Modular at the ready, let’s fire up the pedalboard

Let’s explore integrating our cables, adapters, and ALM SBG module with a handful of pedals

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First let’s get setup. Take your modular signal into the SBG send input and patch the send output to the input of your pedal. Then take the pedal’s output into the return input on the SBG and the return output back into your patch.

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Send a sine wave from a VCO into a pedal and adjust the send level on the SBG so it’s just lower than where it distorts. The reason behind using a sine wave is that it’s pure and simple, so any distortion becomes obvious.

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We can use chorus pedals to create depth and make one oscillator sound thicker. Patch from the VCO to SBG to a chorus pedal and then on to the rest of your patch. Adjusting the rate and depth of the chorus will sound like multiple VCOs in unison.

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Rather than having a delay last in the signal path, try patching a VCO to VCF then into a delay and back into a VCA. This means we can echo our filtered sound but also cut the sound in and out by modulating the VCA.

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As the ALM SBG converts CV signals to expression pedal signals, we can use an amazing range of modular CV signals for our pedals. Try modulating the rate of an LFO and then using that modulated LFO to control parameters on your pedals.

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Try patching your synth voice out into a distortion pedal to thicken up your patches. Playing around with a pedal pre and post filter will drastically affect the tone, but also experiment with the dry/wet blend on the SBG to create parallel distortion blends.