ACEcapism - 64 patches for ACE

[xh3rv]

downloadable here

Spent some time over the past week putting this together. Of course I think it's all great - it's a lot of fun when a patch falls into place, either the way you expected or not

A goal was a variety of stuff - usable, useful, inspirational, amusing, surprising, and I guarantee you'll get at least one of those adjectives satisfied or your money back [e: just kidding, it's free]

[mellotronaut]

i want my 0.002 cents back immediately!!!! Thank you very much for the 'stuff'!

[Gucky]

Many thanks for the patches!!! It sounds very good.

[emtear]

thank you for sharing!

[mcnoone]

Thanks a lot for these Andrew.
Will check them out after work.

[VSTJuNkiE]

Thanks! Being new to modular synthesis I'll take all the patches I can get!

[xh3rv]

Thanks a lot for these Andrew.
Will check them out after work.

Hope you like it a little bit as much as I liked your Zebra set and ZPC submissions

Thanks! Being new to modular synthesis I'll take all the patches I can get!

I'm sure I don't have every cool trick/technique for ACE figured out yet, a lot of experimenting and it's good to back up patches every once in a while ... sometimes trying stuff is beautiful, sometimes it's shit, sometime's it's beautiful shit.

[VSTJuNkiE]

sometimes trying stuff is beautiful, sometimes it's shit, sometime's it's beautiful shit.

Now there's a good one for a sig

[mcnoone]

Yea thanks for these, they sound good, and also helped me in learning some more about ACE.
Like the atmospheric type sounds, and snares sounded good too.
Thanks again for sharing.

[Bronto Scorpio]

I don't own ACE but thanks for these!

Cheers
Dennis

[xh3rv]

snares sounded good too

Heh, I 'cheated' on a couple of the snares a bit, maybe in an interesting way - I used a spectrum analyzer and held the peak reading of simple/clean snare samples to get a ballpark for that, and then tried to match it with ACE, fuse one part of the patch doing the membrane and one part doing the wiry snare stuff.

[bmrzycki]

I used a spectrum analyzer and held the peak reading of simple/clean snare samples to get a ballpark for that, and then tried to match it with ACE, fuse one part of the patch doing the membrane and one part doing the wiry snare stuff.

Those Minnesota winters can be quite long can't they?

[xh3rv]

I used a spectrum analyzer and held the peak reading of simple/clean snare samples to get a ballpark for that, and then tried to match it with ACE, fuse one part of the patch doing the membrane and one part doing the wiry snare stuff.

Those Minnesota winters can be quite long can't they?

There's actually a funny connection here. The reason I was using a spectrum analyzer was ...

I live in a building that was built in the '60s and changing seasons is hell on the plumbing. Apparently the weakest plumbing is directly above my unit. For a couple months last year as summer turned to fall I'd be getting these screaming loud water pressure noises every couple of weeks, any time of day or night, could be heard at least 4 floors above and below me in the hallways. It would usually take the plumber several hours to show up and fix the problem ... extremely annoying.

4 or 5 days before I posted this set I started hearing 'drip ... drip .. drip', like I left the kitchen sink faucet on, checked the bathroom - it was starting to slowly flood from above. Panic, trash cans under the leaks, literally run down 4 flights of stairs to talk to the front desk administrator, somehow got a plumber to show up in 15 minutes. I left the plumber (luckily, had tickets for a ballgame) and just got out of the building for a while.

When I came back, there were 5 fans like this aimed at plumbing behind drywall all over the unit and basically anywhere in the unit was a little louder than being inside an airplane when it's flying. The instructions were to leave them on continuously for 48 hours - not doing so risked permanent water damage. It ended up being just shy of 96 hours before the fans could be turned off.

In this situation, I mean I wanted to just get done with the patches ... about half the patches were mostly accumulated over time since ACE was released, half I did over a week or so before all of this, I only had two decent snare patches and wanted to fill that out a bit.

Getting started with snares using a spectrum analyzer this way was about all I could do. Plus as you can imagine I wasn't really sleeping well So, that's the (granted, pretty indirect) connection.