Werkstatt Chaos (Noise Patches & Ultra-Low BPM)

The Moog Werkstatt-01 is a small & fun semi-modular synthesizer - I feel like its functionality is super smooth, stable, and precise - but that’s not what we always want. Even a system with nice ’guardrails’ can be pushed to generate noise-like waveforms and irregular events. I show some demos and hands-on patching. At the end of the video I discuss a 15 minute gap between sounds that I caught on the recorder - 15 minutes of silence - the Werkstatt busily doing it’s thing, quietly, until something “lines up“ right, gets perturbed, or such - and a short sound is made. Pretty fascinating. TIMELINE 00:00 INTRO Discussion of getting noise and irregularity out of a more-or-less deterministic synthesizer. note - I wasn’t really planning on making this video, so some of my early patch notes for these intro demos are a little hazy. I think all of the early stuff was based on: patching: lfo_out--vco_exp_in eg_out--lfo_in (at one point I added kb