Riot in London - Monotron chords strings testing 11 feb 2018

Its quite a challenge to get musical aspects out of Monotrons due to the ribbon size, but if you mod it CV gate or midify them it expands their possibilties enormously. In this video, i am using the three monotrons linked up by audio with each other and running them into the MC909 audio in and the notes played via Midi keyboard then into a looper. Excuse the spaniel dog hair on the monotron. It gets everywhere. Its not my hair. I am attempting here to create sort of string and pad sounding sounds from scratch and treating all three monotrons as if it is one intergral synth with 4x oscillators. A lot of droning goes on however due to tuning and detuning of the oscillators, I'm afraid due to the nature of analogue synthesis in general. You can make several layers of sound on the looper without to much of a loss in sound quality. I finish it off using the pocket operator drum synth added. There also is a way you can re-route the looper into monotrons for refiltering the sound for more interesting stuff. A slow bulld up of layers and adjustments to sound is the main thing here, but all using the MIDI controller arpegiattor to get some notes out there. Then I can detune the oscilators into a chord then loop it. Layering can then continue. Some interesting screaming lead synth sounds can be made here as the sound slowly morphs. With this setup there are a of different combinations, so in a way making a small micro sized modular sort of system including adding ADSR and filtering, using the looper to automate some of these functions. I forgot to say about a small mod i did with these monotrons,and it was dispensing with battery power altogether and connecting them up to 3V mains adapters each one individually. Hence the wires leading out from the battery compartments.