ANALOG·77
The kick patch from the lesson, the one an ARP 2600 player wires in a minute: an oscillator whose pitch is shoved down by its own envelope, into a low-pass that the same envelope throws open, into an amplifier with a gate. Here the oscillator can also be a chaotic map, and the noise beside it is no noise at all. It is arithmetic, one line fed its own last answer, so it hisses like a transistor and repeats to the byte. Both go into the same filter, the way the cords go on the real panel.
After the amplifier sits a rack of three analog boxes, one per band, so the body can be bent on a tube and the top torn on a fold while the sub under 110 hz stays clean, and after the rack a guard that has no off switch: drive, a click on the front and a ceiling at −1 dBFS, so whatever the knobs do the hit leaves slamming. Then the part no hardware has: a seed throws a batch of 16 monsters, the same seed throws the same sixteen on any machine, a click loads one onto the panel and plays it, and one button takes all of them away.