User Posts

One Oscillator, the STO from MakeNoise, I'm finally getting around to using the S-Gate which drives the acid line triggered by the Noise Engineering Bin Seq so can control the pattern on the fly, the Sub of the STO goes into the ReBach VCF-AB which turns anything into dirty acid synth! The Tri output of the STO goes into Monsoon Clouds for a nice wash of sound, then the Sine output of the STO heads into the DannySound #Timbre for some subtle wavefolding before it hits the Make Noise Mimeophon which is clocked.
The nice little blippy filter sweeps come from the FrequencyCentral Boom!
Hope you enjoyed, and thanks for listening / Watching.

Yeah its definitely in there @farkas its currently doing some hi perc stuff via the ADDAC103 and triggering a synth line. I don't always hit it with CV though and just tweak it manually to find a nice pattern.

I have a https://www.modulargrid.net/e/dnipro-modular-dot-black-panel which is a really simple Euclidean trigger sequencer with CV control. Its nice to use for incidental percussion that flutters around the main percussion and with the CV you can make it change over time.

I find as soon as I integrate any module within 3-4 rows of other modules then almost no module has any ergonomics.
Maybe if all you had was one long row of Mutable Instruments gear ;-)

If all manufacturers did the following and users planned their modular this way:

Users only ever to have VCO's at Top, Filter / VCA below / mixing & effects below.
...then...
Manufacturers have VCO output at the bottom of the modules, filter and VCA inputs at top with outputs at bottom, then effects and mixing all having inputs and outputs at top.

Any module less than 3hp would be Banned and only Blank Gap-fillers allowed.

If its any help, It might not be, I've thrown loads of modules at my 2x uZeus Power modules with the standard power bricks and they perform admirably.
I was considering selling them as I upgrade my Konstantlab setup but I'll probably keep them for later skiff or small case builds cos they do take a lot of sh!t without complaining. :)

EDITED Mar 15th 2022, 07:54

Hey thanks! What was your favourite moment?
-- brunomolteni

I'd go for the filter tweaks and the lovely twinkly finish.

Nice work :) Which version of your rack was this with?

and thanks @farkas I'm finding a kick made with a ADSR has more scope for sound shaping thought the simple decay on the Patching Panda Punch works well enough.

Just keep the percussion in another rack like I am.... I'm sure that will help how far down the rabbit hole you go! ;-)

Really nice work dude :)

Making my own Kick in this from Befaco Even VCO sine and Patching Panda Punch.

The new toy in the mix is the SSF Vortices Mixer, so there are a couple of LFO panned mono parts, the bass line is panned before going into Mimeophon and and a sort of acid blip from the Frequency Central Boing!

You get 4 channels of Pre-amp in this https://www.modulargrid.net/e/making-sound-machines-tausend-db

Have you emailed 2hp?
They are normally very helpful info@twohp.com

Cheers :)

very peaceful :)

It was a headphones thing this morning with a pair of AKG k175's that are pretty bassy, think I would have woke the wife! Thanks guys :)

Headphones recommended, but its all a bit hectic!

Weirdness, after watching a patch video by @Anthurium VCO's Noise, LFO's, I found to get some of the effect that Anthurium was getting I had to put the VCO signals through a pre-amp before mixing, then found that feeding the VCO's a negative offset to drive them slower than the knob settings.
Its all a bit gritty and mental to be honest!

The vid I was following

Not yet.... but I'll look into it

I find it generally a pain in the arse, I have to get the manual out almost every time I need to set a different mode! Not to mention the 0-4 parameter settings and a very 'techie' manual to confuse my tiny brain, it reads like algebra :)

Other opinions are available, and I wouldn't kick it out of my rack

Tune is handy.
Noise is good.
Stereo Tape Delay is rather good.
Anything from the Sample Player section.
Full wave rectifier is a good thing to have.
Slew rate limiter good to have.

Liking it, reminds me of stuff i'd be listening to in the 90's :)

That there is some lovely stuff :)

Oscillators, Noise and LFOs, filters and effects, lots of things feeding into other things and amounts of things fed around via the Matrix mixer.

Playing with the ideas found here by Anthurium

EDITED Feb 14th 2022, 22:25

I totally agree with @sweelinck :)

Lots O'Bleeps :)

Glitchy goodness, I need to try more stuff like this, almost self-playing as Marbles is in control until i plug in the clock outs from Mimeophon which then takes care of the clocking. More madness comes from live patching Clouds from the 2hp RND :)
There are some clocked parts in there but i turn those off as its running the stepped filtered bass part.

what exactly do you mean by 'get tonal rhythms out of euclidean circles'?

do you mean melody? - I'd suspect that is really bloody difficult considering that euclidean circles is a trigger sequencer and as such does not sequence pitch...

-- JimHowell1970

What Jim said ;-)

I do, you can, use Euclidean patterns to drive other things that create pitch.... send those Euclid triggers to an Arpeggiator or other pitch sequencer, even send them to a Turing machine + Quantizer or Marbles etc. You can dial in different patterns on the Euclidean or control those via CV for always evolving patterns.

