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This episode explores a patch that really gets into a hypnotic state of consciousness with a drum sequence and synthesized formants. The effect is like a shaman singing with a drum beat. We look at how one can use the SV Modular sequencer and drum modules to create a pretty cool beat easily and then use the SurgeXT Delay module to add some echo-like polythmic action that is really trance inducing. As the idea evolves, we add the formant sounds from the Audible Instruments Macro Oscillator. Finally, we see how to execute the whole sequence with MIDI as a one note, one key groove.
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In this episode, Dr. Lawrence w. Moore shares a patch that he was working on to make drum patterns that were hypnotic, trippy, and just all out magical. The patch demonstrated int his video shows one some insights on making drum patterns for hypnotic or trance inducing purposes. The patterns can be varied using some parameter changes on the node sequencer as well as on the delays for the different drum sounds. The node sequencer from Sha#bang! is utilized to generate the drum triggers and the tuning of the drum sounds. The SurgeXT delay is used to create rhythmic delay patterns on the drum sounds. The drum sounds are from the SV Modular drum kit. VCV Rack has a whole plethora of options when it comes to making tripped out drum sounds. This is just one.
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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
In this episode we will look at a VCV Rack patch made by Dr. Lawrence W. Moore that has the sound of mallet tones being played in a pattern/pulse minimalist still with rhythmic variations. There are many ways to make this kind of sound in VCV Rack, but Dr. Moore elected to utilize the Node Sequencer from Sha#Bang! so that a collection of pitches could be selected and executed at different octaves. The Audible Instruments Macro Oscillator 2 is also used to generate filtered noise that has a pitch to it. This noise can then be used in reverb to sound similar to a mallet instrument. The oscillator generates a rhythmic flow of tones. This can be further shaped with the Befaco ADSR envelope generator. The panning is then randomized and attenuated using the VCV Random module and Befaco attenuator respectively. The resulting sound is an auto generating flow of notes from the mode or key that you select with interesting rhythmic variations in the minimalist pattern/pulse style.
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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
In this first episode of Wayfarer VCV Rack Patches, we are going to look at making auto generating sounds that grow and evolve over time. Such sounds can add an element of chance in music. They are always more magical when the ideas seem to come from themselves and do not sound regular or formulaic. In this example, we see how to use the Macro Oscillator 2 from Audible Instruments to generate noise particle tones that sound quite lovely and that emanate with a quasi-random nature. The rate of particle generation is varied using an LFo along with the particle length. The spread of the pitches that the particles cover is varied using the random module from VCV. This allows for the same module to control the length of an envelope which allows for the musical ideas to have phrasing and space in between gestures. The overall effect is a beautiful ambient sound that sounds like particles and bodies in space. This bears insight on how one can compose music entirely in VCV Rack.
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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
This session is best heard in headphones so that one can ebenfit from the binaural beating for a mixed delta and theta brain wave state. The session begins with light rain that helps one to relax. An ethereal melody, tuned to A 432 Hz is played and touches points the grow into frequencies that bear harmonic relationships to one another within the A 432 tuning system. These frequencies are offset to produce binaural beats of 4 Hz, which is the border between delta and theta brain wave frequencies. As the harmonics stack, they are reduced to a gentle, distant perspective in the rain so that one can benefit from their frequencies and beating while being sucked into the rain sound. Toward the second half, the 786 Hz binaural beating pair enters and nestles in with the other harmonics. The blending is reduced more until it become an ethereal glow in sound. The black screen provides comfort for relaxation, meditation, or sleep.
Links
The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
In this episode of Sound Design for Relaxation, Meditation, and Sleep, we look at how to make an even better light, steady, relaxing rain sound in VCV Rack. All of the modules used in this episode are free modules. The resulting rain sound is relaxing and light enough to be used for relaxation purposes. The sound design has a few different variable to it that you can customize for your own purposes. These different possibilities are shown int he episode. The heart of the sound generation features the Macro Oscillator 2 from Audible Instruments, the Rnadom module from VCV Rack, and the VCF and Reverb 2 modules from SurgeXT. This rain will be featured in Sound Experiment 014 for Relaxation Meditation and Sleep. Your feedback is welcome!
