Patching Make Noise René V1 as Buchla Easel-style Chromatic Keyboard Arpeggiator

The Make Noise Shared System can be patched as an easel-style keyboard arpeggiator with Pressure Points and Rene V1. The patch works by combining James Cigler’s touch sequencer patch with a little bit of programming and extension with Presure Points to add octave shifts and other performance controls.

Rene Settings

• Access page: turn all locations off
• X gate page: turn all gates off
• X fun page: enable SNAKE
• X fun page: enable G+MOD
• Q page: enable all 12 pitches for chromatic control. Program so that each step increases by one semitone. Optionally you may want to program it in a certain key to have 2 octaves range on a single page or whatever other configuration you desire.

The Patch

• CLOCK => XCLK
• CLOCK => XMOD
• QCV => DPO v/Oct.
• G-X => Optomix STRIKE
• Pressure points ROW 2 => DPO EXPO input: tune it such that each of the 4 pressure points steps increases by one octave. Combined with the Rene semitone settings, this gives chromatic control over 4 octaves.

Further Explorations

With the basic patch set up, it’s fun to arpeggiate chords, but since so much of Pressure Points remains unused, there are lots of ideas left to explore.

• Use another row of pressure points to control clock rate.
• Use pressure output for CV of clock rate or timbral control of DPO.
• Use common gate output of pressure points to clock Wogglebug.
• Use common gate to jumble Tempi.