrol Filter (QMMG, Optomix, MMG)

Method

• Preparation
  • The Radio Music settings file should include: MUTE=0 (for a fast response) StartCVImmediate=1 (so CV changes immediately retrigger the sample without waiting for a reset pulse)
• Create a basic kick and snare pattern
  • Patching the Oscillator and the Turing white noise output to the audio inputs on two LPGs, with the outputs going to your output mixer
  • Trigger the white noise with the 1 output on the Pulses expander, with the the 1+2 output going to the oscillator channel
  • Adjust the oscillator frequency and the Turing Machine pattern until you have a rough groove
• Build the random beatbox
  • Patch the Turing Machine output to the Radio Music START input, with the Radio Machine output going to your output mixer. Set the little Turing machine output level control to about 9 o'clock.
  • Choose a drum loop bank on the Radio Music and adjust Station and Start knobs until you get something good

Extra Sauce

• Run the output through a Music Thing Spring Reverb. Patch the 2+4 output into a Maths channel, or other envelope generator. Send that envelope to the CV control input, for random, looping, tempo-synced reverb depth changes.
• It's even more fun with non-drum samples

Fake Timestretch

Ingredients

• Radio Music
• Squarewave oscillator
• Maths or other AD envelope

Method

• Preparation
  • Use a short sample - one of the drum loops is a good place to start. All samples are divided up into 1024 or fewer slices (start points) - on a long sample, those slices are too large for this trick.
  • Use the following settings in settings.txt: MUTE=0 | DECLICK=0 | ChanPotImmediate=1 | ChanCVImmediate=0 | StartPotImmediate=0 | StartCVImmediate=0 | StartCVDivider=2 | Looping=1
• Set the Start pot to 7 o'clock
• Put the squarewave oscillator into Reset so you get fast repeated hits
• Connect channel 1 or 4 of a Maths, main output, to Start
  • Tweak Rise, Fall,output scale and oscillator frequency until you get something cool. Start with output scale at 2 o'clock. Set the shape to LIN. With Rise up and Fall on zero, the file will go forwards. The other way, it will go backwards.
• DEMO VIDEO

Extra Sauce

• Everything in the patch is CV controllable - direction, sample speed (oscillator frequency) etc.

Radio Music Drum Machine

This video from Voltage Control Lab explains how to use your Radio Music as a drum machine.