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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

wishbonebrewery—you can download any video from your YouTube channel (Manage Videos or Channel Content)

Also, there are Apps (programs) to download from YouTube like 4K Video Downloader and Gihosoft TubeGet.

All the best.
-- cmb_

Found it, and I can split the Audio off in Sound Forge.

EDITED Jan 2nd 2022, 11:28

Happy New year.
I'm very sure the first thing I made was really simple and would have been a 2hp Pluck going through some Reverb and I was sending it Triggers from a Roland Boutique Sh-01, that made me happy though and look at the rack mess I'm in 2 years or so later :)
-- wishbonebrewery

Wait, does this mean brewing my own beer is the next step in modular? ;) Looks like a really nice mess that you have setup there. Interesting you're triggering from your SH-01...I'm sort of in a similar learning curve with sending and receiving stuff from modular to my Hydrasynth desktop

-- jb61264

I just realised, The TR-09 for Triggers, used to be hooked up via Midi to the SH-01 for Pitches and gates. I don't do that now but thats how I started out.

Happy New year.
I'm very sure the first thing I made was really simple and would have been a 2hp Pluck going through some Reverb and I was sending it Triggers from a Roland Boutique Sh-01, that made me happy though and look at the rack mess I'm in 2 years or so later :)

Hey, thanks....
I think this was more luck than planning, it was a case of a couple of Sine waves hitting a wave folder with plenty of modulation, then going through a filter with more modulation before going into Disting's Stereo Tape delay and and a heavily modulated Clouds, though then there are 2 other parts as well with everything coming from Marbles for control.

before you fry your machine with some malicious program, you can also try to pull the MP4 from youtube (in the videos settings when logged in) and then render only the audio with a program like Premiere Pro or even Blender (free, but a little weird for this task)

-- zuggamasta

I never realised you could do that, I did find a website that lets you paste in the video link to YT and then spits out an Mp3.

I've literally no saved files, might have to try a Youtube downloader thing.

Since live streaming I've not saved a single file! I'll have to try plugging the little Tascam recorder in!

What a lovely post to end the year on, I should have gone for 104hp to start with, I can see me being ahem 'finished' when I have about 18U of 104hp ;-)

I should add... All the best for 2022 & Happy New Year

EDITED Dec 30th 2021, 17:04

I'd let you have this but it was a live stream so I have no backup audio

Another one for the mix is 'Patching Panda Hatz' it has the all-important Choke so the CH will close-off out the OH, it also has accents so you can run an accent pattern behind your main Hat patterns and make your hats more interesting.

I have a https://www.modulargrid.net/e/ladik-e-510-envelope-follower which gives Trigger, Gate and Envelope. I recently used some filtered noise (a crackle type sound) to trigger and run an entire patch. If you happen to have any Piezo contact Mics they can also be used with an envelope follower, at its most simple just tapping on a Mic via the Ladik E-510 can be used to affect the modulation of something else via its envelope. All good fun.

Grab a Mutable Instruments Ears for a bit of Mic-Pre-amp and envelope follower in one.

if you fancy something at a good price and DIY then try
https://www.modulargrid.net/e/ai-synthesis-ai008-eurorack-matrix-mixer
Good for signal routing, modulation, effects sends etc

Live streaming now

Set up so it has quite a large loop which subtly varies, I need more VCAs!