{"id":2205,"date":"2011-07-06T18:27:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T01:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2011-07-06T18:28:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T01:28:34","slug":"grendel-drone-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/grendel-drone-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"Grendel Drone Commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2216\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2216\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2216\" title=\"grendelDC\" src=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/grendelDC1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/grendelDC1.jpg 580w, https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/grendelDC1-290x143.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Of COURSE I had to get it in red.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hand-built one at a time by <a href=\"http:\/\/ericarcher.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Archer<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/ericarcher.net\/devices\/drone-commander\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grendel Drone Commander<\/a> is a two-oscillator synth built inside of a metal surplus ammo box. Its\u00c2\u00a0apparent simplicity belies its sonic complexity. I&#8217;m still feeling my way around the thing, but I wanted to post an example of what it makes possible. (Next step: Play with CV control!)<\/p>\n<p>This heavy, drone-y, smeary track was created using only the Grendel Drone Commander, recorded live thee times, each on a different track, in Logic Pro (with a few plug-ins as well).<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;http:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/18374428&#8243; params=&#8221;show_comments=true&amp;auto_play=false&amp;color=ee0000&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;81&#8243; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hand-built one at a time by Eric Archer, the Grendel Drone Commander is a two-oscillator synth built inside of a metal surplus ammo box. Its\u00c2\u00a0apparent simplicity belies its sonic complexity. I&#8217;m still feeling my way around the thing, but I wanted to post an example of what it makes possible. (Next step: Play with CV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,4,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}