Difference between revisions of "The Pattern Emerges"

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=Instruments=
 
=Instruments=
  
[[Image:The Pattern Emerges - melody + chords instrument - log spectrogram.jpg|thumb|right|404px|A note from the melody with its chords, showing tremolo]]
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[[Image:The Pattern Emerges - melody + chords instrument - Spectrogram.jpg|thumb|right|410px|The melody with its chords, showing tremolo]]
[[Image:The Pattern Emerges - bass motif - log spectrogram.jpg|thumb|right|404px|The bass motif, showing vibrato]]
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[[Image:The Pattern Emerges - bass instrument - Spectrogram.jpg|thumb|right|367px|The bass instrument]]
  
 
The piece is constructed of three voices: the melody, the chords and the bass line.
 
The piece is constructed of three voices: the melody, the chords and the bass line.
  
The melody and chords are played on something close to a sine wave with a 7.5Hz tremolo (a regular variation in the volume of the note) and the bass on something similar but with vibrato instead (a variation in its pitch) varying between 9 and 13Hz, where the variation from 13Hz to 9 and back repeats every 1.75 seconds.
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The melody and chords are played on something close to a sine wave with a 7.5Hz tremolo (a regular variation in the volume of the note) and the bass on something similar but without tremolo or vibrato.
  
 
=Availability=
 
=Availability=

Revision as of 15:46, 28 June 2016

The Pattern Emerges is a track on the Electrosonic album, almost certainly created on a VCS3 synthesiser.

Though the album has three authors, this track sounds like pure Delia.

Score

Score, typeset using Lilypond

Reverse-engineered from a spectrogram with piano grid.


Spectrogram

The Pattern Emerges - Spectrogram.jpg
Eight-octave spectrogram of The Pattern Emerges from A(27.5Hz) to A(7040Hz) at 100 pixels per second.

Instruments

The melody with its chords, showing tremolo
The bass instrument

The piece is constructed of three voices: the melody, the chords and the bass line.

The melody and chords are played on something close to a sine wave with a 7.5Hz tremolo (a regular variation in the volume of the note) and the bass on something similar but without tremolo or vibrato.

Availability