Baptism | Rings, Clouds Looping Delay, Field Recordings

Baptism will be featured on my upcoming split release with Mat Hill mat-hill.github.io
See how this track was made, including how I made my field recordings, by watching the archived stories on my Instagram profile -- @gregwht.
∿ P a t c h N o t e s ∿
∿ Distorted Chords ∿
Ornament & Crime quantises a saw wave from Batumi to a pentatonic minor scale, with quantisation triggered by Pulsar. Quantised voltage goes out to Rings in sympathetic strings mode. Rings' odd output is sent to Clouds, with the input gain driven to distortion. Clouds is set to looping delay mode, and low sample rate. The output from Clouds is multed and sent to two channels of Tone for filtering -- one low pass, and one band pass. These are combined and levels are adjusted using Tangle Quartet, then sent to Ableton via uJack. In Ableton the recordings are treated with Pro-R Reverb, Pro-Q2 EQ, and Pro-C2 Compressor.
∿ Saturated Strings ∿
Rings even output sent to Tangle Quartet, then Ableton via uJack. In Ableton the recordings are treated with Pro-R Reverb and Saturn saturator.
∿ Sub Bass ∿
Ornament & Crime quantises the discrete output from Chance to a pentatonic minor scale, with quantisation triggered by Chance's rhythm output. Quantised voltage goes out to STO, and the sub output is sent to Tone for filtering, before heading to Tangle Quartet.
∿ Field Recordings ∿
A collection of field recordings capturing frozen rivers and footsteps outside Ottawa, Canada. Recorded with a Zoom H5, and then processed using Fabfilter Pro-Q2 EQ and SoundToys Decapitator.
∿ M o d u l e s u s e d ∿
∿ Rings and Clouds by Mutable Instruments
∿ Ornament & Crime by mxmxmx
∿ STO by Make Noise
∿ Chance, Tone, and Pulsar by Qu-Bit Electronix
∿ Batumi by XAOC Devices
∿ Tangle Quartet by ALM Busy Circuits
∿ uJack and Buff Mult by Intellijel
∿ StrongPWR by MDLRCASE & Konstantlab
∿ Travel case prototype by me
∿ Performer series case by MDLRCASE
∿ Pro-R Reverb, Pro-Q2 EQ, Pro-C2 Compressor, Pro-L Limiter, and Saturn plugins by Fabfilter
∿ Decapitator and Radiator by Soundtoys
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∿ PERSONAL WEBSITE: gregory-white.co.uk

[@rjschrei]

This is an incredibly beautiful piece. Best euro rack piece yet!

[@outfaux7]

Love it! Awesome tones 😍 😍

[@AguaFluorida]

Glad I found your channel - great stuff, thanks!

[@SnoopLazeranake]

Beautiful stuff! Such nice tones in there too. Pretty blown away and inspired after this one.

[@garaughty]

I love those raw, raunchy tones of the intro !!!

[@martinwhile1607]

There's a sweet palette of tones moving through that track. Really, very nice indeed.

[@arthurcaplan9077]

yo i LOVE this... soooo rad. such a meditative setup too

[@bewildergoose]

This sounds GodSpeed as fuck. I reckon I like this one best. Nice one man.

[@WhiteNoises]

Cheers my brother -- that's high praise! Hope you're doing good

[@KrisztianNagyTodor]

Beautifull! Thank you

[@andresgrumann4079]

very nice, gracias!

[@justrogue2264]

Your videos are amazing! (Even if it's hard to find your channel) 😅 Keep up the good work! You honestly deserve so much more love.

[@WhiteNoises]

Thank you! I appreciate it :)

[@HumanMotives]

Super awesome. Gives me a Sigur Ros early days vibe. Interested in a tutorial where you explain how to get past Rings’ default sounding sounds

[@WiredSpaceWizard]

Excellent!

[@shoegazero]

very nice! It reminds me of the fennesz style.

[@joaopedronogueira4071]

Great sounds, as usually! :) I'm looking to get a recorder also for adding field recordings to my songs, would you suggest other recorder than the H5 or do you think today would still be the most balanced (price/features/sound) option for that?

[@WhiteNoises]

Thank you! I find the H5 to be a great balance between price, features, and sound for me. It has switchable mic capsules and XLR/1/4" inputs, and is super portable which is important for me. It is perhaps a little noisier than I would like, but I have to compromise somewhere! Still totally useable and I record pretty much everything with it.

[@sergelectric]

H4n is almost as good and way cheaper now...

[@AI-Heaven-Hell]

Great timbres! Is Baptism the title of the piece or the name of a eurorack module?

[@WhiteNoises]

Thank you! Baptism is the name of the piece, yep - though it could make a great module!

[@brycesnodgrass8373]

i wish that patch was the bass line for wolves by kanye

[@Montanacellist]

May I offer some tracks for you to experiment with?

[@WhiteNoises]

Sure! You can get in touch with me via my website. Looking forward to it, thank you!