Microfreak & LYRA 8 - Wiimote melodies

Experiment with using a wiimote to play melodies on the microfreak

Microfreak in paraphonic mode with oscillator set to superwave playing sine waves. Cycling envelope adds 30% detune on about a 15 second loop. No other modulation. Microfreak receives Midi data from the wiimote via Osculator with A button sending midi notes where the pitch is defined by the roll motion axis position. The resulting midi note is then run through Ableton's midi filter utility effectively quantizing the wiimotes pitch output, which in this case is set to C Dorian scale.

The Wiimote D-pad directions are all mapped to CC 92 Arp Rate (sync) as momentary switches sending different discrete CC values to play different rhythmic subdivisions when the arpeggiator is engaged. Ableton sends an 85bpm sync signal via midi to the microfreak.

Right plays quarter notes (value 32), left plays eighth notes (value 64), up is eighth note triplets (value 48), and down is sixteenth triplets (value 80). If no direction is pressed the arpeggiator plays whatever value is defined by the user interface, in this case whole notes. The D-pad actually behaves in a really cool way where when you press a direction it latches that subdivision until the next downbeat, making it really easy to build modular quantized rhythms.

Microfreak is also running through Source Audio nemesis delay in diffuse mode, and Eventide Space in Hall mode.The software I’m using for the wiimote is called osculator. Versatile and fun midi / OSC routing tool for MacOS.
https://osculator.net/

 Lyra 8 tuned to (C G C G) + (Eb G C G)

Low voices are bass roots in octaves, and the upper voices are the rest of the root triad spread out a bit. Some delay for rhythmic texture and a little drive for bite.


Audio recorded direct into iPhone XR via iConnectAudio4+ interface

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