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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
The sound of running, flowing, or bubbling water is definitely a very relaxing sound that can be used in relaxation, meditation, and sleep. In this episode , we look at how one can utilize free modules from VCV Rack to make such sounds. Specifically, we will make the sound of a waterfall in a cave flowing into a bubbling pool of water. Along the way, we will look at how one can take the sound design in different directions to customize the sound for one's own needs. At the heart of it all is the Macro Oscillator 2 from Audible Instruments, along with the VCF from SurgeXT modulated by the random module from VCV.
Also check out the music of @TheMilangudzik
Links
The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
Now that I have been synthesizing bird sounds in VCV Rack, I think about the bird calls that I am hearing in the springtime. I'm not a bird expert, so I don't know what kind of bird this is, but ti would be a cool sound to make.
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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
Cricket sounds are very useful for any sound experience that is deisgned for relaxation, meditation, or sleep. The sound of crickets are one of those sounds of nature that have a natural rhythm to it that employs a slight amount of chaos to create a beautiful variation. In this episode, we look at how to make cricket sounds and how to vary the sounds in an umber of ways so that they can be customized. We try out different waveforms to allow for different variations of brightness, and we look at different ways of using the chorus and the reverb to vary the thickness and perspective. Of course, we look at the essential source and and look at the basic principles for making the cricket sound to begin with. This episode uses only free modules in VCV Rack to synthesize cricket sounds, so that anyone can make this sound!
Links
The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
Bird sounds are quite lovely and would be a great addition to the sound Experiments for Relaxation, Meditation, and Sleep series. In this episode we look at how to make bird sounds using only free modules in VCV Rack. Specifically, we look at making singing bird song. The result is quite realistic. We look at a technique first using the additive oscillator from Van Ties. As the episode progresses, we see how to accomplish the same thing using a standard sine waves, frequency modulation, and a chorus. A random generator also plays an important role int he setup along with a great sounding reverb from SurgeXT. Dr. Lawrence W. Moore guide you through the whole process and shows you what variables can be adjusted to customize your own bird sounds.
This endeavor was initially inspired by the work of Shames Kits: @shamskitz
Links
The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
In the previous episode of Sound Design for Relaxation, Meditation,a and Sleep, we looked at how to make a synthesized rain sound in VCV Rack. After the release of Sound Experiment 013, it was necessary to update that design and introduce a new approach tot he binaural beats. This episode shows how Dr. Lawrence W. Moore improved on his relaxing rain sound design to make it sound even more natural and pleasing. He Also shows how he changed his approach to binaural beating back to the A 432 Hz series of tones he used earlier, but with a new waveform for the tone with filtering to bring out some harmonic movement. He also shows how he made the ambient music for Sound Experiments for Relaxation, Meditation, and Sleep 013.
Please check out the music of @TheMilangudzik is is very beautiful.
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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
This sound experiment for relaxation, meditation, and sleep contains the ambient sound of relaxing rain, which is dynamic and has subtle changes throughout that capture the mind's interest such that it helps to quiet the mind. There are a couple of portions of ambient music recorded in A 432 Hz tuning that helps to relieve stress, calm the mind, and provide beauty to uplift the spirit. The musical sounds have resonating harmonics that shimmer and enchant the ears. Binaural beats are utilized for the latter two thirds of the piece in order to provide a delta brain wave state. The beating sounds resonate with harmonics so that the ears are not confronted with harsh tones, but rather changing soft tones that sound truly magical.
This sound experience uses a black screen for comfort. Please use headphones to immerse yourself into the sound and benefit from the binaural beating.
Links
The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
There is nothing quite as soothing as the sound of a steady rainfall. I have just released an episode of Sound Design or Relaxation and Sleep that shows how to synthesize the sound of rain using VCV Rack. Any interested sound designers should check it out. This will be a new element coming to the Sound Experiments for Relaxation, Meditation, and Sleep series.
