"Rain Lullaby I" - Fall Asleep to 8 HOURS of Ambient Sleep Music (Generative Modular Eurorack)

Summer rain pulls the green from the trees in the evening, pools in warm hollow lakes among the soft carpet of grass. Under the tin & plastic sheeting of the back patio, a baby slumbers against her father's chest. Go ahead and sleep awhile, my daughter. There's nothing that won't keep till tomorrow. A generative ambient modular synth lullaby composed for my daughter Luna's first birthday. Also good for meditation music, soundscapes, or atmospheric music for tabletop RPG gaming sessions like Dungeons & Dragons. You have a direct positive impact on NICU when you subscribe to the channel. Please, subscribe right now before you move on. Subscribe today so I have the confidence & faith to spend precious time making more new music. I know I can do it, and it's what I want to do with my life. But without your support and subscription, it just won't be possible long-term. Our beautiful baby girl Luna is the inspiration for NICU. She is relentlessly active, so full of amazing energy. And she never sleeps! I spent several days composing this ambient piece on my modular synthesizer with the intention of helping Luna fall gently asleep & find a deep place of baby slumber. And in fact, Luna does fall asleep when we listen to this ambient music together. It works pretty well on Dad, too. I find myself listening whenever I need a little help falling asleep. Turn it up - let the white noise of the rain and thunder sounds and the slow interweaving synths drown out whatever is bothering you. You deserve to rest. I bet it's been a hard day. Focus on the sound of the rain and let it in. Trace the melodies in your mind and let it in. Everything can wait until tomorrow. Nothing will change overnight, so don't worry about it. Sleep now. Patch notes: Composed on Eurorack modular synthesizer (14U 104hp) with specific intentions: 8-10 hours long, fully generative ambient music. Help baby Luna fall asleep. Be a birthday gift to my daughter that she can treasure all her life & know how much dad loves her whenever she needs comfort. Push myself to make the best ambient track I currently can. This is fully-generative ambient synth music, which means I didn't touch anything once the recording started. The modular synthesizer is entirely playing itself. And although individual elements of the composition cycle on repeat, there is no identical repetition within the larger structure. Each moment is unique. Nothing has been copy-pasted or edited later. Heavily inspired by Brian Eno's "Music for Airports" and "On Land" as well as Robert Rich's "Somnium." The rain was recorded on our back porch during a summer thunderstorm and loaded into a sampler for playback inside the modular synth. A stereo filter (Dual Dagger) shaves off some highs and adds resonant lowpass. Then a generous dose of Eventide Space Reverb on "Hall" plus some Zen Delay on low-pass mode. The rain gets some extra treatment in a parallel path through Rings and then into some additional reverb & delay. An analog synth sound comes from the E300 "pulse" output into the E440 3-pole filter. Batumi provides some vibrato, and the Bard Quartet + Beast's Chalkboard give pitch information. Additional filter modulation from Stages + Branches & Mimetic Digitalis slewed by Time Warp. A digital synth sound is from Chainsaw playing a slow 9-note Stages sequence with a bit of randomness, slew, waveshaping and vibrato. Using a comparator (Repression), the vibrato becomes more intense when the notes are louder. Chainsaw heads through Ripples 4-pole filter with a bit of drive, then into plenty of delay & reverb. The piano sound is the Disting EX "Soft Piano PedOn" sample, triggered by a very slow Keystep Pro sequence. Delay from the Disting itself, then into Eventide Space for more reverb. Mutable Instrument Veils is the mixer & VCA of choice throughout the patch. --- Eurorack Modules Used --- Acid Rain Technology Chainsaw ALM Beast's Chalkboard Expert Sleepers Disting EX Instruo Ochd Intellijel 1U VCO Intellijel Duatt Intellijel Multi-FX 1U Intellijel Quadratt Mosaic 1U Delay Mutable Instruments Branches Mutable Instruments Rings Mutable Instruments Ripples Mutable Instruments Stages Mutable Instruments Tides Mutable Instruments Veils Noise Engineering Horologic Solum Noise Engineering Mimetic Digitalis Ritual Electronics Repression Rossum Electro-Music Assimil8or Shakmat Modular Dual Dagger Shakmat Modular Bard Quartet Synthesis Technology E300 Ultra VCO Synthesis Technology E440 Filter WMD Time Warp Xaoc Devices Batumi Outboard Gear: Allen & Heath Zed-14 Mixer Arturia Keystep Pro Audio-Technica AT8022 Stereo Field Mic Erica Zen Delay Eventide Space Reverb Motu 828es Audio Interface Filmed on Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6k Pro. Rain recorded & filmed on location in Austin, TX. You can directly help NICU make more music & videos. SUBSCRIBE to the channel + COMMENT on the video. Add to your playlists and come back to listen again :) #ambient #sleepmusic #ambientmusic