How I Built Ghosts – Modular Synth Patch From Scratch & Walkthrough

How I Built Ghosts – Modular Synth Patch From Scratch & Walkthrough
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Originally this started out as Sketches #128 0r Day 13 from my 30 day challenge. The piece began initially with a sound that caught my attention. While exploring my hard drive for possible samples to work with, I came across a recording I had downloaded as part of a sample pack from RE:VIVE – a project run by Sound & Vision, the national media archive of the Netherlands, which encourages the creative reuse of audiovisual heritage in new musical contexts. The recording was unnamed, but through investigation, I discovered it to be titled "Indian Kokyū", taken from Volume 8 of the Daitōa Ongaku Shūsei (Greater East Asian Music Collection), compiled in 1942 by Hisao Tanabe.
Though the title references the kokyū, a bowed Japanese instrument, the recording itself is most likely a performance on the sarangi, a bowed string instrument central to Hindustani classical music. Hisao Tanabe was a Japanese musicologist whose work focused on documenting the traditional music of East and Southeast Asia—an effort that, ironically, has itself become obscure or partially lost.
Ghosts is a piece built around that recording. The sample is first heard processed through the Morphagene module, where it appears faint, glitched and fragmented – like a lost memory surfacing. As the piece progresses, the sample becomes more intelligible, emerging into the present day. Additional modular layers are gradually introduced, responding as if in conversation. By the end, the recording recedes again, leaving only traces – ghosts of the past.

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