Visualization is from the Project M preset library and is specifically, "Occulted by Orbiting Conglomerations of Tomatoes" by Suksma and Superprison.
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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
As Dr. Lawrence W. Moore's efforts in making quality sound experiences for relaxation, meditation, and sleep continue, we now take a look at adding a peaceful and relaxing rain sound that was requested by @AmeliaBodilia a little while ago. This video show one how to make a steady rainfall sound that is real axing in VCV Rack. At different points along the way, Moore shows how to vary the sound and go of in different directions to customize the sound. All of the modules used in this video are from the free community library and free VCV fundamental library. In other words, anyone can make this sound without having to buy software. Modules from SurgeXT, MindMeld, RPJ, Befaco, VCV, and Skuinky Labs are included in this video.
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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
This sound experiment for relaxation, meditation, and sleep derives elements from Robert A. Monroe's Gateway Experience recordings. The synthesized ocean waves are more realistic and help to regulate breathing and promote relaxation and a quiet mind. The harmonics that enter allow one to practice resonant tuning by chanting along with them. They are an expanded version of resonant tuning, utilizing 7 tones in harmonic relationship with one another. The binaural beating utilizes the same frequencies and beating rate as those used by Monroe. They are enhanced with the use of the harmonics that are related and exist within a sound fractal relationship with them. The rae of beating allows for a shift to the low theta and upper delta brain wave frequencies. Synth ASMR sounds of bubbling and dripping water are also included to help stimulate a meridian response.
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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
While we have covered some approaches to binaural beats (binaural beating) in past episodes, this episode will show a new/old approach to binaural beating that is more true to the work done by Robert A. Monroe in The Gateway Experience recordings. We look at the frequencies of the tones that were used and the beat frequency for achieving an upper delta and lower theta brain wave frequency. We also look at how these frequencies affect the harmonics also used in the Sound Experiments for Relaxation, Meditation, and Sleep series. The approach is to make the series of harmonics compatible with the frequencies used for binaural beating. Additionally, Dr. Lawrence W. Moore also shows some changes he has made in his synthesized ocean waves as well as synth ASMR prickle sounds. The prickles are becoming more like water bubbles and droplets.
Artist/Creator mentioned in the video: @AlwynOak
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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
This session is most effective when using headphones. The binaural beats should be heard with headphones to encourage the delta brain wave state. This session begins with Synth ASMR and an ambient melody to help provide a lullaby for the mind to bring it into a relaxed state. As the melody progresses, the ocean waves enter to help regulate breathing and achieve a sense of peace. Over time, the ocean waves gradually reduce and the listener hears soft noise and harmonics based on A 432 Hz. These harmonics transform into binaural beats buffeted with soft noise. A little ambient melody returns to help reduce any remaining internal verbal dialogue. Gradually, the melody subsides and a steady state of binaural beats with soft noise is maintained for the last hour. This sound experience is designed for relaxation, meditation, or sleep.
Links
The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
Determined by Whom is a trilogy of pieces that were composed in VCV Rack 1.6 utilizing simple patches that compose the music endlessly. Ideas and themes cycle through and repeat with variation and growth. The overlap and interlace with each other in different ways like a fractalization of a growing piece. In this way, the music comes to life.
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The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
One of the more popular techniques for aiding in relaxation, meditation, and sleep is ASMR. There is one form of ASMR that is called Synth ASMR that uses synthesized sounds to stimulate a meridian response. In this episode, we look at how this is done in the Sound Experiments for Relaxation, Meditation, and Sleep series. In this episode, Dr. Lawrence W. Moore shows his approach to Synth ASMR using some free modules for VCV Rack. This technique has become a regular part of the series alongside the binaural beats, ocean waves, singing bowl harmonics, and ambient melody.
