Create your own Benjolin with Ritual Electronics Amnis

Описание: Before I ever bought my first module I watched a ‪@PerfectCircuit‬ video featuring ‪@sarahbellereid‬. She mentioned that she once had a “system” consisting of only a Rob Hordijk Benjolin and a mixer. This sent me down a rabbit hole of researching chaos circuits and shift registers and ultimately really inspired my entire modular ethos.

I didn’t end up following that path because I was concerned about spending that much money on a single giant module when I really had no idea what I was getting into, but the Benjolin has always lingered in the back my mind as an example of exactly the kind of synthesizer I was most attracted to.

I’m honestly glad I didn’t go that route because I’ve since learned that that I favor Serge style patch programming over large complex modules, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say the Benjolin has always called to me.

About a year ago I came across the ‪@RitualElectronics‬ Amnis and my first thought was “I think I could patch a Benjolin with this!”. Sadly it was out of stock at my usual sources and I just added it to the list of things to come back to later. Well, later finally came and I picked one up from Perfext Circuit’s Cyberweek sale.

I decided that the best use of the Amnis would be to revisit those Benjolin roots and build a tiny Benjolin inspired system in my ‪@4msCompany‬ pod. By combining it with my ‪@noisereap4783‬ Paradox and Anomaly as well as using Ornament and Crime clock division to bring one of the paradox oscillators down to LFO speeds, the Compare algorithm to act as the the logic circuit, a ‪@klavismodular‬ mult and some Tidbit Audio attenuators to distribute the rungler outputs around, I think I’ve assembled all of the basic building blocks a Benjolin requires. This created a sort of Super Benjolin with way more options for patch programming than the ‪@afterlateraudio‬ Benjolin V2 offers.

Of course I had to add in my favorite ‪@EventideAudio‬ Blackhole to create space and ambience in the end result!

Here are my first explorations of my patch it yourself Benjolin. I hope you enjoy the results as much as I enjoyed creating them!