Tips, techniques, and strategies to inspire your modular synth patches.
What is Patch Deck?
Each card in Patch Deck contains one patch tip, technique, or strategy. Here is an example:
Who is Patch Deck for?
Everyone interested in exploring synthesis and patching techniques can benefit from Patch Deck—and it is intended to be platform, brand, and module-agnostic. Patch Deck can be applied in Eurorack, VCV Rack, Serge, Buchla, Dotcom, Reaktor, Max/MSP, and Pure Data, among others.
What inspired Patch Deck?
Patch Deck was inspired by the culture of knowledge sharing within the expanding modular synth community. Discovery, happy accidents, and sonic ‘sweet spots’ are everywhere in modular synthesis. Patch Deck documents well-loved discoveries, off-the-beaten-path experiments, and favorite approaches to patching from a wide range of voices.
Why is Patch Deck a physical object?
Having a low-tech, screen-free, tactile object—a real, actual thing—is a joy, and an uncommon luxury. When it’s time to make a ruckus, a deck of cards is a handy (and analog) tool to jump-start the patching process, without interrupting your creative flow.
Improving Access to Music Education
Proceeds will go towards supporting aspiring music students in accessing grants, scholarships, and instruments.
Who is behind Patch Deck?
Patch Deck was created by Aaron Taylor-Waldman, a creative director, graphic designer, and electronic musician based in Northampton, MA. Patch tips, feedback, and support have been graciously offered from a wide range of voices within the modular community.
Arriving in early 2024.
In addition to being available to buy as a printed deck, a subset of patch tips will be released for free on the web. Aaron’s previous music education project, The Ukulele Chord Poster, was funded on kickstarter in under 24 hours. It raised enough additional funding to donate dozens of ukuleles to young music students at two public schools in the United States.
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