I don't play with feedback enough, though i do like riding the Feedback on Clouds.

And cheers :)

EDITED Feb 3rd 2022, 07:48

Its definitely an interesting experiment. :)

Good stuff, glad to hear :)

You could test the ADSR by plugging in the Square Waveform from your LFO into the IN socket on your ADSR, the light should flash.
A - Set Fully left
D - Set half way
S - Set Half way
R - Set anywhere really but a Fully left will be fine

Make the LFO slow, fingers crossed the ADSR light flashes.

Marbles is playing the 2hp Bell (starts on 2hp Pluck, then I swap), that goes into Mimeophon, Marbles is being clocked by Mimeophon ;-)

Thanks, its been about documenting ideas before pulling all the plugs, I've just built the Winterbloom Castor & Pollux so wanted a clear rack for new noodling :)

Using the Joystick attached to Clouds V/oct and Feedback for the grungy sweeps from the Drips made with triggers fom the Befaco Burst pinging a filter, there there are a couple of Sine waves going into the Danny Sound Timbre which is fairly slowly modulated and heads into Mimeophon, the weird filter drone that is annoyingly panning around your head is two different mono filters.

Cheers for listening :)

I'm also in two minds about the Moonphase, though I think it takes a bit of learning and some careful tweaking to get the best out of it. It may get sold if I buy another Stereo filter, I do use my 3 other mono filters way more than the Moonphase and can make interesting Stereo (Dual Mono) effects with 2 mono filters. All that said, I sort of think if I did sell the Moonphase I would immediately find a use for it ;-)

You do realise that WD-40 is named as such as its 'Water Dispersal version 40' its made for dispersing water on your car with old-fashioned Points on the ignition system. Don't put that shit anywhere near a synth in my opinion!

Do it, go full on Freddy Mercury.... Embrace that duster, if it works, it works :) I use a clean paintbrush but cat hair is still tricky.

Btw, Don't use WD40

Great track there!!

Not to mention Cat hair, it clings to rubbery knobs!!

Your signal flow there is correct.

The VCA and Envelops are combined in the Patching Panda Punch and the Befaco Percall, you can build both from DIY kits if you don't mind a bit of soldering, the Punch is a very easy build.

I seem to recall someone on here recommending a https://www.modulargrid.net/e/4ms-company-percussion-interface and https://www.modulargrid.net/e/4ms-company-percussion-interface-expander which they said would like you turn an audio input into a modulation source, might be worth having a look at.

Nice work there :) Nice groove.

Thanks a lot guys :)

Thanks.... this one is something to play in the background and not think about :)

If this is what you mean, I've been doing the following:

Play any old Audio sample on loop via Disting (or other sample player, or any Audio input to be honest)

I'm using the Patching Panda Punch VCA which has its own decay envelops on its 2 Channels to create an evolving or changing percussion track which I've been triggering with Euclidean sequences which i can control via CV to that it changes over time.
Punch is a great little VCA with its Accent input too so you can get a groove pattern playing that too, it also has Envelop Outs with an Invert switch so you can send that to a Filter to further tweak your sound.

Punch also works great for Acid Synth lines.

I've also used my ALM PipSlope to make an AD envelope to do the same thing coupled with a regular VCA.

The other module i would recommend for this is the Befaco Percall, I don't own it but you can make anything into Percussion with that and it also has Choke so it will shut off the Open Hat with a Closed Hat etc.

As you say you could use an envelope follower which is listening to some other percussion track to get Triggers, gates and a Decay envelope out of it.

EDITED Jan 12th 2022, 07:57

First time I made my own kick from a VCO

Another really restrained piece, nice work, had to turn up the volume at about 10 mins for max effect :)

Thanks for watching :)

VCA - I quite fancy a https://www.modulargrid.net/e/worng-electronics-vertex to go with my Chainsaw, though I'm currently using the ST Modular SVCA though I find it all too easy to colour the sound with it and I get a better result using 2 channels of MI Veils.
I'm currently filtering with the Patching Panda Moonphase which is alright, I may get a DIY Stereo Ripples at some point or as others say the Dual Dagger maybe.

I'm just here to state the obvious... Hope you don't mind :)
You might not need to take up 8hp with Passive mults unless you really don't want to use Stackables or 0hp floating mults, I have 1x 4hp 4x4x4 Manhattan Analogue passive mult and thats usually more than I need.

At some point when I feel I can afford it I'll probably get Make Noise Morphagene, you can record stuff into it and mangle.

The Freeze Button on Clouds lets you scroll through the position of the grains its playing.

Make Noise Mimeophon lets you lock (Hold) a loop and move through the Delay knob settings which if Clocked you can use fragments of loops for interesting parts.

I quite fancy a 2hp Loop Sound On Sound Looper, or 2! They look interesting for recording stuff in and even 2x of them for sorta fake stereo is waaaay cheaper than a Morphagene. But obviously lots different

Part of me is thinking about getting an iPad and a Looper App too as overall cost is better than modules when you think what else you can do with an iPad.

I'm sure someone will know more about the Data bender.

EDITED Jan 3rd 2022, 09:19