Recommended Artists:
Mike Gourley https://youtube.com/@UCDQBr_WRvfnN4_YYQSTQ5PA
Alex Petty: https://youtube.com/@UCyIy4KUJ4noxdWBYLVpXsjQ
Alex Petty's Research: https://alexpetty.com
Milen Gudzik https://youtube.com/@UCLdChrd8X7QCAzglajnSiyg
Shams Kitz https://youtube.com/@UCaK0QXMXBLBzgjvGgwxzQYw
Links
The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
In this 3rd part of Determined by Whom, the intensity is turned up a notch. As with parts 1 & 2, this is a piece composed solely with a VCV Rack 1.6 patch that could seemingly go on forever. Themes repeat and interlace with one another without being exact repetitions. Variation and growth are part of the organic nature of the piece.
The visualization is from the Project M library. Specifically it is "Our Own Personal Demon" by EOS and Phat.
Links
The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
This second part in the Determined by Whom trilogy is a slower and more ethereal unfolding of the music. The piece is once again a VCV Rack 1.6 patch that can continue endlessly. The various themes interlace one another and undergo constant growth and diversification like the fractals of nature. The piece is truly alive and branches out as its patterning unfolds.
The visualization is from the Project M library and is specifically "Zion" by Phat and EOS.
Links
The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
This piece was composed entirely in VCV Rack 1.6. The patch is rather simple in design and does not utilize many modules. The heart of the sound is produced by the E-Series 340 Cloud Generator. A sequencer is used with an oscillating tempo to trigger changes in the ADSR envelope over the Cloud Generator. A number of LFOs are used to oscillate the delay parameters on the sound. The result is a piece that continues to unfold and change over time. It could literally go on forever if it isn't stopped. recurring themse arise with changes over time like a composed piece that continues to vary and generate. This piece is from the Living not Breathing series.
The visualization is from the Project M library and is named "Tunnel Chasers" by Martin.
Links
The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
This is a sound experience for relaxation, meditation, and sleep that has a black screen for listening comfort. It is most effective using headphones because of the binaural beats. The experience includes Tibetan singing bowl-like harmonics, synthesized ocean waves, an ambient melody, synth ASMR to stimulate a meridian response, and binaural beats to encourage a delta brain wave state. The experience begins with the synthesized singing bowl harmonics and a similar sound performing an ambient melody that is quite uplifting and designed to take the thinking mind for a a walk to calm it down. The ocean waves gradually enter and the melody soothes the mind. As the melody ends, the ocean waves gradually fade tot he distance and allow a soft noise to take the foreground. The sound is like being in a cave near the ocean with the synth ASMR providing crystal-like prickles. The binaural beats enter and the meditation or sleep can begin proper for the remaining half hour of the session. All of the tones, harmonics, and melody are based upon A 432 tuning.
Links
The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
In this episode, we see how Dr. Lawrence W. Moore uses VCV Rack to make synthesized Tibetan singing bowl harmonics in his Sound Experiments for Relaxation, Meditation, and Sleep. He shows how the module settings are designed to emphasize moving harmonics that have a similar modulation to the Tibetan singing bowls. He also shows how to tune some modules in VCV Rack to A 432 Hz to take advantage of that tuning system. He shows what is coming up in the next sound experiment so that the audience can provide feedback about how the different techniques utilized affect their experience.
Please check out:
@AlexPettyMusic
@mikegourley411
Alex Petty's Research: https://alexpetty.com
Links
The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
The Wayfarer project is releasing a new series called "Wayfarer Music Making," which will cover Dr. Lawrence W. Moore's music making process when composing new Wayfarer music. Wayfarer combines elements of electro-acoustic, electronic music, experimental music, and ambient music.
Links
The Wayfarer Project Website: https://thewayfarerproject.com
The Wayfarer Project (Music channel): https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerproject
The Wayfarer Project Learning: https://youtube.com/@thewayfarerprojectlearning
The Wayfarer Project Adventures: https://youtube.com/thewayfarerprojectadventures
The Wayfarer Project is the home of Wayfarer music and Dr. Lawrence W. Moore's tutorials in synthesis, sound design, audio production and multimedia art.