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  Including tracks generated by 3 brainhack musicboxes:
  - beautiful OP-1-controlled eurorack patch from forgotten recording date and place
  
  - powerful atmospheric explorations of HAWK-800 (modded Korg EX-800 - thanks to Aleksey Bulygin who built this little weapon of mass destruction for me) passed through Sony reverb from 1991
  
  - glitchy FM improvisations on Sidrax, a really unusual masterpiece synth by Ciat-Lonbarde
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  Album tracks 1-2 are taken from mysterious 'long.flac' found some day on my HDD.
  No recording date or details (maybe it's not even my music? too cool for me) but some points I can 100% recognize:
  
  - randomized polyphonic melodies/chords were obviously generated with OP-1's Tombola sequencer which is about physics of bouncing balls inside the rotating hexagon. Balls were converted into notes using FH-1 by Expert Sleepers
  
  - sounds like tweaking of mostly generative eurorack patch but you can hear some notes played on MS-20 mini
  
  - most probable voice casting:
  ---- Verbos Electronics Harmonic Oscillator → Amplitude and Tone Controller
  ---- Malekko Oscillator & Anti-Oscillator → Dual Borg
  ---- MakeNoise STO → MMG (?)
  
  - overall sound is quite dark because of Pittsburgh Analog Replicator
  
  - chances are that was one of those patches where I used two Maths but who can verify now
  https://youtu.be/_ruqekqzGN4
  https://youtu.be/xnWZKcXl7VA
  
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  Imaginary Winds starts with flute-like patch which quickly mutates into a continuously morphing hybrid of winds and strings.
  
  Digital oscillators of the EX-800 synth are made of MSM5232 arcade video games chip. It can make 8 voices mixed to the single output pin. Interesting fact: although being capable of making only square waves, DCOs can generate an approximation of sawtooth using Walsh functions.
  
  “When you have the "square" waveform selected for the DCOs, the four square-wave footages are mixed together in equal amounts before the composite signal goes to the filter. However, when "sawtooth" is selected, the four footages get routed into an analog adder circuit that adds them in a proportion such that the output roughly resembles a sawtooth. We say "roughly" because trying to do Walsh transforms with only four functions is about like trying to do additive synthesis with only four harmonics.” -- http://sequence15.blogspot.com/…/how-korg-poly-800-dco-work…
  
  But HAWK-800 mod takes it to the new level. Complete feature list: https://www.hawk800.com/fullfeaturelist.php
  
  https://youtu.be/TuzOjAnsLZc
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  The power of HAWK-800 is in its modulation features.
  Four LFOs (including 2 SuperLFOs), 3 EG and S/H of many waveforms, modes and settings that can modulate each other! Virtually everything can be modulated with everything (with randomization) - surprisingly complex modulation matrix is hacking your mind.
  
  Original EX-800 could be controlled with one table of parameters (printed on the faceplate) while this nuclear weapon has two.
  With just one voice of SQ-1 sequencer, the thing is already like a headshot.
  
  But the true story begins with Sony DPS-R7 spacemaker, a humble one-unit reverb machine from 1992 that reveals new old universe. The device includes not just a single reverb but a small signal processing chain which can be configured to sound like a big and complex one:
  
  IN → pre-Effect → Reverb → post-Effect → OUT
  
  * 6 pre-Effects (Phase Shifter, Flanger, Stereo EQ, Exiter+EQ (mono & stereo versions) and gate)
  * 7 post-Effects (the same ones as pre- plus auto-panner)
  * 10 reverberation algorithms with lots of parameters inside
  
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